For anime fans, making friends outside their interests once felt impossible, especially when trying to connect with “normies,” (in cosplay terms, this group is referred to as “a non-cosplayer”) ...

Who wouldn’t want to become Batman, have the hutzpah of Harley Quinn, or catch-em-all as Ash for a day? For pop-culture fans, cosplaying—dressing up as your favorite character—is a great way to honor ...

For decades, science-fiction and fantasy film, literature, and television were looked down upon by their more mainstream genre counterparts and creators, a lingering result of their low-brow origins: ...

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In Thurstan Redding’s photography series “Kids of Cosplay,” the mundane and the fantastical collide in unexpected ways. Spiderman stares pensively into the middle distance as he grabs milk from a ...

A queer writer shares how embracing the world of costuming and cosplay has allowed her to safely explore different sides of her identity. In his incisive fantasy novel, The Name of the Wind, author ...

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