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Delta Major (New York City, NY)
I love cosplay but wanted to step out of doing exact replicas of the characters; instead, I wanted to do my own take on the characters by adding my own flare, while still giving ode to the characters and their essence. I came up with the idea for my Venom Mask dress while looking at…
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DeZBAH ROSE
Photo: @terrance_clifford Dani is one of the few fully developed Indigenous characters in comic book history, let alone a Native Woman. I decided to give her more authenticity by including items like Native-made jewelry and a bandana that highlights Indigenous philosophies and issues: Defend-Resist, Protect- Renew. The response at cons is always well received. Sometimes…
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Marc Kandel (NEW YORK)
Photo: @Miggychagon Iron Man, the Silver Centurion and later the Modular armor, were chosen as all my builds are, from a period from roughly 1982 to 1994, the height of my Marvel Comics readership. These were the stories that moved me, inspired me, that I couldn’t get enough of, and an alarming number of years…
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Logan Allen Wolf (Atlanta, GA)
Since I had a Spider-Man costume, I decided to bring it and wear it – much to the dismay of my childhood friend Kevin. I can hear my friend Kevin’s words to this day: “When you wear this: you don’t know me, I don’t know you. You will be over there (pointing) and I will…
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IAN (Dallas, TX)
I was reading the comic Young Avengers when it re-launched from Marvel. It was not only super funny but super insightful about gender norms and race. As a black nerd these types of issues are often overlooked for more typical “white male burden issues”. So I knew i wanted to do a character from the…
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Ted (Los Angeles, CA)
I’ve loved comics and superheroes ever since I was a kid. That was a long time ago, but I haven’t given up my “kid spirit”. Around 2000 I saw other people online starting to do superhero costumes, and with the urging of a friend I decided to get my first costume – the…
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Toni Darling (Phoenix, AZ)
The biggest misconception is that everyone will make tons and tons of money. That just isn’t true for most people. The hardest thing for most girls to accept, I think, is that there is no fail proof formula for success and a lot of ‘who makes it’ is luck. I am not saying that a…
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@Houston_Fisk (Houston, TX)
Alrighty so here’s my story. Dallas Comic Con . This was my first con to ever attend and I didn’t want to do cosplay at the time, because I was 16 years old and thought grown people dressing up for these events was absurd. Boy how wrong I was! I was hooked after that day.…
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Kendra (Whitewater, WI)
Deadpool was one of the first comic book characters that I really connected with. The humor and antics were so funny, and it’s one of the only comic series that I collect. Well, I stumbled across the alternate universe timeline and that’s when I first saw Lady Deadpool, who’s just as awesome and badass! This…
