KAZOO magazine

12/04/2025

Make a DIY Drawing Machine! If you’ve ever wondered how an Etch a Sketch works, you’ll love Kazoo’s mechanical drawing toy. Our version works like the classic toy (the pulley system connected to k***s moves the cursor to draw lines) but you can see *how* it works from the inside out. Full instructions in Kazoo 39, The Drawing Issue, on stands now. Check our page to see our drawing machine in action.

12/01/2025

Hot off the Presses 🔥 The Drawing Issue. Grab a pencil and let’s goooo!

Featuring the most amazing line-up of artists: ‼️

Plus, an original story by National Book Award finalist , advice from pencil-maker Katie Vanoncini, and mind-blowing visual facts from biologist Erica Westerman, Ph.D. ➕28 pages of in-book activities to keep any child engaged for hours.

Kazoo magazine no 39, The Drawing Issue, on stands 12/1/2025. Shipping to subscribers daily through the holidays. To get this issue, subscribe now.

11/28/2025

Share Kazoo w a friend and save 50%.

Buy 1 subscription & get 1 gift subscription for 50% off. Perfect for sharing w friends, cousins, or teachers.

Thank you for joining us in the movement to raise strong, confident girls. :)

*No code required. Subscribe for 1 year, then select: “”+Add another Gift Recipient” at checkout. This weekend only. Sale ends December 1, 2025.

11/25/2025

It’s been almost 10 years since I signed off our very first printing of Kazoo. (Look at that cover!) Our first issue sold-out almost immediately. We’ve since published 38 more, and now have subscribers in 53 countries around the world. Many readers have been with us from the beginning, and this Thanksgiving, I’m especially grateful to you.

If you don’t have all the earliest issues of Kazoo, subscribe now, or renew early, and you’ll get the back-issue of your choice as a free gift.

Thank you for joining us in the movement to raise strong, confident girls. We’re excited to keep going and growing.

—Erin Bried, Founder & Editor of Kazoo magazine

11/22/2025

We’re tickled to have Artist Jane Labowitch, who goes by “Princess Etch” in our newest issue of .

She creates one-of-a-kind art pieces on Etch-a-Sketches, which sell for as much as $7,500 each!

To find out how she got so good at it, and get blueprints w full instructions on how to DIY your own mechanical drawing machine, pick up Kazoo magazine #39, The Drawing Issue, shipping now.

🖍️ Etch a Sketch art by . Illustration of artist Jane Labowitch by for Kazoo.

11/21/2025

See Kazoo magazine’s DIY Drawing Machine in action! In our new issue, Kazoo no 39, we make a DIY Drawing Machine like the popular Etch a Sketch toy that demonstrates how the Etch a Sketch works, from the inside out.

In this video, you can see our drawing machine in action, and learn more about the history of the Etch a Sketch, too.

For full instructions on how to build your own DIY Drawing machine, subscribe to Kazoo: www.kazoomagazine.com/shop

  

11/19/2025

NEW FROM KAZOO❗️Get drawing advice from Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist ! ✍️

Every issue of features an illustrated maze activity that tells the story of an extraordinary woman’s life. After completing the maze, our young readers get exclusive advice from our hero.

We are THRILLED to have in our upcoming Drawing Issue. This issue ships to subscribers on 12/1/25. To get this issue delivered to your door, subscribe today.

(Ann Telnaes 🖍️ illustrated by for Kazoo no 39.)

11/18/2025

What Do You See? 👀 An artist’s greatest power comes not from how she draws the world but rather how she sees it. 👀

From our latest, The Drawing Issue: Can you find two hidden words among the jumbled lines on this Secret Code?

How-To: Raise the image to eye level, so you’re peering at it from the bottom up. Can you read the first hidden word? Now turn the image sideways and look again to find the second one.

***From no 39, The Drawing Issue, shipping now. Every issue of Kazoo contains a new Secret Code, wise words from an extraordinary woman that our young readers get to puzzle over, and hopefully, take to heart. We’re thrilled to have artist in this issue, for a feature interview, too. 🖍️

To get this issue delivered to your door, subscribe to Kazoo.

11/12/2025

🗞️🗞️🗞️ SOME GOOD NEWS from The Portland Tribune:

”This Brooklyn-based, award-winning magazine for girls ‘who aren’t afraid to make some noise’ is making noise of its own, pushing back on recent narratives about Portland in its upcoming issue.

Kazoo, a quarterly print magazine, publishes works intended for girls aged 5 to 12, providing them with tools to create, build, explore, dream, play, and ask questions. Many of its subscribers are located in the Rose City.

In each issue, readers can expect a ‘Search and Find’ feature that relates to the issue’s theme in some way. Come December, The Drawing Issue will showcase nods to Portland in celebration of its rich arts and artists while opposing recent claims that the city is war-ravaged. ‘I kept hearing the president on the news disparaging Portland, calling it “a burning hell hole” and claiming it’s “a disaster” and that there are “fires all over the place,” Erin Bried, founder and Editor-in-Chief, said in an email. ‘As we all know, none of that is true and it’s only a pretense for sending in the military.’ Given its young subscriber base, Bried said Kazoo chose to feature Portland in a show of solidarity. ‘It’s not only a fun activity for kids to do, but also a celebration of what makes Portland so special,’ Bried said.” 👏👏👏

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11/09/2025

11/06/2025

Introducing, Kazoo #39, The Drawing Issue.

By just putting pencil to paper, your kids will feel happier, calmer, smarter, and more connected to the people and world around them. 🌈

Perfect for girls who love to make art and have fun. Shipping in late November (just in time for the holidays!). Some highlights:

🔴 Draw Cute!
Learn to draw 25 super-cute things with advice and inspiration from artists Alison Bechdel, Wendy MacNaughton, and Diana Ejaita. With adorable tutorials by Jaclyne Ooi.

🔴 Create a Connection!
Read a short story about a girl who uses her love of drawing to find peace—and make friends, by National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold.

🔴 Make Something Great!
Learn how to dress up ramen with a comic recipe featuring our furriest chef yet: Lucy Knisley’s Condiment Raccoon.

🔴 Gain a New Perspective!
See the world through the eyes of dogs, butterflies, and other animals and wonder how vision influences art with integrative biologist Erica Westerman, Ph.D.

🔴 Solve a maze!
And get drawing advice from 2x Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes

🔴Practice cartooning!
Learn how to make faces with cartoonist (and cover artist) Ellen Forney

🔴 Take a tour!
Tour a pencil factory and see how they’re made with General Pencil President Katie Vanoncini

🔴 Tinker something cool!
Make a DIY drawing machine and learn to use it from Etch A Sketch artist Princess Etch

🔴 Read a comic!
Learn the story of the first professional woman cartoonist Rose O’Neill, by artist Wendy Xu

🔴 Plus! A secret code, a search-and-find, a word search, pencil practice, a free tear-out poster, and more!

This Will Sell Out. Subscribe Now to Get Yours.

11/05/2025

Kazoo News, making noise since 2016. 🎉

In our November newsletter, find out how I almost became internet famous, how to beat the algorithm that is stressing you out, and how to make the worlds best granola. Plus, sneak peek our next issue. 👀

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