This is not a tutorial. This is a highly personal account on how much time, energy, love, trial and error was invested into creating my cosplay of Jareth the Goblin King. If any of you guys have any specific questions on how to make any part of the costume, feel free to drop me a message. I'll [...]

A frequent mistake that people make when they see me and my partner Endymion cosplaying together is that we’re an item. That’s not true – I am happily married for 13 years now, while Endymion is in a long relationship with a wonderful girl that he met at a party I dragged him to. But we A[...]

Ever since I discovered "The Sandman", Death became my favorite female character of all times. In fact, with her dark glamour, positive attitude, no-nonsense behavior and endless understanding for virtues and flaws of gods and mortals alike, she came to be the only fictional character that I co[...]

I discovered "The Sandman" more than 15 years ago. A friend recommended it to me, saying that with my love for mythology, dark fantasy, twisted stories and all things Gothic (and that was in the peak of my Über-Goth phase), the comic was exactly what the proverbial doctor ordered. So I borrowe[...]

So this happened.

Yesterday, I was browsing the web looking for pictures of Gackt - you know the dude, Gackt Camui, Japan's greatest rock star, Mr. Perfect himself, the man who served as the inspiration for numerous pop-culture characters. While looking at the pics, I stumbled up[...]

For Day Three, given that Visual Madness was in town, we decided to do a rerun of our "Final Fantasy" shtick. To boot, Tenshi debuted her Gackt costume – the one that served as inspiration for "Final Fantasy"’s Genesis – so we were quite a cool little trio.

I also honestly [...]