Cosplay (short for costume play) has seen an explosion in popularity since the advent of social media. Not only for Halloween, Renaissance fairs, and other holiday-themed events, but also for comic cons, gaming cons, sci-fi/fantasy cons, anime cons, and any convention themed around a particular genre of fandom. Instagram and YouTube celebrities have turned to […]

Despite the name, Frog Juice does not involve actual frogs. Frog Juice is a chemical product from the industrial sector. Its original purpose was to make outdoor vinyl signs weather-proof. At a retail business with an outdoor sign, they’d use this to coat the sign, assuring it lasted longer and the colors didn’t fade. Hence, […]

It’s a simple definition: cosplay is a portmanteau of “costume” and “play,” the act of putting on a costume and role-playing its character. But from that simple root springs a broad and complex culture, which has flourished into a worldwide phenomenon. You could pick just about any point in history and find the roots of […]

Teen Titans is the definition of a cult following in comics. The title itself has existed in a semi-franchised Twilight Zone since the 1960s, with the theme of having an ensemble cast of teenage sidekicks from other titles come together to form their own league. As characters age out of their teen years, the series […]

Jessica Nigri is a cosplayer whom all professional Instagram influencers can look up to. Starting out in 2009 when her Pokemon cosplay went viral, she has gone on to be the life of the party at comic-cons and conventions around the world. She’s also climbed up the cosplay celebrity ladder a tad to become a […]

Merely whisper of “platform video games” and the first game everyone will think of is Mario Brothers. The plucky little Italian plumber hopped from arcade machines to the console to everywhere else, in a franchise that now spans four decades. Yet the Mario universe is still quite simple. There’s a couple of brothers, a princess, […]