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Cosplay: A History Bibliography

When I published Cosplay: A History back in June 2022, one thing that the book didn't include was a proper "Works Cited" page. Here's the bibliography for the book, with linked added where possible. (Please let me know if any are broken.)

Introduction

  1. Adam Savage, "My Love Letter to Cosplay," filmed July 15, 2016 in Vancouver, Canada, TED Video.

Part One: Fandom and Conventions

Apollo Enthusiasts

  1. "Adam Savage's Apollo A7L Spacesuit Replica!" Adam Savage's Tested, filmed and edited by Joey Fameli, YouTube Video, January 16, 2017.
  2. Nicholas de Monchaux, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (United Kingdom: MIT Press, 2011), 57
  3. Jeff Prucher, ed. Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 208
  4. Prucher, 202.
  5. Prucher, 65.
  6. "Star Team," Toys You Had: Remembering Toys from the 60s to 80s, accessed December 2, 2022.
  7. Andrew Liptak, “Adam Savage on His Live Science Show, Cosplay, and ‘Promoting the Joy in making Things’," The Verge, accessed March 25, 2017.
  8. Andrew Liptak, “Adam Savage Explains Why Space Suits Are His Happy Place,” The Verge, July 23, 2017.
  9. Wayne Neumaier, “Apollo A7L Moon Suit Part 2: Examining the Real Space Suits!” 2StoryProps (website), February 2014.
  10. Mike Wall, “Check Out SpaceX’s New Spacesuit: Elon Musk Shares on Instagram,” Space, September 13, 2017.
  11. “Dragon,” SpaceX (website), accessed December 2, 2021.
  12. Dani Banner, “Creating a SpaceX Suit,” Danban Studio (website), accessed December 2, 2021.
  13. “SpaceX Helmet,” by user Nathan720, Thingiverse (website), March 5, 2019.
  14. “SpaceX Wearable Helmet from Dragon Crew,” from seller Technologyrev, Etsy, accessed December 2, 2021.

Chapter 1: The Origins of Fandom

  1. “Un Bal Costumé Chez Jules Verne” [A Costume Ball at the Home of Jules Verne], Le Monde illustré, 21st year, no. 1044, April 14, 1877.
  2. Herbert R. Lottman, Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 204.
  3. Lydia Smith, “5–10 March 1891: Bovril and the First Ever Sci-Fi Convention, at the Royal Albert Hall,” Royal Albert Hall (website), March 2, 2016.
  4. “‘The Coming Race’ and ‘Vril-Ya’ Bazaar and Fete, in Joint Aid of the West End Hospital, and the School of Massage and Electricity,’” Royal Albert Hall (website).
  5. Alex Palmer, “The Strange Story of the Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fete, the ‘World’s First Sci-Fi Convention,’” Mental Floss, May 31, 2021,
  6. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, A D Condo (entry), updated May 24, 2017.
  7. Luke Plunkett, “Cosplay Is Over 100 Years Old,” Kotaku, May 16, 2016.
  8. “Imitator of ‘Mr. Skygack from Mars’ Is Arrested,” Tacoma Times, vol. VII, no. 67, March 8, 1910, 1.
  9. Ibid
  10. “Wins First Prize as ‘Skygack,” Tacoma Times, vol. IX, no. 133, May 24, 1912, 1.
  11. Forrest J. Ackerman, “I Remember Morojo” (privately printed), February 11, 1965.
  12. Ibid.
  13. Forrest J. Ackerman, “Through Time and Space with Forry Ackerman, Part 1,” Mimosa (magazine), no. 16, December 1994.
  14. Sam Weller, The Ray Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), 95.
  15. Ackerman, “Through Time and Space with Forry Ackerman, Part 1.”
  16. Frederik Pohl, The Way the Future Was (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), 95–96.

