Myron is a salsa dance instructor turned cosplayer from Atlanta, GA. He first experienced cosplay while on his lunch break at his daytime IT job, which is located less than a block away from the action of Atlanta's DragonCon. After a few years of being a bystander, he decided to attend and cosplay for the first time in 2012, and has been enamored with the cosplay scene ever since. Myron is known for his epic Star Wars + Quentin Tarantino mash-ups, "Jules Windu" and "Django Fett", the latter of which has been featured on websites such as moviepilot.com and has...
A native of Taipei, Taiwan, Shirlz Vegas is a Maryland Cosplayer who made her cosplay debut at MAGFest 2016, showing off her moves as Street Fighter’s Chun-Li. Falling in love with the creativity of cosplaying and exciting atmosphere of conventions, Shirlz continued to build on her next costume. With Mortal Kombat being one of her favorite video games, she developed a sexy female version of Scorpion, which she debuted during Awesome Con 2016 in Washington DC. Appearing in numerous photos during Awesome Con, Otakon, and Anime USA, her Scorpion instantly became a huge fan favorite. Aside from playing fighting games,...
Rio is a mixed race (Caribbean/English) cosplayer based in London, UK. She's had a fond interest in all things geeky since she was little and started attending conventions in 2009. She didn't start cosplaying until 2012. She has cosplayed characters such as Fran from FFXII, Dante from Devil May Cry, Blanche from PokemonGo, Pirotess from Record of Lodoss War, Kida from Atlantis, Jecht from FFX, Kasumi from Dead or Alive, Korra from the Legend of Korra and Urd from Oh My Goddess! among others. "I'm really excited to be part of the event. Being brought up and living in Europe,...
We're Pretty Brown and Nerdy, a youtube channel ran by three nerdy girls Jazmine, Cheyenne and Camille! Through our channel we excitedly discuss all things nerd culture through our unique perspective; whether it be who are favorite badass anime ladies are, or what new superhero movie trailer has us hype, or Let’s Play gaming videos, or skits where we incorporate our nerdy lives into funny situations for our viewers. The channels inception in 2014, was born out of us finding a hole in the community that we knew we could fill with our passion and knowledge combined for different things...
BlerDCon welcomes Noir Caesar as GOLD sponsor for the upcoming convention happening at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA June 30 to July 2, 2017! Noir Caesar is a digital entertainment and publication company dedicated to the production of diverse and original content that will be making its official launch at Blerdcon! Among its upcoming projects are a “Shonen Jump” style anthology publication, “Hype Magazine”, and an anime whose trailer has been getting a lot of attention called “<a href="#" target"_blank">Primus 7</a>" Advance copies of their manga will be available for FREE to all attendees! Blerdcon and Noir...
We are thrilled to give you the one and only Maki Roll's Chop Shop! She will be joining us for panels, cosplay contest judging, picture taking and autograph signing for all her fans, old and new! Maki Roll is the "Cosplay Cutie Turned Burlesque Beauty". The DC native started her journey as a cosplayer in 2007, and through going to conventions and networking, has branched out to various forms of entertainment and modeling. She has made over 30 costumes, but gained extreme recognition for her portrayal of Ryuko Matoi's Senketsu Fashion Week from the anime Kill La Kill. When not...
Les Price - Alpha Furyan Blerdcon welcomes this Bodyguard to the stars, celebrity look alike and cosplayer to our event! Les is a Biracial cosplayer (Black,Italian) whom began portraying "RIDDICK" and numerous incarnations of him at conventions in the early 2000's. Les has been featured on "Wendy Williams" as a guest look alike, because of his uncanny resemblance to Vin Diesel. He has been featured in various cosplay articles (Cosplay Coulture, MoviePilot, Men's Fitness, Comingsoon.net) dawning his "King Xerxes", "Absorbing Man", and "Mr.Clean" cosplays. By day he makes a living as a celebrity look a like and Bodyguard. He recently...
Les Levi is a black queer cosplayer based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Beginning with Wizard World in Philly last year crossplaying as Rita Repulsa from Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers but since then, they’ve cosplayed characters; like HIM [PowerPuff Girls], Misty [Pokemon] and most recently Storm [X-Men/Marvel]. “I just started cosplaying in June of 2016, combing my nerdiness with my love for drag artistry, it’s like Halloween all year round.” Before joining the legion of cosplayers Levi headed a student program that went across the college campus educating peers, faculty, and staff on a variety of diversity and social justice issues....
For Khaleesi Cosplay, what started as a fascination has grown into 10 years of cosplay thanks toencouragement from her friends and family. Known for her award winning Anthy Himemiya and well received Hermoine, Khaleesi uses cosplay to exercise her creativity and build on it. Khaleesi Cosplay joined the family because she describes Blerdcon as "a convention that embraces the message I’ve always tried to embody in my cosplay. " Along with having fun, she hopes to send a message of representation in cosplay to the brown girls that aren't sure if there is a place for them.
Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson had a problem with bringing the magic of the Sorcerer Supreme to the big screen—namely, he didn’t know how he should do it. Should Strange mutter incantations? Use a wand like Harry Potter? He found the answer, surprisingly, on YouTube, in the videos of a dancer who goes by JayFunk. “I think that magic tends to be something where you cast a spell and then the camera sits back and you watch something happen,” Derrickson told Vulture. “I didn’t want it to be that. I wanted it to be in the action, I wanted it...