YIPE! » JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com The Costume Fanzine of Record             (ISSN 2157-8478) Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:42:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Press “Start” to Continue http://www.yipezine.com/?p=327 http://www.yipezine.com/?p=327#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:33:29 +0000 JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com/?p=327 Do you love video games?

No?  Boy, this isn’t the issue for you, then…

We’ve got mockery of WoWers, Kevin’s words with an 8-bit video game priestess, random shots of  Team Fortress 2 cosplayers, Mette’s in-depth examination of the evolution of video games and how that’s affected video game costuming, 10 questions for Lance Ikegawa (the most impressive video game costumer/cosplayer we’ve ever seen)– every Achievement on the dashboard!


YIPE! Volume 3, Issue 10, “Don’t Hate the Cosplayer, Hate the Game,” is now available for download:

Volume 3 Issue 11 is up for pre-order and now comes with a free in-game hat for your character to wear!  If you have something to submit (or want to send a letter of comment), contact us at editors (at) yipezine.com

]]> http://www.yipezine.com/?feed=rss2&p=327 0 Reno you are, but what are we? http://www.yipezine.com/?p=304 http://www.yipezine.com/?p=304#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:17:49 +0000 JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com/?p=304 Do you like WorldCon?  Sure, we all do.  So much so, we dedicated an entire issue to the Yipe staff’s antics at last month’s WorldCon in Reno.

That masquerade Kevin was plugging all year?  We did it.

The secret costume Mette wouldn’t let us talk about?  She’s showing it.

Scarecrow’s brain?  España stole it.

And, for your amusement, all these delightful antics are served up in 60 full-color pages of the biggest little zine to ever almost-but-not-quite nearly qualify for the Hugo shortlist.

YIPE! Volume 3, Issue 9, “RENOvated,” is now available for download:

Volume 3 Issue 10 will soon be coming to a website near you.  This one!  If you have something to submit (or want to send a letter of comment), contact us at editors (at) yipezine.com

]]> http://www.yipezine.com/?feed=rss2&p=304 5 Excelsior! http://www.yipezine.com/?p=284 http://www.yipezine.com/?p=284#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:13:31 +0000 JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com/?p=284 Just in time for ComiCon, Yipe! proudly presents our first ever issue dedicated to Superheroes.  DC, Marvel, that weird, not-quite-DC-not-quite-Marvel universe Watchmen takes place in (that’s actually a variant of the old Charlton universe DC absorbed)– WE GOTS IT ALL!

España rants about Wonder Woman, then Mette brow beats the people trying to get upskirt shots of Wonder Woman at ComiCon.  We have 10 Questions for twin Superhero cosplayers Daniel and David Proctor when suddenly friend of Yipe! Palle Madsen lays some WonderCon history on us.  Kevin opens up the vault to present his own superhero story from 1976, and Stan Lee closes our issue with a scandalous admission.*

YIPE! Volume 3, Issue 7, “The One with Wolverine on the Cover,” is now available for download:

Volume 3 Issue 8 is already in the works!  If you have something to submit (or want to send a letter of comment), contact us at editors (at) yipezine.com

*Disclaimer:  Stan Lee does not actually appear in this issue and would likely never admit anything to us, scandalous or otherwise.

]]> http://www.yipezine.com/?feed=rss2&p=284 0 Something Old, Something New http://www.yipezine.com/?p=275 http://www.yipezine.com/?p=275#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:34:44 +0000 JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com/?p=275 It is the last day of June, and, dammit, we were all set on having a June wedding (issue).

So we shook down some friends and well-wishers (in that they don’t wish us any particular harm) to cobble together for you the ultimate costumed wedding fanzine.  Admittedly, it’s easy to be king of the mountain when there isn’t another peak around for miles (or a disenfranchised monarch, for that matter), but we conquered that thing and planted our flag at the summit.

España delves into the surprisingly recent history of the wedding dress, Kevin takes us back to his Spaceballs-inspired ceremony, Kathe Gust involves the SCA, and new Yipers Meg Creelman and Yvette Keller open their wedding albums to show us how a costumer really gets married.

YIPE! Volume 3, Issue 6, “Unbridaled,” is now available for download:

Volume 3 Issue 7 is already in the works!  If you have something to submit (or want to send a letter of comment), contact us at editors (at) yipezine.com

 

]]> http://www.yipezine.com/?feed=rss2&p=275 0 Hitting the road in style http://www.yipezine.com/?p=120 http://www.yipezine.com/?p=120#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:58:45 +0000 JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com/?p=120 We all just slapped on our Travel Clothes, loaded up a suitcase, and set out for wherever the wind would take us.  Or any airport Southwest had a deal on.  Not important.

Sure, Kevin didn’t have to go so far for the PEERS Le Bal des Vampires, but it was entertaining, filled with costumes, and beyond walking distance.  Plus:  vampires.
Ms. Sheriff made us all look like wimps with her trip to D.C., but it was the unintended stopover in NYC that put her smack in the middle of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade; a festival so far gone we aren’t legally allowed to show most of the photos.
Beloved Yipe! contributor Bob Hole graces us with some pictures of just what you need to wear when visiting Scotland and attempting to make everyone think you’re a genuine Scot in such a way no one will believe you at all.
And, of course, our own Mette Hedin serves as clean-up with her long-awaited report on Las Vegas’ incomparable Punk Rock Bowling tournament.  Oddly enough, the photos are all perfectly legal to display in a fanzine.  Madness.
So keep reading, costume lovers.  We scoured the… well, we left the house and mostly used large commercial vehicles to bring you the words and images you see here today.  How many fanzines can say the same?
Don’t answer that.

