UPDATED ON 8/20/21: Facebook, Patreon and Blog IG pages have been shutdown/discontinued As the COVID pandemic rages on and cons are even shutting down into 2021, it got me thinking on a drive home one night about how I'd feel with even coming back to blogging. When cons eventually do come back at some point. Truth be told, many of the posts and content I shared here could be transferred over to more discussions via my podcast CosplayBytes. I've been blogging my love for games, cons and cosplay for 7 years now and maybe it's time to say goodbye for now? My podcast has gotten me some incredible opportunities as a member of Press for conventions, and the rapid love I've had for streaming is also taking up a lot of time now. On top of multiple personal things on my end, I don't think I have the energy to keep this up even post COVID you know? The very first cosplay centered post I wrote was on Jessica Nigri's Deadpool, and since then it's spawned over 800 posts
At RI Comic Con last weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview the amazingly talented Ivy Doomkitty! For those who are unaware, Ivy is a famous cosplayer who really puts in a lot of love into her outfits. Having been cosplaying for more than 5 years (the exact number you'll learn in the video), she has gained a following amassing of over 300,000 fans. Her appearance/figure is one of the many other draws on top of her down to earth personality and caring about other cosplayers. You'll notice that yes this is a Part 1 Interview so there will be a second part down the road. Ivy gave such amazing answers that I hope you all will enjoy though and I can't thank her enough for sitting down with me <3. In terms of what got her into liking all of this geek media from gaming to comics, it was simply being raised up on it when she was younger. Ivy recalls things like the Super Nintendo being her first ever game system.
She talked about her last convention--Comikaze--briefly and mentioned the cosplays she wore to it. Along with the ones she had plans to wear here. For the day this was conducted, Ivy was wearing her Slytherin inspired outfit complete with a gorgeous corset done by her friends at Castle Corsetry. Emperor Kuzco and Velma were her other cosplays brought for RICC. It definitely seemed fitting considering RICC is sort of a relaxed convention. Ivy enjoyed herself there so far with it being the first time in Rhode Island. Of course, food was one of the notable things Ivy loved being a huge food person and all as well.
Photo by Geri Kramer Phtography
Other things you'll get to learn about Ivy include her first cosplay ever created, the specifics that went into her Altair cosplay (which is one of my favorites she's done), and even into her Pin Up/Modeling career that she's done. Surprisingly the latter existed before she started cosplaying which not many people seemed to know. This includes me, I had always thought that the style was eventually explored through cosplaying. Doing pin-up versions of characters and what not.
I want to apologize if it is a bit hard to hear us both in the video. I underestimated the noise levels of crowd. Plus, our area was walled off from the rest of the convention due to it being double booked. It meant a lot to me hearing from Ivy how much fun she had so I do hope you all enjoy getting to know her a little more :D
Photo by Eurobeat Kasumi Photography. Edit by SGH PhotoArt
Photo by Geri Kramer Photography
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Photo by Saffels Photography
Photo by Saffels Photography
I want to thank Ivy so so much again for allowing me to interview her. I've wanted to for so long so this was lots of fun for me. It also allowed me to learn more about how to make convention interviews much better. I'll try to get in touch with Ivy soon to work out doing the second part. This could be either online or through Google Hangout. Ivy, you're an amazing person and I'm alway happy in helping with supporting your awesome cosplay work. Here are links to Ivy's pages to follow her! I also included her Print Store as well.
