A Fandom MEMORY PROJECT
Cosplay in America
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CosCove’s Creators Mengshu and Sherri on Building a Haven for Cosplayers, Makers, and Artists
Over the past four years, CosCove has grown from a simple idea into a thriving marketplace for cosplay resales, a networking hub for cosplay commissions, a convention directory, and a thriving cosplay community. This success stems from the vision and dedication of its founders, CEO Mengshu Shen and Sherri Cui—high school friends who teamed up…
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To 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 conceal. What history, what personality, what kind of life are they trying to escape? What are they hiding…
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There is nothing ordinary about cosplay
By Greyrondo There is nothing ordinary about cosplay. Whether it’s the character’s personality or the costume, the end result is always larger than life—not that cosplayers would ever have it any other way. But both the inspiring art and the craft behind cosplay are neither solely historical costuming nor modern fashion: cosplay is the fusion…
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Anime Weekend Atlanta 2023: Farewell to the Cobb Galleria
After visiting my first anime convention in my final months of college in March 2007, DaigaCon in Bowling Green, Kentucky, I knew I needed to seek out more conventions to feed my burgeoning love of anime and the fan community. This led me to wake up my sister super early on September 22nd, 2007 to…
DASH GORDON (LEAGUE CITY, TX)
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.
T.J BURNSIDE CLAPP (ARLINGTON, VA)
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.
