Being Spider Girl: a day at Comic-Con with a master of make-believe

It's the last day of Comic-Con, and Linda Le is sitting in her hotel room in a black body suit and 6-inch heels, delicately scrunching her long black hair into a hairnet as she completes the transformation into Spider Girl, a Marvel Superhero Costumes uk. "It takes me about two hours to get ready," she said. "So from putting my hair into a hairnet — which people don't usually do, but I don't want my wig to fall off on the floor — then I have to do the drag makeup, which is really funny, then eyelashes."

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Le is part of an elite group of so-called cosplayers — people who dress up as fictional characters on days other than Halloween — who actually make a living from the sport. She spends all year sewing and crafting her outfits, attending conventions, and hosting events as Vampy, her cosplay stage name. Her knowledge of video games and the characters in the Marvel universe is astounding. This year at Comic-Con she appeared as Jun the Swan, from G Force, and Psylocke, an X-Men mutant.

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For cosplayers, there's no bigger stage than Comic-Con. This is where cosplay stars are made. "If a guy looks good in He-Man, he’s going to be a Spiderman Costume uk celebrity overnight because he’s like, the He-Man," Le said. For some people, seeing a person dressed well as a character brings that fiction to life. "It's like, 'Oh, he's real!'"

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