Author Archives: Kendra Beltran

Books are one of the original forms of entertainment. Learning to write really changed the game for societies. Storytellers no longer had to remember every detail, plays could be put on a stage, and today we have things like movies and TV to fill our Read More

Another year, another round of Stan Lee's Comikaze. This year had a ton of informational panels, a main stage packed full of talent and reunions, exclusive Fox screenings, and an abundance of cosplay, including a contest to crown the best of the best. Read More

We’ve come to the end of the road as far as cosplaying is concerned and in case you haven’t picked out something to dress up for Halloween or for your next con, I've come up with a list of the best characters and genres to pick from. Read More

Cosplaying is a huge undertaking and when you decide to portray video game characters and such, you are heavily engulfed in the whole look from top to bottom. You don’t leave any stone unturned. Every detail must be perfect. When you Disneybound, it’s Read More

Kiki Kannon didn’t grow up thinking twice about cosplay. She dressed up naturally as a child and spent Halloween thinking mostly of the free candy she could collect. Today she’s a prop maker and cosplayer extraordinaire who doesn’t belong to any sort of Read More

Whether it’s anime, superheroes, TV favorites, or ones they love from the big screen, there is a vast array of characters to choose from when it comes to cosplaying, and I think that’s part of the fun — that and being able to take on the look of someone Read More

So usually it’s about things from the past here but I decided to stay in the present and talk about TV shows that deserve your attention this Fall. There are so many new programs that come out but only a handful make it through the ranks to become fan Read More

TV has always been a way I escape. I could watch hours of Queer as Folk and forget they were simply characters on a show and not people with real life problems. I took on their drama and was able to let mine slip away during those marathons. That’s one Read More

It’s not every day that you get to exchange words with a guy who has an Olympic medal sitting in his home — and not because he’s a millionaire who got it at auction, but because he earned it fair and square. Pretty cool, huh? Well, this month isn’t Read More

This is the month I’ve been waiting all year for; as I’ve often said, I’d marry a television set if I could. That’s the truth. We’ll hear more about my strange obsession in a few weeks because right now I have to get to what we’ll be covering over the Read More

So we’ve made it to the last week of our collecting feature and we had to talk about the fandoms out there that people go nuts over. We’ve seen that some like Lauren have a number of loves they collect and others, like our Disney pin couple, are focused Read More

Wait, I thought this series was on hiatus while we focused all of 2014 on Fandomanual? Well, yeah, it is but after a weekend living it up in Power Ranger nostalgia there was no other way I could present Power Morphicon except to do it in a Guide Read More