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The Story of Darren Hunt

A few days ago an article caught my attention that brought angry tears to my eyes. Yet again  it was a case of police brutality in America but this particular incident struck a little closer to home for me personally and for the cosplay community. Twenty-two year old Darren Hunt, resident in the city of […]

Review: Worbla Workshop

I posted recently about a workshop taking place in Dublin last weekend. It was presented by cosplayer and entrepeneur Anathiel and took place in the comfort of her own home – now what I neglected to mention in my event posting was that I would be attending and secondly… I am a walking ‘arts-n-craftstrophe, meaning […]

The Arcade @ Dublin Comic Con

Dublin Comic Con has been and gone and like last year we were on hand to take it all in, soak up all the geekiness and if we’d any time left over to run some tournaments!  Our team were on hand to oversee card game and board game tournaments ranging from Munchkin to Mage Knight, […]

Sneaky Zebra at SDCC ’14

Have you seen this? You need to see this, it’s the ‘Sneaky Zebra’ cosplay video from this year’s San Diego Comic Con – the video features some amazing ‘amateur’ (these people are not amateur by any standard) and some cosplay celebrities including Jessicia Nigri, Yaya Han, Riddle and of course our own personal favourite, Missyeru! […]

Sneaky Zebra at SDCC '14

Have you seen this? You need to see this, it’s the ‘Sneaky Zebra’ cosplay video from this year’s San Diego Comic Con – the video features some amazing ‘amateur’ (these people are not amateur by any standard) and some cosplay celebrities including Jessicia Nigri, Yaya Han, Riddle and of course our own personal favourite, Missyeru! […]

Opinion: Troubles in the Cosplay Community

Chloe Leahy is a well known Irish cosplayer, she acts as the official Cosplay Coordinator for AkumaKon and maintains a regular blog/social media presence for her fans. The following article has been reposted with Chloe’s permission from her blog. With all that is currently going on in the cosplay community I felt the need to say […]

YouTuber of the Week: PompBerry

So YouTuber of the Week has fallen along the wayside while ArcadeCon was under-way but we’re back now to go through some amazing YouTubers. And what better YouTuber to start with than an incredibly talented artist, make-up artist and cosplayer: Pompberry (Fernanda Muchado),  a Brazilian Cosplayer, based in Ireland. Starting in 2007 cosplaying as Death from Sandman […]

Grahamedia – ArcadeCon 2014

Grahamedia is no stranger around the Arcade his work has been featured here several times at this stage and never one to rest on his laurels Graham had his equipment with him at ArcadeCon! Below is a fantastic video directed, filmed and edited by the one-man team and it’s an excellent look at just some […]

Cosplay and Body Image

I am an advocate for cosplay equality. Cosplay equality emcompases everything, ability, age, gender, race and size but with the Irish con season in full-swing, I’ve noticed the same problem popping up and it’s not just isolated to Ireland – cosplay and size. The human body is viewed/portrayed as an object – there is no […]
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