The cosplay culture may be widespread across Japan, but just how popular is it in Australia? With events such as EB Expo, Supanova, and next year’s PAX Australia, there are increasing opportunities ...

If you’ve popped into a Halloween store and noticed that the off-the-shelf stuff has become a little more intricate than you remember, you’re not in the Twilight Zone. While Halloween is just one ...

For decades, science-fiction and fantasy film, literature, and television were looked down upon by their more mainstream genre counterparts and creators, a lingering result of their low-brow origins: ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Who wouldn’t want to become Batman, have the hutzpah of Harley Quinn, or catch-em-all as Ash for a day? For pop-culture fans, cosplaying—dressing up as your favorite character—is a great way to honor ...

If you've recently gone to a comic or pop culture convention, you've noticed that more and more people dress up in costumes and participate in cosplay. If you haven't yet taken up cosplay, maybe ...

In Thurstan Redding’s photography series “Kids of Cosplay,” the mundane and the fantastical collide in unexpected ways. Spiderman stares pensively into the middle distance as he grabs milk from a ...

A queer writer shares how embracing the world of costuming and cosplay has allowed her to safely explore different sides of her identity. In his incisive fantasy novel, The Name of the Wind, author ...