Chapter 2: Convention Masquerades

  1. Ackerman, “Through Time and Space with Forry Ackerman, Part 1.”
  2. Harry Warner Jr., All Our Yesterdays: An Informal History of Science Fiction Fandom in the 1940s (Framingham: NESFA Press, 2004), 135–136.
  3. Warner, 135.
  4. “1940 – Chicon I, Chicago,” from the Noreascon 3 program book, 1989.
  5. Warner, All Our Yesterdays, 137.
  6. Ackerman, “Through Time and Space with Forry Ackerman, Part 1.”
  7. Warner, All Our Yesterdays, 137.
  8. William H. Patterson, Jr., Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 1, 1907–1948: Learning Curve (New York: Tor Books, 2010), 279.
  9. Warner, 137.
  10. Warner, 137.
  11. Patterson, Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, 279.
  12. Warner, All Our Yesterdays, 144.
  13. Warner, 205.
  14. “Pacificon Fourth World Science Fiction Convention News,” No. 2, June 1946, .
  15. “Pacificon Program Booklet,” July 1946.
  16. Warner, All Our Yesterdays, 327.
  17. “Torcon Report,” edited and compiled by Edward N. McKeown, published by the House of York for the Torcon Society, Toronto, 1948.
  18. "Science, Fantasy, and Science Fiction,” The Magazine of Facts and Fiction: The Cinvention Supplement to Vol. 2, No. 2, 1950.
  19. “Eleventh World Science Fiction Convention Program Book,” Philadelphia, September 1953.
  20. Dave Kyle, Harlan Ellison, George J. Viksnins, Karl Osen, Norman O. Browne, David Ish, ed., Philcon Reporter, published by and for the Eleventh World Science Fiction Convention, Philadelphia, September 1953.
  21. Mike Resnick, . . . Always a Fan: True Stories from a Life in Science Fiction (Rockville: Wildside Press, 2009), 68.
  22. “World Science Fiction Convention Program,” Chicago, August 30, 1952.
  23. “Masquerade Theme ‘Flying Saucers,’” Who Comes to Science Fiction Conventions?, Bulletin no. 3, June 1952,
  24. “Masquerade Theme ‘Flying Saucers.’”
  25. 55 “Masquerade Theme ‘Flying Saucers.’”
  26. SF Con Progress Report No. 1.
  27. “Progress Report,” SF Con Progress Report #4, San Francisco, August 1954.
  28. “Masquerade,” Clevention Progress Report #2, 13th World Science Fiction Convention, Cleveland, September 1955,
  29. “Masquerade.”
  30. Resnick …Always a Fan, 69.

Chapter 3: Reliving Stories of the Past

  1. “What Is the SCA?” Society for Creative Anachronism (website), accessed December 3, 2021.
  2. “What Is the SCA?”
  3. Michael A. Cramer, Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010): 2.
  4. Cramer, 2.
  5. “BayCon A Report from the Chairmen,” 26th World Science Fiction Convention (BayCon), 1968.
  6. “Phyllis Patterson Dies at 82; Co-founder of Renaissance Pleasure Faire,” Los Angeles Times, June 9, 2014.

Chapter 4: Beyond WorldCon

  1. Resnick, . . . Always a Fan, 70.
  2. Daniel Peretti, Superman in Myth and Folklore (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017), Chapter 6.
  3. Roy Thomas, ed., All-Star Companion Volume 4 (Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing, 2009).
  4. Thomas, 126.
  5. Thomas, 126.
  6. Karen Schnaubelt, “The Genesis and Evolution of Costume-Con,” for Costume-Con 7 program book (1989), revised by Betsy R. Marks Delaney, Costume-ConNections: Home of the Costume-Con Visual Archive (website), accessed December 4, 2021.
  7. Schnaubelt.
  8. “CC01 - Costume-Con 1: Program & Participants,” Costume-ConNections: Home of the Costume-Con Visual Archive (website), accessed December 4, 2021.
  9. “About the International Costumers’ Guild,” International Costumers’ Guild, Inc. (website), accessed December 12, 2021.

Chapter 5: Trek Invasion

  1. Frederik Pohl, ed., Galaxy Science Fiction, vol. 25, no. 3, February 1, 1967, 5–6.
  2. Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak, and Joan Winston, Star Trek Lives! (New York: Bantam Books: 1975), 37.
  3. Astrid Bear, in discussion with the author, January 2020.
  4. Frederik Pohl, ed., Galaxy Science Fiction, 6
  5. Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016), 530.
  6. Camille Bacon-Smith, Science Fiction Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 56.
  7. Evelyn C. Leeper, “LaCon II,” Fanac (website), accessed January 19, 2022.
  8. Andrew Liptak, “Carrie Vaughn’s Immersive Worlds,” Transfer Orbit (newsletter), June 22, 2021.
  9. Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction: Palgrave Histories of Literature (United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 394.
  10. Lichtenberg, Marshak, and Winston, Star Trek Lives!, 5
  11. Ibid, 67.

