Essays
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Advice for Cosplaying (2004)
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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 group on the…
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How The Cartoon/Fantasy Organization – torchbearers of anime in America in the 80s – was brought down
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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 read and comment…
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Cosplay: The Illegitimate Child of SF Masquerades
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by Michael Bruno The most enlightening panel of the entire convention turned out to be not what I was really expecting. During the “Cosplay Roundtable” panel at Nan Desu…
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Anime Weekend Atlanta 2023: Farewell to the Cobb Galleria
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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…
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Costuming a World Apart: Cosplay in America and Japan
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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 differences. The inherent…
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A Brief History of the rec.arts.anime newsgroup
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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 the time, I…