[Groop] ny con report part 1

[sean ferris]

Well... Im a father of 3 and when I first heard that Segio was coming back to NY my wife and I thought we would ditch my 2 youngest at my parents and go together with our 10 yr old daughter...we even emailed M.E. to see the chances of kidnapping Sergio for dinner after the show Sat. and making him eat paella at one of our favorite restaurants in the city BUT that was not to be...My wife was hosting a baby shower and a friend of ours was having a concert ot 8pm SO....I had the bright idea of taking my 2 oldest with me, my daughter Samantha (10) and my son Alex (6)...for 2 weeks before the show I was reconsidering  bringing my 6yr old and was extreamly nervous that it would be a disaster...

Sat. morning we leave for the train at about 8am and everything goes smooth, we get into the city about 9:30...My daughter brought her personal sketch book with her doodles in it but my son does not have one which could lead to considerable  problems later BUT directly acroos for the Con is a Boarders book store where after some searching we find the last unlined journal/sketchbook they have...YAY 

We get in line for the Con at 9:45 and we get to be in the shorter of the 2 because I preordered tix...YAY...we get in the Con 5 or so minutes before 10 and start looking around..I see a very familiar name to me, Mark McKenna, (he lived maybe a mile a way from me for years) I introduced him to my kids and he would have been the 1st sketch in my kids sketch books except he had to run off for a while and asked if we could come back... SO the next guy we saw was Segio...My daughter was very prepared for him...She brought her 25th Special with her and had him sign it, he gave us the 2 hats (Thanks Gary) and signed/sketched them (Im never getting them back from them) My son brought his copy of Groo #111 and had him sign itand then saw the stack of 25th Specials and wanted 1 also so I bought him 1 and my daughter wanted 1 for her friend so I bought her 1... Samantha gave her sketchbook to Sergio and looked through her work and asked her about it and made her feel really good about her art even though she gives up way too easily, and he told her to keep drawing and with practice she will be great 1 day... He found what he deamed as a self portrait and drew a nice Rufferto next to it...He then asked my son what he wanted drawn and when there was no answer I asked him if he wanted a Groo or Rufferto, of course he said "Both!" and Segio being Sergio said "O.K." and somthing about him being a smart boy...So both my kids had their 1st sketches don by Sergio... We chated for a while with Sergio and my kids wanted their picture with him and Sergio instantly made 2 fans for life... at the time I didnt know it but Tom was behind us in line (sorry Tom, if I had known I would have introduced my self sooner)

I will continue later we only saw about another 25 or so artists and stopped by Sergio another 2 times...
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