Pensacon 2025 is nigh! I missed last year’s show due to illness, but I’m excited to be back this year. It’s my favorite event of the year every year. From the Pensacon website, here’s what you need to know:
Pensacon 2025 will take place from Friday, Feb. 14 to Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. The primary convention venue, the Pensacola Bay Center, is where ticketing, celebrity autographs and photo ops, and the vendor floor will be located. Our other official venue is the First United Methodist Church of Pensacola. Most official events and activities will take place from 1-7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday.
I’ll be there all three days. You can find me on he third floor of the 0Center at N21, between Roland Paris and Rhiannon Owens. As will be the case at almost all of my appearances this year, I’ll be presenting as Tony Isabella because I figure that’s who the fans want to see and to sign their Isabella-written comics. The charge for signatures remains $10 per item.
In addition to signing stuff, I will have two exclusive items for sale. The first is a limited edition Tigra poster by my good friend Jay E. Fife. The prints are $30 each.
The other item: the signed and numbered exclusive-to-me reprint of the first appearance of Misty Knight. Only 1500 of these were printed as part of the special deal between Marvel and me. For $10, you get an exclusive comic book AND my signature. That’s a pretty great deal if I say so myself and, obviously I do say so myself.
Now that the business end of today’s bloggy thing is over, let’s talk about the amazing Pensacon guest list.
Artists and Writers: Andy Price, Arthur Suydam, Bill Morrison, Bill Reinhold, Brian LeBlanc, Christpher Burdett, Dave Dorman, Derec Donovan, Guy Gilchrist, Jim Califiore, John Dell, Larry Hama, Lily Butler, Linda Lessman Reinhold, Mark Maddox, Matt Lindham, Michael Golden, Mike Baron, Mitch Byrd, Pat Broderick, Rhiannon Owens, Robert Pope, Roland Paris, Steven Butler, Timonty Zahn, Thom Zahler and me.
Media guests (and forgive me for not listing all of them): Alex Kingston, Angie Harman, Emily Swallow, Hayley Mills, Jeffrey Combes, John Wesley Shipp, Jonathan Frakes, Julie Brown, Lou Diamond Phillips, Mindy Sterling, Phil Morris, Ray Wise, Richard Kern and many others.
Pensacon will also have a great many panels, photo ops, gaming, stage performances, local partner events, a film festival and a giant vendors area. To get all the details, you should visit the Pensacon website or download the Pensacon app on your phone. I’m too much of an unfrozen comic-book writer cavewoman to do the app thing, but that’s why I have children.
Pensacola is a lovely city. If you’re flying to the show, you’ll be landing at the Pensacola Intergalactic Airport, temporarily renamed for the convention. Indeed, all the airport gates will be labeled star gates.
Many of the excellent restaurants in the city will adopt themes related to the convention or offer specialty drinks related to the convention. Maybe one of them will offer a Black Lightning, a Misty Knight or a Tigra.
The fans at the convention and the people of Pensacola are among the nicest people you will ever meet. Maybe the only people who are nicer are the Pensacon promoters, staff and volunteers. It’s a magical experience each and every year.
I hope a lot of you will visit me at my booth. Even if you don’t have anything for me to sign or anything you want to buy from me. I’m happy just to answer your questions about my career and chat with me about this and that. Pensacon gives so much to me and I love to pay that forward.
That’s all for today. I’ll be back soon with more stuff.
© 2025 Tony Isabella
I look at the guest list and know I'll not be invited, which is the only way I can afford to go, so I am a little envious of you, but I don't begrudge it, you earned your way.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a superfantastic time there and at all your conventions. I lived in Central Florida for years and this is about the best time to go, as you're surely aware.
Roch and Roll, Jenny!
When are you going to go into your transition?
ReplyDeleteHi Tony/Jenny, I just read at Mark Evanier's site that you are now Jenny? Thought I'd write and wish you best wishes for whatever you're going through. I know you're a beautiful soul and it matters not what sex you are.
ReplyDeleteI will share with you some personal info about myself which I don't expect you to publish, but it's okay if you choose to. I've been hetero my whole life but God (and my sick, twisted mother) made me unattractive to women. So, other than a few brief encounters, I've been deprived of sex, starved for sex, my entire life.
This is something I've never told anyone. Last year a man surprised me by exposing his erection to me. I was desperate for sexual connection with another human being, and I surprised MYSELF by dropping to my knees.
I'm not going to mince words. I sucked his dick. While I was experiencing my first taste of homosexuality (pun intended) I cried. I cried because I was betraying the sexual mores I was raised to believe, I cried because of my shame, and I cried because I enjoyed it very much.
What I learned from it was that society has taught us all a bunch of lies about sex, and that there's nothing inherently wrong or sick or evil about homosexuality. It was quite liberating.
I'm still hetero. I doubt I will ever have romantic feelings for a man (such as kissing, snuggling, sending flowers, etc.). But since women don't want me, I am ready and willing to devote myself to the art of dicksucking.
Please forgive my language, an attempt to be blatantly honest. I offer my story as encouragement for you to be whoever you are. Wishing you love and all the best in your future!