With convention season officially back in full swing, whether virtually or in-person, there’s lots going on.
Step Into Yaya Han’s World of Cosplay
2020 has halted the convention season, which is a big problem for cosplayers like Yaya Han who rely on those moments of fan engagement for their livelihood. Han hasn’t been able to strut her creative stuff on the convention floor, however, she did get to take her cosplay work in a different direction with the…
Costumers with a Cause is Cosplay at its Kindest
Near the Cosplay stage at New York Comic Con earlier this month, there was tucked a small table, with a few raffle items on it and containers full of cash. A couple of superheroes relaxed behind the table, as one might expect. Their banner read: Costumers with a Cause, and they were there raising money…
Long May She Reign: FSCW’s Aerial Monroe
Professional badass wrestler Aerial Monroe is a goddess. Seriously. She first appeared on the professional wrestling circuit in 2015 and has been going nonstop ever since. She’s a veteran of female-lead wrestling events such as the Queens of Combat, SHINE, and Shimmer. As if that list wasn’t impressive enough, Aerial debuted in WWE’s Monday Night…
Dynamite Pubwatch: April
Welcome to the Dynamite Comics Pubwatch for the month of April! I’m Lisa, Dynamite is my explosive beat, and here’s this month’s news! Sweet Valley High Joins the Dynamite Roster! After publishing over four thousand books in hundreds of languages, Francine Pascal’s Wakefield Twins enter a new decade and join the modern era in “Academic…
In the Ring With Fantasy Super Cosplay Wrestling (FSCW)
It’s not every day you see Skeletor from He-Man & the Masters of the Universe place a choke hold on Spider-Man. Or Borderland’s Jinx body slam Lana Kane from Archer. Fantasy Super Cosplay Wrestling (FSCW) was created in 2009 by Florida Supercon founder Mike Broder. The idea for FSCW was to “offer a form of…
Seattle, Superheroes, and Social Justice: Vishavjit Singh’s WHAM! BAM! POW! at the Wing Luke Museum
WHAM! BAM! POW! Cartoons, Turbans and Confronting Hate opened May 4, May 2018 and runs through February 24, 2019 at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, Washington. It is the story of Vishavjit Singh, a Sikh American cartoonist who dresses as Captain America to dispel misconceptions in the United States about the traditional Sikh turban.
Previously on Comics: Living in a Hellscape
Seems like every time I sit down to write one of these, I gotta lead with people in positions of power in the comics industry using that power to punch down. We start the week off with Action Lab. Sorry, Action Lab Danger Zone, because the first thing that both bearers of the Action Lab name…
Dragon Con 2017: Highs and Lows
This year, several folks on the WWAC team spent a long Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, GA, enjoying the combination of panels, programming, and partying that is Dragon Con. With over 80,000 attendees, 400 guests, and a parade, there’s something for everyone at this convention, and this particular con diary. Come for the cosplay gallery,…
Triangulating Looks: Introducing Fashion
Because we live life on hard mode, we naturally decided to use column #2 to dig into the most difficult to define point on our triangle: fashion. In simplest terms, we’re defining fashion as building designs from the ground up rather than duplicating or reworking real world outfits. That doesn’t mean runway versus rack, though!…
Bullying in the U.K. Cosplay Scene: What Can Be Done?
Cosplay in the UK has been going on for long time, and I have found myself being involved in it, to a greater or lesser extent, for the last decade. I love cosplay. I love making it. I love wearing it. I love seeing what other people do with it. It has helped me become…
Put Some Character In Your Wardrobe: Dress Like Your Faves
Today a friend of mine told me “I like your boots, they remind me of Sherlock Holmes.” I was properly chuffed. This had been my thought process when I bought them: “It’s a cool look” swiftly followed the Holmes statement. It was rather gratifying to have someone say it out loud though. I mean, I…