by Philip Gust | Aug 3, 2023 | articles, International Costumer, Uncategorized
The Silicon Web Costumers’ Guild is proud to send our best wishes to member, and fandom and costuming legend Bjo Trimble on her 90th birthday on August 15, 2023. Bjo remembers that she met future husband John Griffin Trimble under Forrest J Ackerman’s...
by Eleanor Farrell | Aug 2, 2023 | articles, International Costumer
I am very saddened to report that Deborah K. Jones, respected and admired by all in the costuming community for her exquisitely crafted and thoughtfully choreographed masquerade presentations, passed away peacefully on July 8, 2023, following a three year bout with...
by Kevin Roche | Jul 28, 2023 | articles, International Costumer
Disclaimer: this post is a personal one, and is not intended as an official endorsement of a Hugo Finalist by the ICG or its president. It’s always fun when people you know are named as finalists for prestigious awards; I’ve been fortunate to know many of the writers,...
by Philip Gust | May 1, 2023 | articles, International Costumer
All current ICG officers were re-elected for the 2023-2024 term at the 2023 ICG Annual Meeting on April 20, 2023 in San Jose, California. Here are their profiles. Kevin Roche – President (Silicon Web Costumers Guild) is a sci-fi/fantasy and historical costumer with...
by Kathe Gust | Feb 8, 2023 | articles, International Costumer
The DC Cosplay Photo Shoots Special Interest Group (SIG) hosted an exhibition from February 4-11 at the Vulcan Muse Gallery in the Workhouse Arts Center of the work that guests to their events have made over the years. SIG chair Dan Arango said that they are very...
by Byron Connell | Jan 28, 2023 | articles, International Costumer
The masquerade at the Astronomicon 13 science fiction convention, Henrietta NY, November 4-6, 2022, was scheduled for 8:00 PM on the Saturday of the convention. Scheduled in the same room for 9:00 PM was a Cosplay Ball, with a dance floor and DJ. For weeks we wrestled...
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