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@DraconPern (San Antonio, TX)
It started probably back in 2006 or 2007. You get bored and you look online for anime-related stuff and by chance I see these characters, these photos online. It wasn’t even that popular in Japan at that time, there was only a few sites where people posted photos and that is how I first found…
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Josh & Sheena (Christiana, TN)
We met in high school and started dating. I used to carry a DragonBallZ notebook. I had about three or four hundred DragonBall Z pictures in it. Her being an anime fan, it pulled her right over.. We did our honeymoon at Anime South 2009 What makes or breaks any con is the people .I…
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Superman (2012)
“That’s pretty much what superheroes are: a symbol of hope for society,” Christopher Dennis says. “When I’m out there on Hollywood, I’m portraying the character of Superman … that’s kind of what our job is — to get out of ourselves and become someone else. And you know, I love doing that.” A film by Drea…
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Jez Roth (Las Vegas, NV)
I opened up the School of Cosplay in November of 2019, right before covid. And I wanted to open this because I’ve been cosplaying since I was 13 and when we started out back, then there were no tutorials. There was nothing to help us and it was very much a desert of any type…
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Steffanie (Ashburn, VA)
Photo: @Zarf_ I’ve only been doing cosplay for about 2 years. But in that short time, it’s become a major part of my life. My first con was MAGFest – which I will be attending again this coming January. I will be attending Katsucon again in February. When I first decided to go, I knew I…
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Assist Wigs (Los Angeles, CA)
So the Assist Cosplay story started 30 years ago in 1992 with a company called NII, which stands for Nothing Is Impossible. They are a Japanese anime good’s brand who started exploring cosplay goods in 2006. At that time there was a cosplayer on the staff who was basically overseeing the production of the cosplay…
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Rick Prince (Nashville, TN)
[Face Off has] been an absolute and incredible ride. Over the arc of the past year, things have been really moving in leaps and bounds, for me. It’s been like a rocket-rollercoaster ride, straight to the top. Depending on how you perceive the show, straight off the tracks and all that kind of stuff. I…
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Gerald (Nashville, TN)
Gerald of SPN Creative & Mage TV It all started back at a convention called Omnicon in Cookeville, TN back in 2012. I ran into a group of Kingdom Hearts cosplayers who were in the middle of a small photoshoot. I was working with an Aiptek digital recorder at the time and decided to give the video…
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Patience (Anchorage, AK)
Well I don’t believe I really became a geek until my first time at Senshi Con back in 2012-2013. I didn’t know about the cosplay world until I went there. After that I started becoming a real fan of it and wanted to try making a cosplay. But because of how the geek society judges…
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Volpin Props (Atlanta,GA)
In 2013 as part of the second book, I flew to Atlanta to visit cosplayers including Harrison Krix of Volpin Props. He had gain some attention for the Big Sister costume and the Daft Punk helmet. He was still working out of his garage at this time. It began in October of 2007 – my…
