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Toni Darling (Phoenix, AZ)

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

By Takahashi Nobuyuki The word “Cosplay” spread from a magazine called “My Anime.” During the 1970’s manga clubs and movie clubs were very popular among college…

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30th Anniversary of Cosplay

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Punished Props (Seattle, WA)

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ventuswentus

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@sweetieplague (Chicago, IL)

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Fanatic Wars

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Stephen (UTAH)

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Austin Cosplay Swap Meet #2

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Masquerade : The Magazine of Science Fiction Costuming

Books

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

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)

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Steffanie (Ashburn, VA)

Cosplay Repair
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The gazebo does not care…

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Kendra (Whitewater, WI)

Personal Stories

I remember sometimes having to doom scroll thru messages because if something was a hot topic multiple people would be emailing at the same time so…

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Melissa (Louisville, KY)

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Nicole (Houston, TX)

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

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Chip (CHicago, IL)

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Scrapper Costuming (New York CIty)

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