Cosplay

Cosplay We Love: Emma Rubini’s Tank Girl

Tank Girl by Jamie Hewlett
Tank Girl by Jamie Hewlett

Every now and then you find a great example of “next-level” cosplay. When we saw Emma Rubini’s rendition of Tank Girl, we were simply awestruck. From the spot-on costume and weapons to the superb job of cel shade animation, Emma looks like she stepped right of the page of one of Jamie Hewlett’s comics.

You can follow Emma on Instagram or Tumblr — and you should. Right now.

Have you ever done cosplay so good, people demanded proof you are an actual person and not a drawing?

Before and after.

Work in progress…

Weapons of choice

 

DC Superhero Girls Take WonderCon

This year we partnered up with several other little girl cosplayers to recreate the DC Super Hero Girls for our WonderCon cosplay. The girls all had a tremendous amount of fun, and even ran into Lisa Yee, the author of the first DC Super Hero Girls novel, and a group of adult cosplayers who also cosplayed as DC Super Hero Girls.

Photo gallery courtesy of WonderWall Visions.

 

Poison Ivy – Heroic Girls
Poison Ivy – Heroic Girls
DC Superhero Girls
Wonder Woman – Mommy and Me Cosplay
Poison Ivy and Lisa Yee – Heroic Girls
Lisa Yee and Bumblebee – Lil’ Cupcake Pony
Two Katanas – ESJ Cosplay
Harley Quinn – Mommy and Me Cosplay
Two Bumblebees – Lil’ Cupcake Pony
Batgirl – Scarlett Phox
Big Heroes / Little Heroes
Two Batgirls – Scarlett Phox
Two Supergirl – Heroic Girls
Poison Ivy – Heroic Girls
Batgirl – Scarlett Phox
Poison Ivy – Heroic Girls
Supergirl – Heroic Girls
Bumblebee – Lil’ Cupcake Pony
Poison Ivy & Hawkgirl – Heroic Girls
Lisa Yee and Katana – ESJ Cosplay
Katana – ESJ Cosplay
DC Super Hero Girls
DC Super Hero Girls
Bumblebee – Lil’ Cupcake Pony
Poison Ivy – Heroic Girls
DC Super Hero Girls
Batgirl – Scarlett Phox
Wonder Woman – Mommy and Me Cosplay
DC Super Hero Girls
Katana – ESJ Cosplay
Batgirl – Scarlett Phox
Supergirl – Heroic Girls
DC Super Hero Girls
Katana – ESJ Cosplay
DC Super Hero Girls
DC Super Hero Girls
Big Wonder Woman / Little Wonder Woman – Mommy and Me Cosplay
Supergirl – Heroic Girls
Katana – ESJ Cosplay
Supergirl – Heroic Girls
DC Super Hero Girls
DC Superhero Girls
Two Bumblebees – Lil’ Cupcake Pony
Supergirl – Heroic Girls
DC Super Hero Girls – Big vs. Little
DC Super Hero Girls
DC Super Hero Girls = Both Groups
Two Batgirls – Scarlett Phox
DC Super Hero Girls
Lisa Yee and Batgirl – Scarlett Phox
Bumblebee – Lil’ Cupcake Pony
Batgirl – Scarlett Phox
DC Super Hero Girls – Big vs. Little
Poison Ivy – Heroic Girls
Lisa Yee with DC Super Hero Girls
Katana – ESJ Cosplay
DC Super Hero Girls

Adult DC Super Hero Girls

Hello Koko Cosplay (Batgirl)
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Natalie Atkins (Supergirl)
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UnfragmentDecoy (Bumblebee)
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Flying Octophant (Katana)
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Kyomastr (Wonder Woman)
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Arielle (Hawkgirl)
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Aqua Cat & Redd Cosplay (Harley Quinn and Catwoman)
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Cosplay: Little Girl Ghostbusters Are Ready to Believe You

While on my way to a panel for Auburndale City Con, I spotted these adorable little girls cosplaying as the new female Ghostbusters. I gave the George Patterson, the father two in the group, a business card, and he graciously sent us some photos and a short movie the girls made. He also answered some questions about how the cosplay was developed.

Who came up with the idea?

I have to give Danielle my oldest daughter the credit for the Ghostbusters idea and the storyline for the video we produced.

Did the girls get to help make the costumes? Have they been cosplaying long?

The girls really enjoyed the assembly process of the proton packs. They got to use spray paint, duct tape, a drill and liquid nails.  As for how long the girls have been cosplaying, I would have to say their whole lives. From Batgirl to She-Ra, Princess Leia to Lara Croft — they have found many great characters to play.

Are the girls planning to see the new movie?

The girls are very excited about [the new movie]. They have seen the previous movies and they have also been practicing the Ghostbusters theme song on Lego Rock Band. Danielle scores 100 percent on the lyrics portion most of the time.

Any plans for future costumes?

The neighborhood girls have already been scheming together on next years costumes. Lilly my youngest, wants to to Ewoks and AT-ATs. Full size AT-ATs!

I said, “That is like 300 feet tall!”

Lilly said, “I know. Won’t it be awesome?”

