Browsing: Childhood

Brecht Evensis a Belgian cartoonist living and working in Paris who is known for his painted graphic narratives which mix the mundane and the mystical, includingPanther,The Making Of, andThe City of Belgium. His most recent work,The Jellyfish King, is the first volume of a proposed trilogy following the life of Arthur, an imaginative young boy…

After Kenner’s iconic Star Wars line of toys went out of production somewhere around the early ’80s, Hasbro jumped at the chance to fill the void with its G.I. Joe line of toys. Unique figures split across two factions, with each figure coming with unique accessories; it was a tried and tested formula that couldn’t…

Replaying childhood games can stir powerful nostalgia, but the magic often fades because memory, identity, attention and gaming skills change with age.

A grown man laid out a shelf’s worth of 1998 movie tie-in figures in the middle of the woods, filmed it like a nature documentary, and only then turned the camera on himself. That’s the entire premise of a video that pulled in 1.5 million views, more than 36 times what its creator usually gets,…

For generations of kids, Arthur Read and the residents of Elwood City were simply part of growing up. There were books waiting at the library, afternoons spent watching the PBS Kids series and plenty of everyday problems that somehow felt a little easier to understand once Arthur and his friends had worked through them first.