CAN YOU BELIEVE it? The first issue of Cricket appeared in September 1973, fifty years ago this month. It’s enough to make an Old Cricket feel—old!
Cricket, Ladybug, and the rest of’s first art director. Trina believed that “to reach kids, you have to be a little goofy . . . There’s got to be something to laugh at.” She even let loose a jar of crickets at the first Editorial Board meeting to make her point!
