Tag Archive | "costumes"

Empowered on that Wonder Woman costume

Monday, June 13, 2011

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I totally missed this until the other night, but Adam Warren had his naughty but huge fun Empowered, a superheroine who has had more than a few issues with her own super suit, commenting on some of the criticism levelled at the first shots of the costume for the proposed Wonder Woman television show starring [...]

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Comics costume design

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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Following yesterday’s mighty three-parter on comic book culture, here’s another video from Eric Homan, this time celebrating something no comic con would be complete without – people in comics costumes. In the video Eric pays tribute to Scott Crawford, a designer of comic book costume. I have a sudden urge to don some spandex (but [...]

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Cracking stuff, Gromit

Sunday, January 3, 2010

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How delightful is this? Yes, it’s contestants dressed up as Wallace and Gromit, complete with stunt-riding sheep (so based on A Close Shave, I’m assuming) for the sixth annual Hoar Cross downhill soapbox derby. Cracking. Thank goodness for the wonderful tradition of Great British Eccentrics and a national passion for a bit of silliness. (via [...]

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Halloween fun at N&C!

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Our colleagues in our much-loved Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham enjoyed some Halloween fun at the weekend, with costumes encouraged in-store; even flaming skulled Ghost Rider needs to stop by to get his new comics, you know: Some young fans enjoy some Halloween costume fun: And the N&C guys also ran an art competition [...]

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And you thought you had a great comic / cosplay costume?

Saturday, October 31, 2009

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Halloween costumes, Cosplay costumes – sometimes they’re good, sometimes not so good. But this Roy Lichtenstein job takes it to a whole new level: According to a comment on the Charmed blog the make-up artist doing this fantastic job is Jennifer Corona (Via Buzzfeed).

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