Can Magazine - Oh Yes I

For three weeks, kids laughed. Then, one by one, they stopped. Because Leo kept drawing. A dog that looked like a potato. A spaceship that resembled a hair dryer. And then, one day, a hand. Bony. Real. Almost alive.

That night, while rummaging for a protractor in the attic, he found the box. It was his late father’s, a man who’d died when Leo was four, leaving behind only the smell of turpentine and a set of forbidden oil paints. Inside the box, beneath brittle sketchbooks, lay a single magazine. oh yes i can magazine

That feeling curdled into a decision. He would not enter. He would become a scientist. Scientists used rulers. For three weeks, kids laughed

“Oh yes you can.”

In the summer of 1993, twelve-year-old Leo Márquez believed in exactly three things: the infallibility of the Guinness World Records book, the aerodynamic perfection of a paper airplane folded from a homework excuse slip, and the absolute, soul-crushing fact that he could not draw. A dog that looked like a potato

Leo was hooked. He spent the night reading by flashlight. The magazine didn't offer magic spells. It offered something weirder: instructions . A step-by-step guide to dismantling the certainty of failure.