Today is the 50th anniversary of the Etch A Sketch. It was invented in the late 1950s by André Cassagnes, a Frenchman, who named it L'Ecran Magique (the magic screen). The Ohio Art Company bought the ...

The Etch A Sketch, a popular children’s toy since the 1960s, isn’t just for botched circles and horizontal lines. There are actual Etch A Sketch artists out there. Most are hobbyists, including Andrea ...

Daneeca Medina didn’t see what the big deal was. Until her friends were standing around the kitchen table in that dumbfounded way. Until classmates started hovering over her shoulders. Until strangers ...

(CNN Newsource) —It’s the well-known child’s toy for the budding artist in us all–the etch-a-sketch! While many of us spent hours just trying to use it to draw simple shape, one Indiana artist is ...

Unless you’re a savant born with unnatural abilities for using two knobs to create artistic masterpieces, the Etch A Sketch drawing toy gets less appealing the older you get. I was surprised to find ...

1960: The Etch a Sketch goes on sale. The technology behind this children's toy is both simple and complex. Simple, in that an internal stylus is used, manipulated by turning horizontal and vertical ...

Many people are lucky if they can make a straight line on an Etch A Sketch, but Chicago native Jane Labowitch puts us all to shame. The 24-year-old Horner Park resident and self-proclaimed Princess ...

A very talented Pokemon Scarlet and Violet fan recently decided to share their impressive Etch-a-Sketch drawing of Quaxly on a forum, which is quickly racking up hundreds of likes. While Quaxly's cute ...

Jason learned to read playing Pokemon Crystal on the Game Boy Color, and hasn't looked back. He received a Journalism degree at California State University, Fullerton while working on news coverage ...