All your Yipe! are belong to us: Issue 2.9, Giant Size Otaku, available for download

[kproche]

Yipe! takes this opportunity to build one Giant Size Otaku, reflecting on the early days of anime fandom and the seemingly boundless growth of the cosplay community. Karen Dick graces us our pages with her personal story of the seminal days of anime costuming, complete with pictures of her Starblazers and Captain Harlock creations from what might be considered the dawn of Cosplay.

Then Dawn McKechnie takes us on a tour ofAnime North, Toronto’s sprawling home to cosplayers, masqueraders, ravers, lolitas, and maids alike.

España chimes in with her own take on the glory of Cosplay and anime fandom before bashing the hell out of them for being prettier and more talented than her, then Kevin sets the wayback machine to his own childhood and dredges up his formative years influenced by Kimba the White Lion, Astro Boy, and 8-Man.

I resume my unending thesis paper on anime fandom vs. general fandom in our later pages, then Mette Hedin returns to form with 10 Questions for Bay Area Cosplayer Mea.

Incendiary? Perhaps. Definitely one big damn fanzine.

All available for free download from http://www.yipezine.com !

Comments

[caprine.livejournal.com]

Fun edition! Thanks for your work on it.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

1) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I appear to have missed the date. :(

2) I've been wondering - whence the origin of the name "Yipe"?

(To me, anyway, in my perhaps unworldly and naive nature, the name really sounds like it evokes the Furry Fandom genre (which, I might add, is an often unfairly denigrated fandom, but I digress...), but it would not seem - to me - to be a term I'd think of as relatable to costuming in general.)

[kproche.livejournal.com]

We wanted a one-word title.
We aspire to be something like "LIFE" (although we are mostly just happy to be better than "People"
"Yipe!" itself is inspired by Wile E Coyote's little sign. It's more a reference to implementing grand plans in public venues than to furry.

We settled on the name at 3 in the morning in the Fanzine Lounge After Dark at the Montreal Worldcon.