MegaCon Orlando 2024 – Big Names. Big Cosplay.
MegaConvention hit Orlando hard February 1st – 4th, 2024 with high-profile guests, amazing artists, and impressive panels to entertain and educate conventioneers of all ages.
MegaConvention hit Orlando hard February 1st – 4th, 2024 with high-profile guests, amazing artists, and impressive panels to entertain and educate conventioneers of all ages.
One of the highlights of any convention is the cosplay. It’s the opportunity to really immerse yourself in the geek culture and share your passion with everybody. Truth be told, I am more of a casual cosplayer myself. In part due to my absolutely horrific crafting skills, my short attention span, and my lack of […]
Reading Time: 1 minute I met these handmaids at the Weta Workshop booth in the exhibit hall. One of them told me the red dresses came from Target! Image credit (as well as all other images): Patricia Vollmer In all honesty, this post should be titled, “Patricia’s favorite cosplay with which she had the time […]
Reading Time: 1 minute This weekend is Denver Pop Culture Con and I’m thrilled to have been able to spend two days at the event. There’s still plenty going on today (Sunday) if you are thinking about going. Plenty of panels, celebrities, artists, and vendors galore! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Apparently she’s always liked dressing as tough Scandinavians. What finally convinced my daughter to clean her room this weekend was the suspicion that there might be a cat-ear headband buried in the dress-up box buried under… everything else, and Halloween is only a couple weeks away. The dress-up box hadn’t originally […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Inspired by Hamilton It’s autumn in the northeast United States and my con season is winding down, but not my cosplay season. For almost a decade now I’ve been practicing “stealth,” “closet,” or “everyday” cosplay more and more regularly. That same decade or so also saw the rise of Disneybounding, geek fashion shows […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes This week on The Hound of Daksterville, we talk with Kiba the Cosplay Corgi and his handler/mom Nicole. These two are one heck of a team having fun as cosplayers at cons as well as having a service dog/handler relationship. Kiba and Nicole were happy to give us some insight into […]
Cecil Castellucci’s ‘Don’t Cosplay with My Heart’ is an ode to the glorious and brutal reality of being a young nerd today. Which is a totally different thing from being a young nerd in the ’80s and ’90s, which hits much closer to home.
Cosplay Family Spotlight is a new recurring segment where I interview and spotlight a cosplay family. This week, I interview Larger Than Life Cosplay.
To celebrate the release of Despicable Me 3 on DVD and Blu Ray, I’ve decided to put together a simple DIY holiday minion costume. No sewing skills needed.
Cosplay Family Spotlight is a new recurring segment where I interview and spotlight a cosplay family. This week, I interview the Douglas Family.
Cosplay Family Spotlight is a new recurring segment where I interview and spotlight a cosplay family. This week, I interview Junior Ghost Beaters
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Cosplay Family Spotlight is a new recurring segment where I interview and spotlight a cosplay family. This week, I interview Many Faces of Cosplay.
My daughter has developed her own exercise in creativity and empathy (for fictional characters): ask yourself, WWPPW? What Would Pinky Pie Wear?
Box Lunch and Torrid, one-stop geeky shopping that also includes a nice selection of plus-size items for women.
Rose City Comic Con is coming up in just a couple of weeks, and we want to help a cosplay family get there!
Cosplay Family Spotlight is a new recurring segment where I interview and spotlight a cosplay family. This week, I interview Cheetah Girl Cosplay.
Was it my first cosplay? It was my first time in a costume in a crowded public place (not on Halloween), and it was a special experience I wasn’t expecting.
Some of the lessons we took away from Making It Fit: Techniques for Body-Positive Cosplay, a panel at ConnectiCon 2017.
Cosplay Family Spotlight is a new recurring segment where I interview and spotlight a cosplay family. This week, I interview Cotter Family Cosplay.
Patricia shares her favorite family cosplay and discusses cosplay trends at this year’s Denver Comic Con.
Cosplay Family Spotlight is a new recurring segment where I interview and spotlight a cosplay family. This week, I interview Thorne Family Costuming.
Cosplay, cats, and coloring. Enough said.
MegaCon 2017: We Came. We Saw. We Cosplayed.
Cosplay Family Spotlight is a new recurring segment where I interview and spotlight a cosplay family. This week, I interview The Scherm Family.
Cosplay Family Spotlight is a new recurring segment where I interview and spotlight a cosplay family. This week, I interview The Cosplay Kid and his family.
SyFy’s latest competition reality show, ‘Cosplay Melee,’ aired episode five last week, and the final sixth episode of the season airs tonight!
SyFy’s latest competition reality show, ‘Cosplay Melee,’ aired episode five last week, and the final sixth episode of the season airs tonight!