If you’re anything like me, you start thinking about your Halloween costume before October even begins. So how would you like to win a prize for coming up with an awesome costume?

Put on your best corsets and engineer’s vests and head to Pickering Wharf in Salem, MA for the second annual Steampunk Invasion.

New York Comic Con has extended the submission deadline for Masquerade entries for their 2011 event due to that little hurricane matter you may have heard about.

There are thousands of cosplay websites out there. I’ve trawled the internet, poking cosplay forums and consulting the Facebook pages of my costumer associates, and I’ve come up with a list of the five best cosplay sites out there.

Right after Comic-Con we posted a round of cosplayer photos. We’ve had a chance to sift through more of our SDCC 2011 photos and now bring you Round 2 of cosplay from this year’s Con.