My daughter loves to draw, and is actually pretty good at it for her age. She tells me how when she grows up she wants to be an artist. I tell her she already is.

I have a vast collection of books, and several shelves just for trades and graphic novels. The other day, I see my daughter at the shelves, shoving a wad of papers into a space where all my trades are.
"What are you doing there kiddo?" I ask.
She pulls teh papers out, and hands them to me.
"I made my own book Daddy! Im putting it on the shelf with the rest of them!"

I see that its about 30 pages, each one folded over and put inside the previous one. Each page has a carefully drawn picture of random things, some immediately identifiable, some not. I ask her to read it to me, and she does. The story is long and funny and very intricate and clever in some parts. There are good guys and princesses, and bad guys, and transformers, and all her day care frinds, and grandmas house, a dragon who just wants to be friends, and spooky houses with ghosts and candy to trick kids into coming near the house. There is a hot air balloon that can go to the moon, and a secret treasure that pirates put on the moon so no one could find it. Naturally, its hidden beneath the Home Depot on the moon, under all the wood. Optimus Prime and Megatron help them move the wood and get the treasure and take them back to earth. It just kept going on and on, and her telling was so serious (unless the poeple in the story were actig silly). It was so much funny seeing her little mind just go nuts and come up with all this stuff.

I ended up stapling it together and putting it on the shelf with the rest of my comic books. I also folded and stapled up 5 more books for her to fill. Joking, I said if she made enough books, we would have to get her a table at Comic-con, (The NYCC, which I took her too last year), and now she tells people that she's going to comic con and Daddy is getting her a table to show her books, and also a pretzel and a lemonade.

Man, I love my kids... Anyone want to split a table with a 5 year old?