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Nick Yarian (Eagle River, AK)

Personal Stories

Masquerade: This is part of a longer post called “How I Spent My Summer Vacation, Part II” posted on Rec.Arts.Anime on July 9, 1993

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Enrique Conty (Anime Expo 1993)

Masquerade / Cosplay Contest
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Trap Sushi (Atlanta, GA)

Personal Stories
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Babychwan (Anaheim, CA)

Personal Stories

I’m bracing for myself for a very busy few months…. You see, Anime Central is next weekend and I’ll be there with Epic Cosplay wigs in…

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Summer Cons

Blog

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
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Sheik (San Francisco, CA)

Personal Stories

G’day, I’m Kirilee cosplay, I’m a cosplayer based in Perth, in Western Australia. And at the end of last year, I had the absolutely amazing opportunity…

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Kirilee Cosplay (Australia)

Audio
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@Houston_Fisk (Houston, TX)

Personal Stories
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CosCove’s Creators Mengshu and Sherri on Building a Haven for Cosplayers, Makers, and Artists

Personal Stories

Animation that’s for adults only By Kathleen DonnellyMercury News Entertainment Writer IF THE turnout at AnimeCon – a convention for fans of Japaneseanimation – is an…

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Kathleen Donnelly, Mercury News

Convention Report
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My Costume, Myself: Celebrating Stories of Cosplay and Beyond 

Books
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Garrett (Los Angeles, CA)

Personal Stories
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Anime Expo 2001 – Zranachan

GeoCities

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…

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Anime in America : A Personal Account

Essays

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…

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Costuming a World Apart: Cosplay in America and Japan

Essays
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Chunky Cosplay (Anchorage, AK)

Personal Stories
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CaffEineCraft & Setterspecs (Chicago, IL)

Personal Stories

It’s made a big difference. I spend more time on my projects and am overall less motivated to crunch. I build less for other people than…

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Veijanikita

Covid
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@Wasted_Fett (Las Vegas, NV)

Personal Stories
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