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    Cosplay is a performance art where people dress up as characters from manga, anime, comics, video games, and other pop culture works. The term "cosplay" is a portmanteau of the words "costume" and "play." People carefully craft costumes to look just like the characters and bring them to life. Cosplay has grown into a worldwide phenomenon where fans celebrate their favorite fictional works through creative self-expression.

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    Cosplay is a performance art where people dress up as characters from manga, anime, comics, video games, and other pop culture works. The term "cosplay" is a portmanteau of the words "costume" and "play." People carefully craft costumes to look just like the characters and bring them to life. Cosplay has grown into a worldwide phenomenon where fans celebrate their favorite fictional works through creative self-expression.

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    Cosplay is a performance art where people dress up as characters from manga, anime, comics, video games, and other pop culture works. The term "cosplay" is a portmanteau of the words "costume" and "play." People carefully craft costumes to look just like the characters and bring them to life. Cosplay has grown into a worldwide phenomenon where fans celebrate their favorite fictional works through creative self-expression.

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    Dress You Up:
    Cosplay, short for costume play or kosupure, Learn more:
    is a type of performance art. The term cosplay Research Online:
    was coined by Nobuyuki Takahashi after he attended the 1984 Los Angeles WWCosplay Magic: www.cosplaymagic.com
    Science Fiction WorldCon and saw fans in costumes. WWCosplay Lab: www.cosplaylab.com
    WWFlickr, library cosplay: www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=library+cosplay&m=text
    Persons dress up as their favorite manga, cartoon, anime, sci-fi or fantasy WWWikihow on making cosplay costumes: www.wikihow.com/Make-Cosplay-Costumes
    character. Inspiration for cosplay also includes characters from comic books, WWLakewood Public Library Anime Club: www.lkwdpl.org/anime/cosplay.html
    graphic novels, video games and movies. Its not just limited to characters;
    Read About in a Book or a Magazine:
    fans have dressed up as inanimate objects as well. Taking a page from William WWDorfman, Elena and Carlo McCormick. Fandomania: Characters & Cosplay. NY: Aperture
    Shakespeares time, genders can switch roles males can be females and Foundation, Inc., 2007. Print.
    females can be male characters. Your only limitation is your imagination. WWDunlop, Rob and Peter Lumby. Cosplay Fever. London: Ablaze, 2010. Print.
    WWKurotaki, Jan. How to Cosplay. vols. 1 4. London: ADV Manga, 2007. Print.
    Cosplay:
    WWWinge, Theresa. Costuming the Imagination: Origins of Anime and Manga Cosplay.
    The term cosplay is a portmanteau of the English words costume and play.
    Mechademia: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga. Vol. 1. Minneapolis, MN:
    WWWhat other portmanteaus can you create? www.lexiconcept.com University of Minnesota, 2006. 6576. Print.
    WWWho is your favorite pop culture character? What attributes do you admire about Otaku: Geeking Out for Everyone to See:
    him/her? How would you make the costume for that character?
    WWCosplay; an organized gallery of cosplay: cosplay.com
    WWComicCon 2010 Cosplay Gallery: www.tested.com/news/the-comic-con-2010-cosplay-
    You Look Marvelous: gallery-850-amazing-costumes/594
    When making your costume, the accepted norm is to adhere as strictly as possible
    WWCosplayers
    to what the character normally wears. Costumes can be purchased or handcrafted.
    dressed as the
    WWTake a doll and dress it up in your favorite characters costume, or have a Teenage Mutant
    cosplay day at your school or local library, or sketch your costume. Ninja Turtles at
    the Anime Expo
    WWHave a contest for best interpretation of a character in costume.
    2011, held at
    WWHave a costume sketch contest. the Los Angeles
    WWWrite a skit. Dress up as the characters and act out a scene from a comic Convention Center
    in California.
    or graphic novel.
    WWSet up a photo shooting area and take pictures. Post the pictures in the
    classroom. Attach to the pictures a short description of the character, why
    you chose this particular character. List attributes of the character that you
    also possess, and how the character is different from you.

    Newspapers for this educational program provided by:


    Visit nie.newsok.com and click on the Teen Read
    Month picture for more information on the impact
    of comics and graphic novels on our culture. NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION

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