449 – Dressing the X-Men, with Russell Dauterman

In which artist Russell Dauterman joins us to discuss super-powered costume design!

X-PLAINED:

• Why it’s important to get a professional to design your superhero costume
• Why Miles doesn’t trust the government
• Russell’s history at Marvel
• Designing for the Hellfire Gala
• Mutant fashion
• The word “fashionize”
• Iconic looks
• Modernizing superhero costumes
• Powers vs. personality
• Punk goddess Storm
• Designing for drawability
• Magic hair
• Russell’s influences
• Definitive Rogue costumes
• X-Men ‘97
• Best X-team costumes
• Jay’s holy grail cosplay
• Magic hair, cosplayed
• Costume retrospectives
• Where to find Russell online
• Evil twin trends of the 1990s
• Fuck You Pink

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