YIPE! Volume 2, Issue 11, “Travel Clothes,” is now available for download:

Volume 2 Issue 12 will soon be coming to a website near you.  This one!  If you have something to submit (or want to send a letter of comment), contact us at editors (at) yipezine.com

]]> http://www.yipezine.com/?feed=rss2&p=120 0 All your Yipe! are now belong to us! http://www.yipezine.com/?p=109 http://www.yipezine.com/?p=109#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:38:56 +0000 JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com/?p=109 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.

YIPE! Volume 2, Issue 9, “Giant Size Otaku,” is now available for download:

Volume 2 Issue 10 will soon be coming to a website near you.  This one!  If you have something to submit (or want to send a letter of comment), contact us at editors (at) yipezine.com

]]> http://www.yipezine.com/?feed=rss2&p=109 0 Cool down with a tall, icey glass of Yipe! http://www.yipezine.com/?p=92 http://www.yipezine.com/?p=92#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:02:05 +0000 JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com/?p=92 Longtime friend of Yipe! and first time writer Chris O’Halloran starts us off with some musings on the many regrets of masquerade stage crews.  Then we look back to the last transmission from Anti-Kevin, translate it into English, and completely fail to orient the lettering to the dimensions of our… dimension.


España retorts against herself by judging a masquerade for the first time, then I clog up the page count with messages scrawled when I lost my voice at BayCon in “Diary of a Mute Fan.”

Finally, Kevin steps out of the Wayback Machine with old partner in crime Jennifer Tifft in tow because Mette’s too busy trotting around the globe to be bothered with 10 Questions for a Costumer.

YIPE! Volume 2, Issue 7, “Dregs,” is now available for download:

Volume 2 Issue 8 is already in the works!  If you have something to submit (or want to send a letter of comment), contact us at editors (at) yipezine.com

]]> http://www.yipezine.com/?feed=rss2&p=92 0 Yipe! goes to BayCon http://www.yipezine.com/?p=87 http://www.yipezine.com/?p=87#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:15:17 +0000 JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com/?p=87 Our first BayCon tale comes from our good friend Leo Schwab, who writes of his out of costume life as a man everyone accuses of being in costume.  The awkwardness is reinforced by Joanne Pelaschier’s take on her first ever outing to the San Francisco Bay Area’s… um… BayConiest… convention?

Then, right on schedule, España gives the Masquerade system an atomic wedgie and steals its lunch money.  Longtime reader and first-time contributor Deborah Bretschneider follows with the tale of “Eat the Guests”, BayCon’s first attempt at a zombiewalk… or zombie sit, as the case may be.
And, because we’re all a bunch of selfish bastards who can’t stop talking about ourselves for one instant, Mette puts us back on track with 10 questions for Cosplay goddess and BayCon regular Karisu.

YIPE! Volume 2, Issue 6, “We’ll Take It In A Little,” is now available for download:

Volume 2 Issue 7 will soon be coming to a website near you.  This one!  If you have something to submit (or want to send a letter of comment), contact us at editors (at) yipezine.com

]]> http://www.yipezine.com/?feed=rss2&p=87 0 It’s a cavalcade of interviews! http://www.yipezine.com/?p=80 http://www.yipezine.com/?p=80#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 07:17:05 +0000 JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com/?p=80 We sat down at some conventions with some of our favorite costumers, got good and loaded, and were dumb enough to record the exchanges for your perusal.

First, Radar gets together with beloved masquerader Cordelia Willis to analyze the process of large group performances from concept to execution.  Then Kevin assembles a review of some of his favorite humorous costumes, culminating in the ultimate hall costume/religious event:  The Great Washed.


As per usual, España tears us all a new one because we can’t stop making great costumes based on terrible books and movies.  I enter the fray with an interview of Rockabilly fiend and ne’er-do-well Sylvia Muñoz, and Mette Hedin returns with another episode of 10 Questions for a Costumer, this time putting Galifrey One and Comicon skit master Bob Mitsch in the hot seat.

YIPE! Volume 2, Issue 5, “Hem and Haw,” is now available for download:

Volume 2 Issue 6 cannot be stopped!  Are you willing to join the madness?  If you have something to submit (or want to send a letter of comment), contact us at editors (at) yipezine.com

]]> http://www.yipezine.com/?feed=rss2&p=80 1 Hot off the press: The YIPE! Steampunk Special http://www.yipezine.com/?p=72 http://www.yipezine.com/?p=72#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:29:58 +0000 JSchachat http://www.yipezine.com/?p=72 48 Steamy pages!  Featuring the return of beloved YIPE! writer Leigh Ann Hildebrand for the hard question we all have to ask:  what happened to the punk in Steampunk?  Our popular columnist Espana Sheriff retorts in her latest Sheriff Don’t Like It, then I ruin the whole flow with some short fiction set in an alternate history Nieuw Amsterdam.  We finally get back on topic with Steampunk Punk Priestess Mette Hedin in a new YIPE! feature: 10 Questions for a Costumer featuring this month’s sacrifi– guest, Kathe Gust.


YIPE! Volume 2, Issue 4, “Steamer Trunk,” is now available for download:

Volume 2 Issue 5 will soon be coming to a website near you.  This one!  If you have something to submit (or want to send a letter of comment), contact us at editors (at) yipezine.com

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