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For those new to Cosplay Contests by Ryk E. Spoor For a few years, my wife Kathleen and I were part of the most infamous cosplay…
By Sy Sable On 4/4/2020, Sy Sable (Mark Merlino) sent this brief history of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization, founded in 1977. His story comes from recent message…
By Alan Takashita Life before r.a.a.——————Well, frankly, people mostly just didn’t talk much about anime.This was the time period where Robotech was the big anime-related thing. At…
Fashion and style, glamour, glitz aand Gamilons? Obviously these are not the runways of Paris, the pageant that we’re describing is the fantastic world of COSPLAY. Cosplay is an abbreviation of the words costume…
By Takahashi Nobuyuki The word “Cosplay” spread from a magazine called “My Anime.” During the 1970’s manga clubs and movie clubs were very popular among college…
By Infinitus_Potentia (Reddit) I’ve been making a list of notable people who had a hand in shaping the American anime fandom before 2000 (which you can…
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…
By vfxart Let me go back to 1975 or so, yeah my fandom started then. I was early school-age, but grabbed easily. 😉 But first, and…
by Michael Bruno Even though the art of Cosplay in Japan is based on SF costuming in America, there are only a few similarities and many…
by Carol Resnick I don’t know why other people go into costuming, but to me it is the thrill of visualizing a costume (or a presentation,…
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…
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…
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? …
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By Ger Tysk Breaking All The Rules: Cosplay and the Art of Self-Expression is a photobook project documenting the culture of fan costuming, known in most circles…