MomoCon returned to the Georgia World Congress Center Thursday, May 25 – Sunday, May 28. MomoCon smashed its own attendance record with 48,000+ unique visitors attending the convention during Memorial Day Weekend convention. That represented a 15 percent jump from 2022. At MomoCon I saw some amazing cosplayers from around the world and met people showing love for characters from all types of pop culture, comics, anime, and video games. I took some time […]
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MomoCon and Sony Pictures announced a team up to attempt a Guinness world record for the most Spider-Man and Spider-Woman cosplayers web slinging in a single location. This collaboration was part of the celebration of the highly anticipated movie, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse which is now in theaters. If you haven’t seen it then you are missing out. The current world record stands at 601 web slingers cosplaying as Spider-Man or Spider-Woman which was achieved […]
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I was lucky enough to attend the Rocky Mountain Nightmare Horror Expo and Film Festival in Denver. I have loved horror my entire life but never attended a Horror Convention. I though about wearing my Ghostface cosplay but that was too predictable so I wore my A-Train cosplay and through some blood on my suit and my face. I only went on one day but that was more than enough. I had so much time […]
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My first WonderCon is in the books and it was a lovely experience. I was able to meet some cool creatives and some very talented artists. There were attendees from over 20 countries at this con at the Anaheim Convention Center. I was able to complete a couple on site interviews for the cosplay alliance youtube channel. I met @caoimhe in person who was the first black cosplayer to have 1 million followers on TikTok. […]
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This was my second time attending Emerald City Comic Con and it was another blast. I attended on behalf of Cosplay Alliance as an interviewer. I didn’t realize my favorite artist was attending, Marcus the visual who is on IG @marcusthevisual. I was actually wearing his version of a genderbend Rogue cosplay from X-Men that he drew during his annual Swaptober series. He gladly obliged to be interviewed and of course I did the interview in […]
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My first convention of 2023 is in the books and it was also my first time attending Katsucon. From a cosplay perspective Katsucon did not disappoint. It was a great place to see all the cosplay heavy hitters and amazing builders with their giant builds. On day zero this amazing photo was taken and I can’t lie I felt like a star. Photo by @CandidJohnKim […]
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Another MCM London Comic Con is in the books and this was one of the best I’ve ever attended. I cannot begin to tell you just how amazing this con was. It was a dream of mine to cosplay Simon Phoenix from Demolition Man for years and I was finally able to do that. A huge shout out to me Demolition Man squad. Spartan was cosplayed by @6seasons and Huxley was cosplayed by @readycosplayerone. […]
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Most people don’t know this but I my start in the cosplay community came as a photographer. Photography is still a passion for me even though I don’t do it at too many conventions anymore. KingCon had a photography contest and I decided to enter with 2 photos. I managed to win 2nd place in the photo manipulation category. I was extremely happy because my photoshop skills sucked when I first started out and it […]
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The Cosplay Journal joined forces with Cosplay Central to host the first cosplay photography exhibition at MCM Comic Con London in October. I was notified and decided to submit an entry. It would be an honor for my work to be featured at the Con I have attended the most. The Cosplay Journal created this exhibition to celebrate photographers that are a staple of the cosplay community. The Cosplay Journal had a surprise and printed […]
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Dragon Con is back! It has been three years since Ugo and I attended Dragon Con. Before the pandemic Dragon Con 2020 was my most anticipated convention. I was becoming the fittest I’ve ever been for it. Atlanta is home for me as I was born and raised there but I hadn’t been home since 2020 so I was anxious about it. Dragon Con was the first con I went to and was my introduction […]
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