Marcus Williams and Greg Burnham, the geniuses behind the Tuskegee Heirs comic book and animation projects we are ALL looking forward to, came to SOBSF Con Co-Chair, Milton Davis with a proposal:
“How about a Cosplay Contest? We’ll put in half the money for it.”
And thus it happened. So now, along will all the other Blacktastic happenings at the State of Black Science Fiction Convention, we have added the YOU are the Hero Cosplay Contest.
There will be cash prizes and awards, so cosplayers and aspiring cosplayers wear your coolest costumes, sign up at SOBSF Con and strut your stuff!
Here are the rules:
The YOU are the Hero Cosplay Contest has two categories: Adult & Youth.
Adults are contestants who are 16 years old or older. Youth are those contestants who are under 16 years of age.
Contestants will be judged on:
- Craft – Contestants are judged on both the overall appearance of their cosplay, and the quality of the construction of the costume.
- Coolness – Contestants are judged on their acting, presentation and presence.
- Creativity – Contestants are judged on their originality and/or their personal spin on existing characters.
Each contestant will walk down the center aisle of the theater, up the stairs and then pause at center stage to pose. Contestants will have the walk to the stage, the ascension onto the stage and the pose time to wow the judges and the crowd.
Please remember, this is a family event, so costumes that are too revealing or overly sexually suggestive will not be allowed.
No real weapons are allowed and no pyrotechnics can be used.
THIS is going to be EPIC, inDEED!
My God. I love African American music and literature to death, but, living up here in Canada, we don’t always get to see all of what’s going on with you guys. That “Tuskegee Heirs” looks like something else indeed. I’m going to have to find myself a copy ’cause there’s still a lot I need to learn from you guys, by the looks of it.