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Dragon Con Cosplay Medics (Atlanta, GA)
Written : Zippy / photo: Uniquely Similar Photography ) If you’ve ever seen a convention goer with a sign that says ‘cosplay medic’ or ‘cosplay repairs’, then you have seen a con medic at work. Russell Thorne is one such cosplay medic, and he’s been a part of a growing presence at DragonCon, the Southeast’s…
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A7L Props (Huntsville, AL)
Written : Zippy Wayne Neumaier (A7L Props), a cosplayer, teacher, cancer survivor, and a veritable rocket scientist by day, had just seen the announcement of the Artemis II crew, the second scheduled mission of NASA’s Artemis program and the first scheduled crewed mission of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, within an hour or more prior to our…
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@samurairocker55 (Los Angeles, CA)
It was 2002 and I just finished the first Devil May Cry video game. I had a black leather jacket, some toy guns and this huge sword so I went into my backyard, took some action photos of myself doing some poses and send the photos to my friend. “If I didn’t know any better,…
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@sweetieplague (Chicago, IL)
The idea to cosplay as the C2E2 sign has been in the making for around 4 years now. I was previously inspired to think outside the box by creators like @vj_daguru, who is the mastermind that cosplayed the ACen Hyatt statue as well as the person who cosplayed the Javits Center. Absolute legends! That had…
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Clinton (Owasso, OK)
I’ve always been a big fan of superheroes and I have a big fondness for a lot of the classics, especially Golden Age (1940s) versions. A friend and I had worked out to be Flashes together. I was going to be the classic Jay Garrick Flash and she was going to be Kid Flash (Wally…
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@FernsideDragons (Seattle, WA)
CIA What inspired the Nyan cat? MEGAN I have loved Nyan cat ever since I first watched the video in April 2011. Nyan cat has always brought me joy in the times when I needed it most. So, for years I have wanted to create a Nyan cat cosplay, but none of my previous ideas…
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Rethink Cosplay (New York, NY)
Written : Zippy / Photo : Felix Wong Ariel Krupnik, aka Rethink Cosplay, creates elaborate and unique cosplays that not only make you do a double take in person but also often go viral. Most recently Krupnik’s floating Dr. Strange cosplay, complete with extra-arms and an inter-dimensional portal, made several “Best of New York Comic…
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Jordan Rennert (Los Angeles, CA)
I have been working on Cosplay Universe since 2015, so that means it’s been about seven years! I met Lauren St. Laurent while working on a previous film with my filmmaking partner Patrick Meaney: that film was ’Chris Claremont’s X-Men’. We connected with Lauren because she had some incredible X-Men cosplays that we discovered online.…
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Sheik (San Francisco, CA)
I grew up watching Wonder Woman with Linda Carter in it because my mom loved watching the show. I loved how beautiful, smart and tough she was. Everything you kind of want to be but hardly see in shows with women. You may have pretty, you may have smart…but to be kicking butt too? So…
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@CosplayMom99 (Los Angeles, CA)
Photo: @bb49r Everything Everywhere All At Once went viral and it was really exciting to see all of the buzz about it. Seeing Jamie Lee Curtis win the Oscar made me really decide to go through with this new cosplay in time for WonderCon. I actually didn’t have that much time but got picked up…
