At Animé Los Angeles 4, eight specially painted benches were displayed, out of ten that were ready. We have photos!

Naruto-Sasuke bench by Christina Patterson.

"Safari Zone" Pokemon bench, by Jessica Gaona.

Emoticons/Chatspeak bench painted by Melissa De Mello.

"Mr. Bear" bench by Bryan Wong, character design by PMBQ.

Mucha-style bench painted by Kelly Mayfield.

"Midnight Tokyo Report" bench by RivetSPOOn and Arianna Unciano.

"Avatar the Last Airbender" bench by Barrie Thomas.

Pokemon bench, by Ashley Armstrong & Michelle Armstrong.

Not pictured: "Cat Bus" bench by Heide Nichols which was transported to the convention but not assembled, and a bench by Leslie Wenglein which is ready for us to pick up.

Your Name Here: Benches in progress for next year.

Melissa De Mello has a bench assembled and another idea to execute. Connie Law has a bench (in pieces), and Lindsay Tallman has the sides for a bench.

Whitney Brown, Leslie Burns, Sarah Goldberg, Elizabeth "Saturn Neko" Jones, Rebecca Livengood, Rissa Northrup, Andrea Pollick, España Sheriff, and Kim Smith have all expressed interested in designing art for a bench.

Our hotel for next year has more room for us to set up benches and beanbags. Would you like to paint an art bench?