On Christmas Eve we let the boys open one cool gift and of course their jammies. This year we had a few different “experiences” that we got tickets for to enjoy over the next year. One such experience was to take the boys to their very first “Comic Con” and just so happened that those tickets were the gift that they opened on Christmas Eve before heading to bed.
I decided to “dress up” some and pulled out the top part of my Esmeralda costume from Halloween a few years back and did my make up “heavy” for me and for daytime but if there was going to be any place that I could pull that off it would be at Comicon 🙂
Having never been before we really had no idea what to expect. It really is a large convention with booth after booth of artists, props, costumes, items to buy etc. Then throughout the “con” are different break out sessions. We went on “family day” which was the last day of the convention and we would go again. There was so much art we all wanted to buy.
The boys brought their allowances and Jason and I each said we could pick out 1 item for about $20 a piece to bring home as a momento of the day. it was super cool to watch people create right in front of us- from technical colorists, to sketchers to ole fashioned painters everyone was just in creation mode and the place was buzzing with imagination.
The highlight aside from the experience itself (and sitting on THE lego double decker couch)
was meeting Mat Nastos one of the animators from Phineas and Ferb and him offering to sketch the boys each a personalize drawing right in front of us.- SO cool and SOOOO totally framing them for the walls.
What I really loved was the community- this was a place of so many individuals that outside of those walls would likely be ostersized or ridiculed but here they were stopped to asked for photos and autographs and doted over.
I really loved watching that play out. I would recommend this as a perfect intro to Comicons for all ages. Check it out for here: http://amazingarizonacomiccon.com/
Geroux Crew 