Fantasy Fans Revel at Mexico Comic Convention
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July 30, 2013
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Resumen primer día de la comic con la mole México Julio 2013 (Brian Miguel León)

MEXICO CITY — The worldwide cult of cosplay is seeing a boom across Latin America, spread by increasing legions of fans of comics and video games.

Many of the 17,000 people who attended Mexico's most established comics convention over the weekend wandered the halls dressed in a riotous variety of costumes, from Spiderman to the video elf Sylvannas Windrunner.

The costume play trend, which emerged in Japan and the United States several decades ago, features people who dress up as fantasy figures from films, anime, comic books and video games.

It can get very elaborate. And expensive.

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