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Josh & Sheena (Christiana, TN)
We met in high school and started dating. I used to carry a DragonBallZ notebook. I had about three or four hundred DragonBall Z pictures in it. Her being an anime fan, it pulled her right over.. We did our honeymoon at Anime South 2009 What makes or breaks any con is the people .I…
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PAUL VARTA
At first I feel like it was the only one, or at least the only prominent one, then at various times various groups sprang off of it. once it became a little easier to create groups on Yahoo groups there were all sorts of Cosplay groups, like I was in one that was specifically just…
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Melissa (LouiSville, KY)
I remember sometimes having to doom scroll thru messages because if something was a hot topic multiple people would be emailing at the same time so would have several different conversations going on with the same header title. After cosplay.com started in 2001/2002? the COSP traffic died way down as it was so much easier to read…
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Superman (2012)
“That’s pretty much what superheroes are: a symbol of hope for society,” Christopher Dennis says. “When I’m out there on Hollywood, I’m portraying the character of Superman … that’s kind of what our job is — to get out of ourselves and become someone else. And you know, I love doing that.” A film by Drea…
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Jez Roth (Las Vegas, NV)
I opened up the School of Cosplay in November of 2019, right before covid. And I wanted to open this because I’ve been cosplaying since I was 13 and when we started out back, then there were no tutorials. There was nothing to help us and it was very much a desert of any type…
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Steffanie (Ashburn, VA)
Photo: @Zarf_ I’ve only been doing cosplay for about 2 years. But in that short time, it’s become a major part of my life. My first con was MAGFest – which I will be attending again this coming January. I will be attending Katsucon again in February. When I first decided to go, I knew I…
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Assist Wigs (Los Angeles, CA)
So the Assist Cosplay story started 30 years ago in 1992 with a company called NII, which stands for Nothing Is Impossible. They are a Japanese anime good’s brand who started exploring cosplay goods in 2006. At that time there was a cosplayer on the staff who was basically overseeing the production of the cosplay…
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Katsucon 1999 – Convention Records
Well, Katsucon was a real blast, although smaller than last year’s Otakon. By the way, I don’t have any pictures for Otakon ’98 because I prematurely exposed my film in a fit of rage when the camera decided to sneeze and cough instead of taking photos. Anyway, Katsucon was an awesome time (I still can’t…
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Rick Prince (Nashville, TN)
[Face Off has] been an absolute and incredible ride. Over the arc of the past year, things have been really moving in leaps and bounds, for me. It’s been like a rocket-rollercoaster ride, straight to the top. Depending on how you perceive the show, straight off the tracks and all that kind of stuff. I…
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Brandon Freels
I will say that there were many things about the [A-Kon 1991] convention that I didn’t like, but those didn’t stop me from having fun. I had a good time, but it seems that the times I enjoyed the most was NOT WITH CONVENTION ACTIVITIES. An example of this was the ICE FIGHT out in the hotel…