A month ago Otaku Sanctuary magazine presented the SoCal Cosplay Ball. LA Weekly had details:
Back in January of 2009, when Shannon Cottrell and I covered Anime Los Angeles together for the first time, we met Ginger Burton. At the time, Burton was a student at California State University Northridge who had started a cosplay business.
We've kept in touch with Burton over the past two years and she's accomplished quite a bit since then. She finished school and has popped up at many of the conventions we've attended, oftentimes promoting her commission-based business, GNB Cosplay or sometimes helping with friend Ejen Chuang's photography book Cosplay in America . She also started her own magazine, Otaku Sanctuary, dedicated to the art of dressing as your favorite characters. Most recently, though, she launched SoCal Cosplay Ball, a one-day event where locals could come together for performances, dinner and a formal dance.
It looked a little something like this:
[Source: LA Weekly]