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Brian Flynn
The early anime cons (A-kon, Anime con’91, Anime expo’92) were all about the experience, because it was new for everyone. From finding new merch that you had never seen before, getting to know new people by posting, or answering a flier on the bulletin board in the hotel lobby looking to trade tapes. Making fun…
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Volpin Props (Atlanta,GA)
In 2013 as part of the second book, I flew to Atlanta to visit cosplayers including Harrison Krix of Volpin Props. He had gain some attention for the Big Sister costume and the Daft Punk helmet. He was still working out of his garage at this time. It began in October of 2007 – my…
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Kendra (Whitewater, WI)
Deadpool was one of the first comic book characters that I really connected with. The humor and antics were so funny, and it’s one of the only comic series that I collect. Well, I stumbled across the alternate universe timeline and that’s when I first saw Lady Deadpool, who’s just as awesome and badass! This…
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CosplayGen
Title: CosplayGen Publisher: Otaku Entertainment First Issue: 2010 Number of Issues 9 Years 2010-2018 Country / language Romania, English DETAILS Cosplay Gen(eration), a project brought by the Otaku Magazine team, is an independent magazine (no ADS) focused on the worldwide promoting of cosplayers and of various Japanese fashion trends. The 72 pages of the magazine will include…
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Rachel (New Orleans, LA)
When I first started cosplaying was a silly thing and only thought you could dress up on Halloween. After a few years of myself cosplaying, I told my mom that she should try it out with me for Halloween at least. We made her an Ursula cosplay from Disney’s The Little Mermaid and she suggested…
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Comic Cons “Return” in the U.S. and a surprise appearance by that Vic guy.
By Tom Croom Originally posted July 20, 2020 Three weekend long pop culture events decided to move forward in the United States in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic last weekend. Similar to the conversations that were sparked when theme parks in Florida opened again, the questions of “could” and “should” are happening all over social…
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The gazebo does not care…
For a time there were parody social media accounts for the Katsucon Gazebo and Fanime Turd but those accounts have long gone.
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TRICON 1966
Last year, I stumbled upon a Jay Kay Klein’s photos of the 24th World-con held in Cleveland in 1966.Jay Kay Klein photographs and papers on science fiction fandom collection at the University of California-Riverside contains close to 65,000 negatives donated by Klein before his death in 2012. Around 6,000 are available to view online, Listed…