Chapter 6: The Summer of 1977

  1. David Rhea, in conversation with author, May 2019.
  2. Kristin Baver, “Most Impressive Fans: The Story of What May Be the First Darth Vader Cosplay,” Star Wars (website), July 12, 2017.
  3. Debbie King, photographer, “Masquerade - ???, Seth Lady, Leia Organa, Obi-wan Kenobie, Wookie Smokeweed, Vader Raider, R2-D1, Cori Piratess,” The Fanac Fan History Project (website), http://www.fanac.org /photohtm.php?worldcon/SunCon/w77m003.
  4. Peggy Ann Dolan, photographer, “Elliott Shorter and Chewbacca Escorting Corey Seidman During the Banquet,” caption by Ted Greenstone, updated by Amy Wolfthal and Joe Siclari, // The Fanac Fan History Project (website).
  5. “Princess Leia. ???” The Fanac Fan History Project (website).

Chapter 7: Legions of Fans

  1. Brandon Alinger, Star Wars: Costumes Original Trilogy (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2014), 29.
  2. “Our Story,” Shepperton Design Studios + originalstormtrooper.com (website), accessed December 4, 2021.
  3. J. W. Rinzler, The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007), 138–139.
  4. Ryder Windham and Adam Bray, Star Wars Stormtroopers: Beyond the Armor (New York: Harper Design, 2017), 48.
  5. Windham and Bray, 60.
  6. “Marco Armor,” Star Wars Helmets (website), accessed December 4, 2021.
  7. Josh Ling, photographer, “Marco’s Stormtrooper Armor,” description by Chris Georgoulias, from the collection of Steve Sansweet, The Star Wars Collectors Archive (website), accessed December 4, 2021.
  8. Jeff Allen, in conversation with the author, January 2020.
  9. “Definitive Stormtrooper Costume How-To: Introduction,” Studio Creations (website), accessed December 4, 2021.
  10. Jeff Allen, in conversation with the author, January 2020.
  11. Albin Johnson, “501st Legion History: 1997,” Albin Johnson (website), accessed December 4, 2021.
  12. Ibid.
  13. Ibid.
  14. Ibid.
  15. Ibid.
  16. Ibid.
  17. Cheralyn Lambeth, “My first set of (cardboard!) biker scout armor at a premiere of Return of the Jedi Special Edition in Greensboro, NC, Summer 1997,” Facebook, January 2, 2020.
  18. Albin Johnson, “The Birth of the 501st Legion Part One: Studies in Trooping,” Star Wars (website), August 17, 2012.
  19. Albin Johnson, “The Birth of the 501st Legion, Part 3: Let the Wookiee Win,” Star Wars (website), September 27, 2012.
  20. Albin Johnson, “The Birth of the 501st Legion, Part 5: Build It and They Will Come,” Star Wars (website), November 20, 2012.
  21. Ibid.
  22. Cheralyn Lambeth in conversation with the author, January 2020.
  23. Albin Johnson, “501st Legion History: 1998,” Albin Johnson (website), accessed December 3, 2021.
  24. Albin Johnson, “501st Legion History: 1999,” Albin Johnson (website), December 3, 2021.
  25. Donna Keeley, “Celebrating the Good Guys: The History of the Rebel Legion,” Star Wars (website), June 26, 2015.
  26. Robert Letts, in conversation with the author, October 2021.
  27. “405th Costuming Club Mantle,” 405th Infantry Division: Build Your Character (website), accessed December 4, 2021.
  28. Evan Narcisse, “The Biggest Halo Cosplay Yet,” Kotaku, March 30, 2015.
  29. “Largest Star Wars Costuming Group,” Guinness World Records, November 18, 2020.
  30. “A Brief History of STARFLEET International,” STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association (website), accessed December 4, 2021.
  31. M. Blackburn in conversation with the author, February 2020.
  32. Ibid.