[{"id":166485196879,"handle":"all","updated_at":"2023-12-10T11:10:30-08:00","published_at":"2020-04-17T08:42:00-07:00","sort_order":"created-desc","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"ALL","body_html":"","image":{"created_at":"2021-12-11T10:04:28-08:00","alt":null,"width":1500,"height":2270,"src":"\/\/h-street.com\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/Collections_Image_Shopify_Template_copy_aa948f58-60e9-4d99-ba58-b21a4a08542d.jpg?v=1639245868"}},{"id":435802250,"handle":"frontpage","updated_at":"2023-12-10T11:10:30-08:00","published_at":"2017-07-13T13:20:46-07:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"FEATURED","body_html":"","image":{"created_at":"2018-05-31T17:24:08-07:00","alt":"","width":1781,"height":1904,"src":"\/\/h-street.com\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/Collections_Image_Shopify_Template_copy.jpg?v=1682805710"}},{"id":57168658511,"handle":"new-releases","updated_at":"2023-12-09T05:55:25-08:00","published_at":"2018-04-25T14:53:30-07:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"NEW RELEASES","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":158868996175,"handle":"puppet-skateboards","updated_at":"2023-08-09T20:25:57-07:00","published_at":"2020-01-08T10:27:15-08:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"PUPPET SKATEBOARDS","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2182\/3189\/files\/Puppet_Gangster_Web_480x480.jpg?v=1578512835\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBob Hickman is skateboarder, artist, musician and true renaissance man from Ohio and with a couple of buddies and started started Puppet Skateboards, based on Bob’s art and no nonsense approach. Here’s how Bob recalls it;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Around 2017 I asked my two friends Jason and Kris if they wanted to start a skate company that would make no money and hardly anyone would know who we were but it would be fun. So I drew a sock puppet and had it put on a board and called it Puppet, because honestly, everyone has someone else pulling their stings. Sad but true. That year Matt Hensley let me do a guest deck that turned out horribly wrong and I almost shut it down because of the disappointment but I only really wanted to draw skate graphics and let people scratch them up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the popsicles came out in the 90's it was all about who had the sickest graphics and that was my favorite time in skateboarding and I always wanted to do that. Now 2 years later I've been blessed enough to do graphics for myself, H-Street, local skate shops and other people and it seems to be paying off. It’s never about money or recognition but just drawing something on a board that people were stoked on and enjoyed destroying.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBob’s doing a few guest graphics for H-Street and working with T-Mag on graphics that celebrates the H-Street artistic heritage and design and we are stoked to offer a few of his decks here at the H-Street shop. They are made using the finest Canadian hardrock maple and Puppet Skates represents the true Midwest mentality of quality DIY.\u003c\/p\u003e","image":{"created_at":"2020-01-08T10:30:25-08:00","alt":null,"width":1350,"height":2100,"src":"\/\/h-street.com\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/Puppet_Gangster.jpg?v=1578508226"}}]
Bob Hickman is a prolific and creative skate artist from Ohio. Here’s how he describes his background in skating, music and with H-Street;
“I started skating in 86' when I was 13, my favorite skater from day 1 was Ron Allen, first time I saw him was in "Sick Boys" I liked his style a ton, but that was all I saw of him until H-Street came to light. The first H-Street board I had was Ron’s, the one with the straight jacket. The tail was huge! It was a no comply machine.
There was a thin line with hip-hop and skateboarding, I DJ'd for a minute, but I could always rap and make beats so when the opportunity came and Ron asked me to make some beats for his album that just released I was hyped on that. I made him 3 tracks and he put them on his album. I've worked with a lot of big artists in the music industry but for some reason doing this for him meant the most. When it was done we talked on the phone about Hip-Hop for at least an hour, he's just a good and humble guy and I’d do anything for him. So when the opportunity came from Tony and H-Street to work on Ron’s 30 year graphic a few years ago, I jumped all over it.”
Since then, Bob’s made a number of tribute oriented graphics for H-Street, along with some original art. Lately, he’s been commissioned to do hand painted originals for different people and Mag suggested he do various series of decks we could offer to our friends.
This is a series of four decks that are hand painted on new blanks, with a few of our really classic graphics that inspired Bob, along with a personal inscription and Bob’s Puppet signature on the top.
They are only available this one time as original pieces of artwork.
