Lurking around Long Beach...
Yesterday we headed upstate a bit to the Long Beach Comic Book Convention. For this con we decided to bring everyone ( including my brother-in-law, Rob) so we piled six of us into a sedan and away we went for a two hour drive towards LA. The children were almost shockingly well behaved for such a long journey in crowded conditions (they must be coming down with something).
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Anyway we went in to register and immediately ran into Seth Green (famous movie star, cool!) and he was awesome enough to pose for a photo for me (I'm behind the camera). Here's Mike, Seth and Phoebe (and of course, Marshall, our Czech friend).
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This convention was really nice and low key and we got lots of pictures of the kids posing with various colorful characters.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRAk2GPPfA8mMxocg8awJGiiXbcMtexXwURbSBMldc583Q9oZR8I3c0qkNRim6omyWw6xW7My4AlOOLuZiKKAgpJINs0Ka9_KBBMMEYqb6JgqUfaX46dmpNCY7hE_OHXVhYWhzPP9u6P8/s400/R2D2.gif)
"Take a picture we will!"
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Here's Mike goofing around with "The Predator". Mike once, drew some covers for a comic with this guy in them for Dark Horse (Publishing company).
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We ran into many friends there. This is one of them, cartoonist Ben Glendenning, he agreed to draw a picture of Marshall for the girls.
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It came out great!
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We also saw an old friend of ours from school, Brett Lewis who I hadn't seen in 16 years. He writes for all the big companies now, and except for the hat, looked exactly the same!
All in all a pretty good con, though I'm not sure how much actual business we took care of. :)
Anyway we went in to register and immediately ran into Seth Green (famous movie star, cool!) and he was awesome enough to pose for a photo for me (I'm behind the camera). Here's Mike, Seth and Phoebe (and of course, Marshall, our Czech friend).
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtm4wnlNM0oWInHAqeKkNSj6ioEiA4WtlhCvLtxamRwKvBCIJkELsy8ovljgWqE5ERGPG1gZZuMj6qD2VTJtl_D6c48-nTZKu1MiQHRvIhFlVgWC7NdNBotAw5eTnAe75IZWxee32pUE/s400/Seth,-Phoebe,-Mike-and-Mars.gif)
This convention was really nice and low key and we got lots of pictures of the kids posing with various colorful characters.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRAk2GPPfA8mMxocg8awJGiiXbcMtexXwURbSBMldc583Q9oZR8I3c0qkNRim6omyWw6xW7My4AlOOLuZiKKAgpJINs0Ka9_KBBMMEYqb6JgqUfaX46dmpNCY7hE_OHXVhYWhzPP9u6P8/s400/R2D2.gif)
"Take a picture we will!"
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Here's Mike goofing around with "The Predator". Mike once, drew some covers for a comic with this guy in them for Dark Horse (Publishing company).
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCR8tdqHBdAkI6el_rbi2NYKoTfonLdyeNVu_euAkjX6gYhfERNNUxXZQIuC5flPZUYHYBUbcbIuV7FF1xe_e_2QGgN7xOe46pCsC0w5O3LDhDfBvg62cwuvgFlBUQuHRrJWc9iQVQio/s400/Mike+under+attack.jpg)
We ran into many friends there. This is one of them, cartoonist Ben Glendenning, he agreed to draw a picture of Marshall for the girls.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnn3EZYO5I5CqN8_DbzRYVUOjXUCM3JwP3pEvMdMMEHMRgr4EwsdQFXFROgJs0onrjfwGE-jc0oQbhP6lCgC44pJwMUr4pkuvqT8vJRUQQXXyfCAsu_ptG4GFkX940lOJpxU6mg0K8zgc/s400/Ben-drawing.gif)
It came out great!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq5Ne3_G2Ld6KAeAa1pOFG79zat3JRDGwhhJtBylmabqJI9DKBjJFuLwpIxz_L1x4d06csVFc21GhwgtpscX9_PlbA00cUqFY7v1bKTg0hMJXnEFh92RxT-6Ex5MtelwVKn4UhSDdlcjQ/s400/Marshall+by+Ben.jpg)
We also saw an old friend of ours from school, Brett Lewis who I hadn't seen in 16 years. He writes for all the big companies now, and except for the hat, looked exactly the same!
All in all a pretty good con, though I'm not sure how much actual business we took care of. :)
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