How Cosplay Can Change Lives
By: Liz Ohanesian Ginger Burton remembers the first anime convention she attended. It was Anime Expo back in 2007. While Burton knew about anime, she was unfamiliar with cosplay. Cosplay is when...
View ArticleFallen Feathers Cosplay (Ooltewah, TN)
Been cosplaying since 2001, but I personally haven’t been sewing until 2011. I’ve always loved Halloween and to have a hobby where I can actually dress up on a daily basis – c’mon! How could I say...
View ArticleKnightmaGe (Youngstown, OH)
’ve always loved Spawn as a character but loved his design even more. It took me about 15 hours total to complete. It’s also the first suit that I completely sewn myself so I’m proud of that. For...
View ArticleJeff & Elizabeth, (Minnesota, MN)
Earlier in my life as a teenager I observed that as the people around me aged they seemed to stop in place and tended to dwell more and more in the past. Perhaps this is a natural (or at least typical)...
View ArticleBryan Morton (Los Angeles,CA)
“Why Superman? He represents a person trying to live up to the best potential of himself he can be. He has so much power to do whatever he wants, but he chooses to help everyone.” The post Bryan...
View ArticleLindsay (Chicago, IL)
“As for my best con experience, it has to be at SDCC 2013. I ran into the producers of Tron: Legacy. They were so incredibly excited to see me and the costume. They got pictures with me, and spoke with...
View ArticleYaya Han (Atlanta, GA)
“When I quit my job to open a costume commission business in 2005, I took the leap to making cosplay my only source of income. Since then my business has slowly, painfully, amazingly developed into a...
View ArticleSterling & Gretchen (Kansas City, MO)
“One year there was an evangelist preaching outside to all us con-goers telling us what we were doing was sinful, and a bunch of cosplayers went up and gave him hugs. Well, they tried to. He wasn’t...
View ArticleTo Be Others is to be more like ourselves
By Andrea Letamendi. Why might a person want to become someone else? What would compel them to put on a costume and assume a different identity? We might ask what flaws or deficits they are trying to...
View ArticleThe Whole Costumer’s Catalogue : A Review
By Alessandra Listen up, children. Once upon a time there was no such thing as the Internet. In those dark days we had to scrape and scrounge what information we could find wherever we could find it:...
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