A couple of years ago, I picked up an Etch-A-Sketch for the first time since playing with one as a child growing up in the ’90s. I’ll admit, back then, it was one of my least favorite toys. It was so ...

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 ...

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 ...

Etch A Sketch is one of those toys nearly everyone had, but almost no one was good at using. Perhaps that was just me, as art is not my forte and it took a lot of coordination to use the thing.

As long as it’s existed the Etch-A-Sketch has been sold as a drawing toy, but in reality that couldn’t be a more inaccurate description. Using two twisty knobs is just about the least intuitive way to ...

Etch A Sketch will draw a new path for itself after its first shakeup in a half century. The Bryan, Ohio-based metal lithography firm that owned the famously rectangular, red, mechanical drawing toy ...