Cosplay in America is a crowd-sourced virtual archive that aims to preserve cosplay and fandom convention history from 1980s-2020s.
Written : Zippy / photo: Uniquely Similar Photography ) If you’ve ever seen a convention goer with a sign that says ‘cosplay medic’ or ‘cosplay repairs’, then you have seen a con medic at work. Russell Thorne is one such cosplay medic, and he’s been a part of a growing presence at DragonCon, the Southeast’s…
By Zippy
Not all heroes wear capes; however, in the appropriately comic book sounding League City, Texas, there’s one hero who certainly does, and his good deeds are getting noticed. That hero is Dash Gordon, alter-ego of gregarious, family man Timothy Glover, whose early attempts to connect with his community while DoorDashing morphed into a life of its own.
The photos were taken at the 1977 Halloween party that was hosted by the University of Maryland Association of Star Trek (UMAST). I was a 16-year-old high school student in Maryland, and UMAST was the local Star Trek group that held the Trek convention called The August Party (starting with my very first convention, in August of 1975)…. From that point on I mainly ran costume competitions at various East Coast Star Trek and media cons, and my own costuming was just for fun.