Bombshell Beckie cosplay collage featuring multiple character transformations and a Bombshell Beckie title graphic.

Bombshell Beckie: The Art Behind Her NYCC Best FX Win

The New York Comic Con Best FX winner talks about learning special-effects makeup, performing her characters, and the friends behind her Mystique/Gambit fusion. For Bombshell Beckie, cosplay involves more than constructing a recognizable costume. It is also a form of performance built around character, physical transformation, and interaction with other people. A Fixed Moment first…

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ConnectiCon 2026 cosplay at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford

Inside the Costumes and Characters of ConnectiCon 2026

By Saturday afternoon, the Connecticut Convention Center had become a constantly shifting collection of anime heroes, comic-book villains, pirates, monsters and original fantasy characters. Swords, horns, wings and handmade props moved through the Connecticut Convention Center hallways as cosplayers stopped for photographs, found friends and slipped into character. ConnectiCon XXIII took place July 16–19 at…

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