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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
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Steffanie (Ashburn, VA)

Cosplay Repair
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Miss Relena  & Angelic Threads (Hurricane, UT & Las Vegas, NV)

Personal Stories

by Tom Croom. Originally posted June 15, 2020 “Leeroy Jenkins!” For those of you unfamiliar with term, there’s a popular online video that shows a group of players…

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Florida attempted a small pop culture event last weekend and it went exactly as you would expect. Because Florida.

Covid

By Sy Sable On 4/4/2020, Sy Sable (Mark Merlino) sent this brief history of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization, founded in 1977. His story comes from recent message…

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A brief history of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization, America’s first anime fan club

Essays
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Camille (Los Angeles, CA)

Personal Stories
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MelPool (Washington DC)

Personal Stories

During the peak of the pandemic, my congoing went down to attending no in-person cons but I continued to attend virtual cons. However, the virtual cons…

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Blue.Eyed Cosplay

Covid
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Babychwan (Anaheim, CA)

Personal Stories

To be honest, the pandemic has truly affected my going to conventions. I have a disease in which affects my blood vessels located in the brain…

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Spidereyezzcos

Covid
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Marc Kandel (NEW YORK)

Causeplayer

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…

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Comic Cons “Return” in the U.S. and a surprise appearance by that Vic guy.

Covid

I started a huge project at the beginning of lockdown, and I used its completion as incentive to get back into competing as the world began…

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faerie_fingers

Covid
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Lindsay (Chicago, IL)

Personal Stories
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Amanda Werner

Personal Stories
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Scrapper Costuming (New York)

Personal Stories
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Fallen Feathers Cosplay (Ooltewah, TN)

Personal Stories
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ConnArtistry cosplay (Anchorage, AK)

Personal Stories
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KAYE COSPLAY (Orlando, FL)

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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