Ghostbuster Girls – Auburndale City Con
Ghostbuster Girls – Auburndale City Con
Ghostbuster Girls – Auburndale City Con
Ghostbuster Girls – Auburndale City Con
Ghostbuster Girls – Auburndale City Con

ESJ Cosplay – Cosplay We Love

You can meet a lot of wonderful people on the comics convention circuit, and one of our favorite discoveries of the past year was our new friends at ESJ Cosplay.

Made up of cosplayer Emi and design team Sendy (mom) and Jose (dad); ESJ Cosplay has been knocking it out of the park with fantastic costume after fantastic costume — doing multiple conventions and multiple costumes  every year.

You can follow ESJ Cosplay on Instagram (@esjcosplay) or Twitter (@EmSeJo).

X-23 Costume by Jose Ramirez Photography by NixDad
X-23 Costume by Jose Ramirez Photography by NixDad
Winter Soldier Costume by Jose Ramirez Photography by NixDad
Winter Soldier Costume by Jose Ramirez Photography by NixDad
Thor Costume by Jose Ramirez Photography by NixDad
Snow White
Rey (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Rey (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Rey (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Rey (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Rainbow Dash
Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) Costume by Sewmany costumes Photography by Heroic Imaging
Ms Marvel (Kamala Khan) Costume by SewMany Costumes Photography by James Rulison
Ms Marvel (Kamala Khan) Costume by SewMany Costumes Photography by York in the box
Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)
Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice) Costume by Sendy Ramirez Photography by Jose Hernandez
Loki Costume by Jose and Sendy Ramirez Photography by Wonderwallvisions
Loki vs. Thor Photography by Wonderwallvisions
Loki Costume by Jose and Sendy Ramirez Photography by Wonderwallvisions
Jedi Snow White
Frida Kahlo
Frankie Stein (Monster High)
Fifty Sue Costume by Jose and Sendy Ramirez Photography by Wonderwall Vision
Fifty Sue Costume by Jose and Sendy Ramirez Photography by Wonderwall Vision
Causal Captain Phasma

 

Target Gives Captain Phasma An Accidental Sex Change

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Target is having a rough month when it comes to gender and toys. After a fantastic announcement that they were removing gendered signs from the toy department, they flubbed badly by releasing an exclusive Star Wars action figure set that left out Rey, the main character, and Captain Phasma, the menacing female hench(wo)man in exchange for a generic Storm Trooper and Tie Fighter Pilot. This was quickly tied to a long pattern of Target excluding female characters from action figure sets.

Still, after all the furor, it was still surprising to see that — while they offered a dress-up costume for bad-ass female villain Captain Phasma — they put it in the boys department labeled Star Wars: Episode VII Boys Deluxe Villain Trooper Costume.

It would be easy to place this as yet another slight by Target against girls and women, but honestly, it is so puzzling that I think I’m going to use Hanlon’s Razor to determine their motivation.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I can’t imagine they wanted the backlash from girls and women on this sensitive topic. And they certainly don’t want to hear from the parents of boys when they find out they were accidentally cross-dressing.

We got a screenshot of the costume on Target’s website below before they inevitably fix it.

Target promotes cross-dressing? How progressive.
Captain Phasma costume

h/t to Troy Freund

Parents Give Kids 31 Days of Halloween — All of Them #MoreThanCute

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Leng and Melinda Lai are parents raising two little girls, Audrey and Chloe. Since 2010, instead of making one Halloween costume for each of the girls each year, the Lais make 31.

Melinda explains:

I started The 31 Days of Halloween because I thought it would be fun. We usually throw together the costumes and scenes from things we find around the house. Very rarely do we buy anything, and if we do it’s pieces that can be used for multiple ideas, like the knight helmet and armor. We have a costume box the girls play with a lot, and that’s where the firefighter and dragon and other costumes live year round.

Melinda is also quick to point out that the costumes often are more inspiration than persperation.

A few of the costumes are planned out, but often inspiration will strike and we’ll just grab stuff and take a picture. For Silence of the Lambs, Leng drew the moth and cut it out. Most of the costumes are only good for the photograph and aren’t something that the girls could actually play in, but we like to keep it less stressful.

And the Lais are well aware that many of the costumes involve cultural references that the girls don’t (and shouldn’t) understand.

Some of the pictures are not really kid-appropriate and that we anticipate some interesting conversations as the girls get older. We also hope that they will look back on the pictures with fun memories.

Here are the first 26 27 costumes of 2015. We will update this page as more are revealed.

October 1 – Poltergeist
October 2 – McKayla Maroney
October 3 – Butterfly Princess
October 4 – Kristi Yamaguchi
October 5 – Daredevil
October 6 – Magic Mike XXS
October 7 – The Paper Bag Princess
October 8 – The Warriors
October 9 – American Ninja Warrior
October 10 – Harriet the Spy
October 11 — Hansel & Gretel
October 12 – Boxtrolls
October 13 – Captain Underpants
October 14 – Fruit Ninja
October 15 – Do the Right Thing
October 15 – Walter White
October 17 – Godzilla
October 18 – Godzilla vs. Mothra
October 19 – The Goonies
October 20 – Planet of the Apes
October 21 – Bad Lizard Girl (A Chloe Original)
October 21 – Mad Men
October 23 – Silence of the Lambs
October 24 – Weekend at Bernie’s
October 25 – Weekend at Bernie’s 2
October 26 – The Dude
October 27 – Ruth Bader Ginsberg