Sergeant Slaughter is about to punch Cobra Commander cosplayer in a pantomime behind his table at JoeFest2025 June 21, 2025. Ron Baxley Jr./Augusta Good News
Sergeant Slaughter is about to punch Cobra Commander cosplayer in a pantomime behind his table at JoeFest2025 June 21, 2025. Ron Baxley Jr./Augusta Good News

In pictures: JoeFest 2025

June 21, 2025·Ron Baxley Jr.·1 Comment

Record crowds visited the annual JoeFest 2025.

Read more about the annual toy and comic convention here.

John Anderson, from “Stranger Things and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 speaks with Jon O cosplaying as Blizzard from GI Joe at Joe Fest June 21, 2025. Ron Baxley Jr./Augusta Good News
Samantha Newark voice actress for Jem signs a Jem doll at JoeFest2025 on June 21, 2025. Ron Baxley Jr./Augusta Good News
GI Joe fan and celebrity actor Seth Green, cocreator of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios shoots some targets for prizes at Finesta GI Joe Club table at JoeFest June 21, 2025. Ron Baxley Jr./Augusta Good News
Brian Cummings voice actor for “The Berenstain Bears” and many cartoon franchises was at JoeFest2025 June 21, 2025. Ron Baxley Jr./Augusta Good News
Carolyn Rushbrook sells her husband Michael’s Phantom Comics and Travis Hollaway (front) and Darryl Kevin Ware (back) show off The Brothers of Justice collaboration with Michael Rushbrook at JoeFest 2025 Saturday. Ron Baxley Jr./Augusta Good News
Jason Crosby sits beside one of his “Madballs vs Garbage Pail Kid” Comics while drawing a commission at JoeFest June 21, 2025. Ron Baxley Jr./Augusta Good News
Seth Green (front) and John Harvetine IV (back) co-owners of Stoopid Buddy Studios visit JoeFest June 21, 2025. Ron Baxley Jr./Augusta Good News
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Barnwell, S.C. author Ron Baxley, Jr. is a social media manager for Paula’s Family Restaurant in Bamberg, South Carolina, a correspondent for Augusta Good News, and a graphic novelist and screenwriter who is currently writing a series set in a small Southern town which he has codenamed “Project Neon.”

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One response to “In pictures: JoeFest 2025”

  1. James Holliday says:
    June 23, 2025 at 9:28 am

    I was there Cobra Commander cosplayer.
    #captainfettcosplay

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