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Remember back in elementary school at lunch time how there were two things that made your lunch cool: what was in your lunch bag and what decorated the outside. I grew up in the 80s when we had lunch boxes - the old metal ones with a Thermos inside! I remember having a Star Wars, Knight Rider, and my favorite, Transformers lunch boxes. That was really the only thing to get excited about as a kid when it came to back to school shopping: picking out your lunch box.

Our kids today have lunch bags that totally make what we had growing up seem lame. And I'd argue that their lunch "snacks" beat what we had too! There's one dad in Atlanta though who is trying to bring back the Brown Bag… Derek Benson started drawing on his kids' brown paper lunch bags in 2008, and they've become such a hit that his kids' friends and teachers have started collecting them (and he's gathered quite a following online). A video game developer with a background in graphic art, Benson finds inspiration in the TV shows and books he shares with his kids Dana, 12, Dylan, 8, and Liam, 6 -- lots of Japanese animation and other "geeky" stuff. Take a look at this art here on Tumblr.