This week, I unwisely wade into the latest kid-lit controversy, but really it's an excuse to share praise for some contemporary picture books that I especially enjoy. Plus I drew a picture of myself with a large head. See what the hell I'm talking about at jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/why-arent-...

Most important book ever written

This week, I write about the tremendous treasures I handled at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair; an encounter with legendary animator Bill Plympton; and how I stopped worrying about birdwatching and learned to love the sky. Give it a read at jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/remarkable...

To the three people following me here: What are you doing? The action is over at my newsletter, The Jeff Stream, which I'm reviving as a commonplace book of things seen, read, enjoyed, and pondered - sort of like a long-form Bluesky (clamored no one ever). jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/a-bunch-of...

Wanna read a long-form interview about my love of vintage children's picture books? You're in luck! Thank you to "normal about it" for asking me to expound on the power of color and line, the intermingling of craft and nostalgia, and how adults can benefit from revisiting their literary roots...

Here we are at the opening party for the @datavandals.bsky.social subway newsstand/gallery, where you can pick up a copy of slips slips! (It's also just awesome in general.) We're doing a second print run, so if you want one, visit the station, snoop around your local shops, or just let me know!

Always a good week when this arrives in the mail. Congratulations to @jeffisawesome.bsky.social @hopacita.bsky.social and everyone who contributed to the new issue of "slips slips." I am so looking forward to diving into this.

I have two new poems in Issue #2 of slips slips—this one features midlife dating and both members of my writing group, @nematode.bsky.social and @jgriffingraham.bsky.social 💜 “it's a play in a wooden O; a cypher; we are but the players, filling it an hour, short as spring, lush and too beautiful”

The new SLIPS SLIPS has arrived! I will be running some over to Beer Study and Golden Fig Books in Durham today—find yourself a copy of this awesome paper filled with comics and interviews and stories and POEMS!

Honored to have a piece in this and excited to get to share it with everyone. It’s physical only but well worth getting a hold of (very easy to do for NYC-ers and folks in the US. If anyone is out of country but wants to check out my piece, don’t hesitate to ask!)

Happy to tell the world that slips slips #2 has been printed and is ready to ship! In my sober and unbiased opinion, it looks tremendous. The theme is "Dialogues," and there's a lot to talk about: 16 pages, 85 contributors, endless diversion. Visit www.slipsslips.net to secure a copy of your own!

This weekend I had the pleasure of presenting a talk on "A History of Untrustworthy Graphics" as part of the kickoff for the new @schoolofvisualarts.bsky.social MPS Data Visualization & Communication program. Thanks to @jasonforrest.bsky.social for bringing me along! youtu.be/n7b0rY4_zbo?...

So yeah, looks like I'm gonna be a faculty member for this SVA Data Viz grad program next year - and more immediately, a presenter at this upcoming event, where I'll discuss "A History of Untrustworthy Graphics." Join in person or online - I'll be there either way!

I'm involved in this! Do what Kristen says! One of us!

I held off on sharing our latest slips slips contributor profile in deference to our nation's ongoing alpha meltdown - but reading Patrice Miller's words on Martha Graham, the Irish landscape, and the Brooklyn Museum will be the perfect corrective! slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

So I mainly post at Substack these days, but sure, let's see what happens when I try here too! Today I wrote (and shared lots of pictures from) a dreamy exhibit on small-press visual poetry publications at the Grolier Club: jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/the-acts-t...

Our first slips slips contributor profile just dropped, featuring the multitalented Eliza Stamps, an artist and writer voluntarily beholden to canine patronage. slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

An honor to have one of the world's greatest living cartoonists (which embarrasses him, but it's true) sketch some of the readers at last week's slips slips launch!

My first post before eventually succumbing in a lone corner, wedged forlornly between zero and one, atrophied by inattention. But first! We've launched an exciting new free print publication as a tonic against such digital angst. Learn all about slips slips! slipsslips.substack.com/p/a-paper-tr...