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Regina (Portland, OR)

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OYIMI Cosplay (Seattle, WA)

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Damon & Yancey (Minneapolis, MN) 

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Ted (Los Angeles, CA)

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NegativeDreamer (Orlando, FL)

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@CosplayRepairMedic (Pittsburgh, PA)

Cosplay Repair

Jordan Renner co-director of this latest documentary talks aobut the 7 years journey to bring this film to the big screen, We had made these two…

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Cosplay Universe (2022)

Documentary

(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…

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Helen McCarthy (UK)

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…

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TRICON 1966

Convention Report
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Superman (2012)

Documentary

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…

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PAUL VARTA

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,…

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Some Thoughts on Costuming

Essays

By Audrey Cleo Yap Every summer, some 130,000 attendees gather in San Diego for Comic-Conto celebrate entertainment, fandom and geek culture. Amy Vaughn had hoped to be one…

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‘I Love Cosplay, But I Also Like Living’: Cosplayers in the Age of COVID-19

Covid

I believe it was Anime Los Angeles 2017 when I met Alify Nasution or better known as Alive Alf. I remember this because he had a portfolio book…

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Alive Alf

Personal Stories
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Bryan Morton (Los Angeles,CA)

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ventuswentus

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Patience (Anchorage, AK)

Personal Stories

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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To Be Others is to be more like ourselves

Essays
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TrisRex (Chicago, IL)

Audio

Judges panel from left (seated front row): Fred Patten, Frederik Pohl, Carol Pohl, Joni Stopa, Jon Stopa, and unidentified man. George Scithers seated on stage with…

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Tricon 1966 Masquerade

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