The first thing you have to know about me is that I’m a bit of a dork for Halloween. The second is that I always bite off more than I can chew. So when my six year old son, Little Dude, told me he wanted to be Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy for Halloween…
WWAC Staff Halloween Costumes of Yore
We’re a pretty nerdy bunch here at Women Write About Comics, and most of us wear our geek hearts on our sleeves year-round. But if there is any time of year when our enthusiasm cup runneth over, it is Halloween. Here is a collection of some of our proudest geek moments from Halloween long (and recently)…
Darrien Hunt: Shot Whilst Cosplaying?
A cosplayer with a trick sword is walking to a noodle place, he’s just been at the con. He’s shot in the back six times. Hey, says the cop — how was I to know it wasn’t a real sword? A kid with a trick sword is walking down the street, on the way to…
Dragon Con Dispatches: Saturday – Monday
If you’re just joining us, Labor Day Weekend was Dragon Con — the biggest sci-fi/fantasy/comics/multimedia comics convention in the south, celebrating its 27th year in 2014. It’s in many ways comparable to a SDCC of the South, but without the Hollywood interference messing with the signal to noise ratio. It boasts guests from every nerdy…
Product Review: Arda Wigs Over Dreadlocks
It’s a wig review! Arda Wigs Cosplay Wigs I mentioned way back in Cosplaying While Black: The Expense of Representing that I tend to cosplay only characters of color, to show that I appreciate creators making characters of my race, but that I was having a hard time doing so because my everyday hair is 4′ long…
The Cosplay Games
Salt Lake Comic Con knows cosplay isn’t just for conventions. This past weekend they hosted The Cosplay Games, a photo scavenger hunt in Salt Lake City, to get fans excited for the main event in early September. The four hour long event encourages participants to dress up and scour the downtown for clues to ten…
FanService Renji has some words for cosplayers
In response to people asking him to address issues in the cosplay community, cosplayer and entertainer, Fanservice Renji, posted a video on Youtube earlier this week titled Things Cosplayers Need to Stop Doing. The first time I checked the video had just under 2700 views, four hours later it had jumped to 17,000 and as…
Cherry City ComiCon Provides Great Example of How NOT to do PR
It is getting to the point, thankfully, where conventions make news when they do something, good or bad, that gets fandom’s attention. Cherry City ComiCon in Salem, Oregon has joined that fraternity, but unfortunately, as a bad example. What has already gone viral — it was trending on Twitter as of April 29th — is that Chana W….
Con Diary: Emerald City Comicon Day 2
I was taken to my very first con in 2011 by my unapologetically geeky, big sister. Back then, Emerald City Comic Con’s exhibition floor spanned only half of the fourth floor’s ballrooms. In 2014, the entire Washington State Convention Centre is home to the northwest coast’s premiere comic book and pop culture convention. With so…
Emerald City Comicon: Smashing Con Harassment
I spent last weekend in Seattle as an attendee of Emerald City Comicon, and honestly, I’m still coming down from the whole experience. It was awesome. While it was my third time attending ECCC, it this was my first time cosplaying. It was my first time cosplaying EVER. I had no idea what to expect,…
Cosplay Hustle: Con Prep on a Short Time Budget
I am a nerd. Loudly and proudly. I am also a huge procrastinator and scatterbrain. Put these two things together, and this is what you get… The Procrastinerdor Presents: Cosplaying: A Last-Minute Thor costume for ECCC I’ve been going down to Seattle from Vancouver for Emerald City Comic for four years now. This year we…
How Do You Feel About Jem: The Movie?
The recent announcement of a Jem live action movie was followed by a lot of buzz. Just as quickly as the excitement took off, the skepticism reared its head, as word got out that creator Christy Marx was not going to be included in the project. So how do fans really feel? We reached out…