The rapid growth in the number of people cosplaying since the 1990s has made the phenomenon a significant portion of pop ...

The film "Black Panther" has inspired black cosplayers around the country to be more visible within the cosplay community. Cosplay, which is short for "costume play," is when people wear ...

Every summer, some 130,000 attendees gather in San Diego for Comic-Con to celebrate entertainment, fandom and geek culture. Amy Vaughn had hoped to be one of them. Vaughn, an engineer, has wanted to ...

Cheers filled the room as Chloe Patrick walked the Ohayocon anime convention stage Saturday, wearing her handmade costume. Dressed as one of her favorite characters, she posed for the crowd and ...

the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game Cosplay is used as a form of expression. Expressing creativity, appreciation of a favorite character, confidence and so ...

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 ...

Zenkaikon formally kicked off Friday, bringing characters of all kinds to downtown Lancaster. The convention embraces all types of pop culture themes, from anime and TV shows, to video games and ...

From the dawn of what would become fandom as we know it, cosplay has been a part of how fans expressed themselves and showed their interest in different nerdy properties. For Black fans in particular, ...