Gabi Campanario, the founder of Urban Sketchers, has started his own publishing company called Sketcher Press which includes a wonderful storytelling magazine called On the Spot.
I pitched a story last year about my and Cincinnati's toy history and this article is the result.
The Bionic Hair Salon I played with as a kid. Turns out that having well-styled hair is as important as taking care of one's bionic components. I did the illustrations in marker in honor of all the marker renderings I did as a coop student at Kenner.
This ashtray illustration makes me laugh. When I first started dating Troy, I remember he and many other employees using the Easy Bake Oven pans as ashtrays.
It is a great trip down memory lane in some ways, and a sad loss of a Cincinnati institution in others. It was so interesting to research the story and write it. Gabi is a good editor.
