Jumpin’ Off the Page

“Man, reading through these camps, I would give anything to be a kid and do some of this cool stuff this summer,” commented The Santa Barbara Independent’s art director and the pen behind the drawings that grace this year’s Summer Camp Guide. Ben Ciccati mostly spent his New Jersey summers cruising around on his bike from morning until midnight, he tells us. As for the critters in this collection, “I love looking at them and drawing them all,” he said. “I hope kids like ’em, though.” Kids, get out the colored pencils!