Escaping to the 2023 New York Comic Con

In a year that needs a break, the cosplayers came and were seen.

Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Take the 7 Train.
Greg Cohen

Greg Cohen

When even the Naked Cowboy, despite being an emphatic Trump supporter, recently called in to a WNYC talk radio show to decry the deleterious effects of climate change on his Times Square performances, for which he is clad only in his tighty whities (tighty righties?), you know the world is going to Hell in a jockstrap.

And if dressing up and switching personas is the ultimate form of escapism, well, considering the shape of the world right now, we can all use some serious cosplay.

And so they came, for yet another New York Comic Con, up the steep 7 train escalators — high-stepping superheroes, supervillains, psychos, warriors, zombies, gender benders and blenders, anime heartthrobs, and whatever fantasies one can get lost in — for a festive four-day weekend.

Photographer Greg Cohen took to the subways and streets to capture the ids on parade.

Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Hat’s all folks!
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Ups and downs.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Riddle us this.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Pink and then some.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Here’s looking at you, kids.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Crossing on green.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Get here however you can.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
The mighty ones.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Why so serious?
Greg Cohen
Sugar and spike.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Hairsplitters.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Dueling trios.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
What color are your glasses?
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
The one that started it all in 1938.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
The gang’s all here.
Greg Cohen
Village Voice photo essay on the 2023 New York Comic Con
Just another Friday the 13th.
Greg Cohen

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