My final convention look of the year continuously is the spectacular GalaxyCon Columbus at the Better Columbus Convention Center from December 1 thru 3. Event hours: Friday 2 pm to 2 am, Saturday 10 am to 2 am and Sunday 10 am to 8 pm. Exhibition hall hours: Friday 2 pm to 8 pm, Saturday 10 am to 8 pm and Sunday 10 am to 6 pm. Wow, there’s lots going on that weekend.
There are hundreds of company: celebrities, notify actors, featured comics creators, literary & industry company, entertainment company, pro wrestlers, cosplay company and fan groups. I’ll mention a dozen or so of them and then will let you peep out others on the convention’s net put.
Here we high-tail: Grant Gustin, Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, William Shatner, Paula Abdul, Ron Perlman, Giancarlo Esposito, Sean Gunn, Jonathan Frakes, Denise Crosby, Brent Spiner, Barry Bostwick, Pete Rose, Tara Solid, Steve Englehart, Ron Marz, Ann Nocenti, Steve Orlando, Bob McLeod, Bob Hall, John Jackson Miller, Dan Jurgens, Mike DeCarlo, Kami Garcia, Joe Wos, Hazel Honeysuckle, Mick Foley, Sgt, Slaughter, Rubber City Cosplay and lots more. This isn’t even my entire checklist of company I’m hoping to no lower than say hey to for the interval of this extraordinary occasion.
I’m going to be doing one thing diverse at this convention. I am no longer going to be in the back of my customer table the entire time. I could put up the instances I could be there. My scheme right here is to be ready to chat over with with among the various company and store among the moderately lots of stunning vendors at the convention.
When I am at my table, I could be signing Isabella items for a mere ten bucks per signature. That label will almost indubitably high-tail up in 2024. I procure to aquire a ton of comics and magazines baggage and boards for my Enormous Accumulation of Stuff.
I could be bringing three peculiar items to promote. I could procure that minute edition reprint of the first Misty Knight look, excellent accessible from me or on the secondary market. I could some copies of July 1963: A Pivotal Month in the Humorous-E-book Lifetime of Tony Isabella Quantity One. Finally, I’ll procure my special Wonder Monsters poster. Drawn by Dan Gorman, it facets the entire predominant Wonder monsters I worked on in the Nineteen Seventies. Cash excellent.
I’ll be acting on three panels for the interval of GalaxyCon. On Friday, at 7:15 pm, I’ll be on a Retrospective on the Mid-Ohio-Con panel. On Saturday at 7 pm, I’ll be on the Fright in Comics panel. Finally, on Sunday at 3:forty five pm, I’ll be on a panel titled The Penance Stare: Ghost Rider in the Comics.
At some stage in the convention, I will form myself accessible for interviews, podcasts and diverse media. I am additionally drawn to talking to other folks who could are looking to rent or associate with me on a quantity of endeavors from comic books to magazines to movies and more. If truth be told, I feel the solid desire and procure to became an reliable member of SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild.
I’d additionally be drawn to invitations to procure a study comics and diverse conventions, or to talk at libraries and colleges. Those baggage and boards aren’t going to aquire themselves.
In stammer for you to situation up a explicit time to meet with me, email me. I’ll operate my excellent to accommodate you.
COSPLAYERS: If which you may even very effectively be cosplaying characters I’ve created or procure written, I’d love to bag photos of you and with you.
For these of you with more flexible budgets than me, GalaxyCon is hosting a diversity of after darkish occasions. Even supposing a “comics legend” love me needs his elegance sleep, I’ll strive to form an study the Hyatt’s terrific bar and at any parties to which I am invited. I’ll high-tail where the fun is.
I maintain the above covers as remarkable as I will duvet about a convention as massive as GalaxyCon. I’m hoping I bag to seem you there.
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