Kryten (California)
Sure, well the reason I picked the Doctor was pretty much when I was in college a friend of mine introduced me to the TV show Doctor Who. I watched all the new series as well as parts of the new...
View ArticleNikki Moxxi (Orange County, CA)
I was running out of time to create my Anime Expo cosplays (one week before con!) And I knew I wanted to do something challenging but manageable. I remembered that Monster Musume has a bunch of...
View ArticleOtakon 1999 – DTY
Photographer : DTY Email : Dty@linainverse.com Result : Domain does not exist. Link : https://www.oocities.org/tokyo/island/6473/otakon/dty/ Recovered Jan. 9 2024 If you have information, contact us at...
View ArticleKelsey (Atlanta, GA)
Since it’s a local landmark, people from out of town didn’t understand it – they just stared in confusion. But Atlanta locals LOVED IT! I’d hear people scream “OMG, THE BIG CHICKEN!!” and they were...
View ArticleGiggle Maker Cosplay (Atlanta, GA)
I am a big proponent of women owning their own power and Dessi Desu’s designs really encapsulate that idea. I loved that she captured the power of Wonder Woman without yielding any femininity; too...
View ArticleXander (Austin, TX)
Photo: Kevin Lillard. It was sometime in the very early 2000s, probably 2000 or 2001. I discovered the website A Fan’s View run by Kevin Lillard. He went to many, many conventions and took pictures of...
View ArticleNicole (Houston, TX)
The online cosplay contest are scary to me. They [the judges] do not see all the details or hand stitched parts you have done. All you can do it describe it and hope they can see it in the photo if...
View ArticleKatana Cosplay (Reno, NV)
I (Kate) am the one who manages the accounts and does most of the cosplay work. Nana is there for support and helping me figure things out, and of course is a great model. We didn’t actually meet...
View ArticleLady AVA Designs (Baltimore, MD)
I stumbled upon Otakon 2001 through an ad in Animerica Magazine. With anticipation and a lot of begging, I convinced my parents to embark on this anime-filled adventure. Little did I know that this...
View ArticleAnime Expo 2001 – Zranachan
Photographer : Zranachan Email : Result : Link : https://www.oocities.org/zranachan/cosplay/ax01/ Recovered Jan. 26 2024 The post Anime Expo 2001 – Zranachan first appeared on COSPLAY IN AMERICA.
View ArticleHow 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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