I Play Games Hosted A Smash Ultimate Tournament at C+A+D: A Review
*Early March, Thanos Snapped all my content. Restore to old standard of digital curation soon...-Dodson Saturday the 15th of December I Play Games hosted a 64 person Super Smash Ultimate tournament at C+A+D. This is the fourth event I’ve interacted with IPG; I met IPG at Anime Midwest, a networking…
Hanging with Legendary B1rd: Review of my C+A+D experience.
*Thanos Snappening happened in early March. Will restore to old grammatical standards and photographic illustration---Dodson Conventions are funner with friends. This is a universally known fact. Covering conventions can often isolate you into a cycle of binging and purging different mediums of information and attempting to make some sense of…
Con + Alt + Del: 5 things that make this convention amazing!
* Wordpress Cucked my content in Early March 2019. Returning to former glory soon--Dodson Con + Alt + Delete is the finale of the year for many convention goers. This was my 3rd convention ever, yet it felt like my 100th. AnimeCon runs a successful model that builds familiarity and…
Love Your Family, Give Things Time, and Never Give Up in Art! FrannDraws Interview
Frann did an awesome Maijin Buu hip hop version drawing for my Dragonball Z hip hip remixes check him out at Franndraws on Instagram! Here's an interview with him. Nice Majin Buu drawing, which Dragonball is your favorite and why? - My favorite Dragon Ball is the Z…
Minecraft is The New Lego at Minefaire Convention
I went to Minefaire in Schaumburg Illinois and I’m going to tell you all about how Minecraft and Minefaire is influencing kids’ minds! Minfaire is the biggest celebration of the video game Minecraft, and it was awe inspiring! It’s a bonding experience for families, and it’s the Lego of the…
It’s Over 9,000 with Cosplayers at Wizard World Chicago
This year the Wizard World crowd seemed younger and older than ever before! That’s because family attendance is up thanks to Marvel movies and other aspects of geek culture. People are playing video games, reading comics, watching anime, and cosplaying at older ages. Cosplay is starting young for kids as…
The X-Files is Representing New School Feminists. What’s Old is New, What’s New is Old at Wizard World
Wizard World is a place where what’s old is new, and what’s new is old. We see reincarnations of past masterworks reinvented and done by people in cosplay and their works of art whether it’s the newest One Piece or Dragonball saga or a new comic influenced by the ones…
“Whatcha Saiyan??! Raps!!!” New Music from Super Geek DJ, JP hardboiled
Listen to the best mashups of classic hip hop rappers including: Tupac Eminem Rick Ross Big L Outkast Their lyrics are meeting up with the best of anime music remixed as hip hop from: Dragonball Z Death Note Naruto Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Dragonball Super I mashed em up! The great…
Anime Midwest- Why This Convention Deserves All the Love
As a cosplayer and an avid convention-goer, I always have a favorite convention that I like to go to. It can be for multiple reasons: the cosplay community, the panels, the artist alley, or even just the amount of times my photo will be taken! I have been to many…
Tomie: Why Junji Ito Collection Wasn’t A Great Introduction To New Fans
Beginning in the early 2010s, anime studios have been restarting, or remaking, old series and adapting them into anime. One of the most notable series that this was done to was Jojo's Bizarre Adventures back in 2012, which is still going strong today with the news of the 5th season coming out in October.…