Muriel Fahrion with Dexter Nelson, exhibits manager and curator of comic books at the OK Pop Museum.īecause Fahrion's not the copyright holder of Care Bears, she was eventually told she had to stop promoting and taking donations from the creation. It was like, really, someone is going to pay me to draw? I'm going." "You wanted to be an illustrator in a studio - that was the goal," she said. She said that back in the day, creating greeting cards was not looked highly upon in the art industry. "At the end, they took the top graduating students and they were offered a position at American Greetings, one of the biggest employers in Cleveland." "I got a scholarship and attended Cooper School of Art, which was a three-year course," she said. Later in her career, Fahrion was part of the original team behind Care Bears, creating the first six characters before returning to Strawberry Shortcake.įahrion told Insider she'd wanted to be an artist since she was four years old, following in the steps of her mother and sister. Strawberry Shortcake would go on to become a household name and appear on merchandise, toys, and television. Muriel Fahrion, owner of Outta Thin Air Studio, was working at greeting cards company American Greetings in Cleveland more than 40 years ago when she developed Strawberry Shortcake, after an art director requested she come up with a new character developed around a rag doll.
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