Hundreds of Cosplayers descended at the High School of Art and Design for its Annual Fanfaire Festival, with a Grim Reaper homemade gain winning gold for the best costume.
The two -day event organized during the weekend in the high school gymnasium rivals the Comic of New York City much larger and more popular with professionals who make their creative dreams come true.
“Our goal here is to make sure that if you have an idea, they can express them with confidence,” said director Maximillian Re-Surgeuar to The Post Sunday.
“People need to know that artistic education is holistic, and it is a human education. They are connecting people, and sometimes we forget that in the technocratic confusion of the moment. And I think we do a really beautiful work of humanity of what it is.”
The weekend bonanza marked the eighth annual fanfaire at the Manhattan School of Arts, which has super famous students such as the late singer Tony Bennett, designers Calvin Klein and Marc Jacobs and the legend of living comics Neal Adams.
The weekend event included boxes or workshops led by leading artists in their fields, and encouraged the student body of 1,400 people to establish a store in the cafeteria and commit their own art, fashion and board games.
The school for young professionals implemented an internship this year in collaboration with ETSY that offers students the opportunity to manage their own businesses.
However, the highlight of the event was Sunday’s cosplay contest, which presented superheroes, princesses and anime characters, but the Grim Reaper stole the show.
Quinn, 21, took the stage with an original version of the mythological character, which included a cane, a face painted blue and even partner, Lucifer.
“I did it in 18 hours in a row,” said Quinn, who identifies with them/they pronouns. Quinn’s feathensive tie only took about eight hours of work and were still working in their platform boots the same morning of the festival, they said.
Quinn, 21, is a fan of the Autodecibe comic, and has attended each “scam” to reach the Big Apple from his father to his first time a decade ago.
“It’s very powerful, but I like to enjoy a rich natural culture and ask ‘What can we create that hasbet created yet?” “Quinn said.” So bringing original paper characters to life is always something I enjoy, it is my essence in its entirety. Which makes me create all the theses and then create the way I see myself today. “
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Quinn faced another 22 competitors disguised, a range that included a Renaissance woman, Navia Caspar of the anime “Genshin Impact” and two spider men, one of whom they dramatically jumped from the stage.
It was the originality of Quinn that granted them first place, the character came to them in a dream, and they found themselves obsessively drawing the Grim Reaper Reaper long long long length for three months before in a real life costume.
They simply made a rain of ideas to Lucifer as the Grim Reaper servant, embodied by friend Luciano Pérez, 21, whom he encouraged to follow the cosplay two years after meeting Quinn.
In a victory speech, Quinn encouraged others to act on his creative ideas: “Never stop creating. Whether an image or a drawing or just something small, just stay in it. Pass it to life and make it happen.”
