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Helen McCarthy (UK)
(Transcript of original audio interview we recorded at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2010 that aired on the Tokyo Tower Show that same year.) Zippy: We get the pleasure now to speak to the lovely Helen McCarthy, who is gracing us with her presence. [She’s] been pretty busy at the convention so far. You’ve been to AWA…
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NegativeDreamer (Orlando, FL)
I got into cosplay a bit later than most… 28 years old. I always was into Halloween my whole life, and as I got older I tended to keep upping myself from the previous year. Eventually I went way overboard and put way to much money and time into a costume just to wear it…
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Lisa Lake (Atlanta, GA)
Photo: shotbyryandee I am an African American cosplayer and there is very little African American representation in certain genres, so I love to take well known characters and add my own cultural influence. It means a lot to me to have opportunities to show that cosplay can be inclusive and have diversity and that you…
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Regina (Portland, OR)
When I started getting interested in cosplay and costuming, I had absolutely no knowledge of sewing or fabric! I remember going to @FabricDepot in Portland for the first time with my mom (because she had told me all about it!) and I was so overwhelmed. It’s basically Home Depot for sewing–and it lives up to its name.…
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@Houston_Fisk (Houston, TX)
Alrighty so here’s my story. Dallas Comic Con . This was my first con to ever attend and I didn’t want to do cosplay at the time, because I was 16 years old and thought grown people dressing up for these events was absurd. Boy how wrong I was! I was hooked after that day.…
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Phaleure Cosplay (Columbia, MD)
We are all pretty local to each other so we do it quite often at least once or twice before each major con. If we can’t meet in person we do Google hangouts. It’s much more motivating to cosplay on groups because if you are in a slump the progress of your pals could inspire…
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@DraconPern (San Antonio, TX)
It started probably back in 2006 or 2007. You get bored and you look online for anime-related stuff and by chance I see these characters, these photos online. It wasn’t even that popular in Japan at that time, there was only a few sites where people posted photos and that is how I first found…
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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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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…
