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Buffalo’s Best Batman (Buffalo, NY)

Causeplayer
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@CosplayRepairMedic (Pittsburgh, PA)

Cosplay Repair
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@blueclarice (Pennsylvania)

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Jeremy Fisher (Los Angeles, CA)

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Scrapper Costuming (New York CIty)

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TrisRex (Chicago, IL)

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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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Giggle Maker Cosplay (Atlanta, GA)

Personal Stories
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Delta Major (New York City, NY)

Personal Stories
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Project A-kon 1990 – Jack Thielepape

GeoCities
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Caroline & MoIses (Los Angeles, CA)

Personal Stories

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…

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Advice for Cosplaying (2004)

Essays

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…

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A Brief History of the rec.arts.anime newsgroup 

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Josh & Sheena (Christiana, TN)

Personal Stories

Fashion and style, glamour, glitz aand Gamilons? Obviously these are not the runways of Paris, the pageant that we’re describing is the fantastic world of COSPLAY. Cosplay is an abbreviation of the words costume…

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Cosplay in the United States (1995)

Essays
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@alia_vera

Personal Stories
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Mike and Carol Resnick

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TrinityRen (Denver, CO)

Personal Stories

I was pleasantly surprised today to find out I made About.com/Manga’s list for 2010. Really surprised in fact. I never though my book would be mention on…

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About.com/Manga’s List for 2010

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My Costume, Myself: Celebrating Stories of Cosplay and Beyond 

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