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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm teaching a @schoolofvisualarts.bsky.social continuing ed class on a modest subject: THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION. It's aimed at writers, poets, designers, illustrators, cartoonists, communicators—anyone who wants to use information creatively. Get details and register here! sva.edu/academics/co...

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's the final stretch! We've been posting the types of work we'd like to see for slips slips #3 ("Distractions") - but, if it's not clear, we're open to whatever you have in mind. The deadline is the end of the month: August 31. Visit slipsslips.net for full info. What will you distract us with???

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Design? Visual experiments of all sorts: typography, graphics, information, other. We publish short-form work with big ideas. The theme is Distractions: How do you guide the eye? What that means is up to you. Send your design-based proposals or images by August 31! More info at slipsslips.net.

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

As a poet, musician, and publisher, @skullhum.bsky.social is an all-around creative explorer. But as he demonstrates in his dialogue-poem “Parched,” there’s one frontier he won’t cross. Read the whole interview in our newsletter: slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

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Contributor Confab: Laurence Lillvik

"I feel like I’m going to spend a lot of time fighting robots from here on in."

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Last month, an adventurous group of Flatbush community members and friends of slips slips came together to do the impossible: create an 8-page printed publication from scratch in under 2 hours. Learn how we pulled it off, and get a closer look at the result: slipsslips.substack.com/p/we-made-a-...

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We Made a 90-Minute Newspaper!

Those crazy bastards went and did it

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What could be stranger than reality? Memoir, criticism, observation, reverie or something utterly other - slips slips is looking for all manner of non-fiction essay reflecting our issue 3 theme of distractions. Send short-form work (500 words or less) before 8/31. Full details at slipsslips.net!

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

How can you resist the title, “Witty Banter About My Brain Tumor?” Sarah Wallock's piece in slips slips #2 provides just that, giving a dialogue-based glimpse into her incredible story, which you can read more about in her slips slips newsletter profile: slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

slips slips offers graphic artists of all sorts a unique opportunity to experiment and play. We're excited to see your ideas for visualizing our issue 3 theme (Distractions) and discuss bold new approaches. Get full details on slipsslips.net and send up the signal for illustrators everywhere!

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Do you write stories? Short ones? With words? As in, 500 of them or less? Submit to our upcoming issue of slips slips. Theme is Distractions. Deadline is Aug 31. Send us something? Full details on slipsslips.net. And tell your fellow storytellers that we want to hear the stories they have to tell.

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As a longtime theater critic and librettist, it's no surprise @davidcote.bsky.social is attracted to the messy tangibility of slips slips—as with the stage, you can expect to get your hands dirty if you want to engage. Check out his profile in our newsletter: slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Sequential artists. Gag tableau specialists. People who draw wild stuff in a vaguely narrative format. In a word, CARTOONISTS! We want your short-form but indelible work on the theme of DISTRACTIONS. No style restrictions. Visit slipsslips.net or DM with questions, and please spread the word!

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This week’s profile flashback features NYC-based writer/photographer Lynne Burns, whose use of slips slips as an excuse to reach out to old friends demonstrates how printed paper still has the power to keep us all connected. slipsslips.substack.com/publish/post... (Photo credit: Herb Atkins)

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Reminder that next week we're collaborating with the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social to stage a one-of-a-kind event: We're gonna make a newspaper in an hour and a half. How will it go? Depends on how many of you show up. Learn more in our latest newsletter post: slipsslips.substack.com/p/lets-make-...

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Let's Make a 90-Minute Newspaper!

Another foolhardy but irresistible event for slips slips

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We're seeking submissions for our 3rd issue (theme: DISTRACTIONS) until August 31, and today we're focused on POETS. Any form, style, layout, so long as it's 500 words or less. Concrete, abstract, prose, impossible to describe - we want to see it all. Details at slipsslips.net. Spread the word!

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In this week's profile flashback, get to know @nycavri.bsky.social: an American raised in England, a published designer of board games, and a writer across mediums whose work has received acclaim from no less than crime writer Lawrence Block. slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

IT HAPPENED TO ME: I was nearly a "bicentennial baby." My new Jeff Stream post collects 50 fragments of what went on in my head over the past week as my 50th birthday coincided with the nation's 250th. Neither of us come off well. Read all about it at jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/bicentenni...

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Bicentennial Baby Bust

50 fragments to mark as many years

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Upcoming event: We're partnering with the Flatbush branch of @bklynlibrary.bsky.social on something reckless and exciting: Creating and printing a creative newspaper from scratch in 90 minutes! Brooklyn Public Library Flatbush Thu 7/23, 6-7:30pm RSVP: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/let...

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Get the full report on our recent Rush-Hour Literary Happening with @datavandals.bsky.social - two hours of creative commotion on a sweltering summertime subway platform: slipsslips.substack.com/p/sweaty-swa...

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Sweaty Swarming Subway Series

slips slips goes underground

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Whether you're in NYC or abroad, tune in tonight to see how this weird experiment turns out! A dozen readers, free copies for all! Meet us at @datavandals.bsky.social newsstand gallery on downtown 6 train platform at 51st & Lex, or check out the streaming link: www.youtube.com/@DataVandals...

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“MAKE WRITING HURT AGAIN,” proclaims the website of two-time slips slips contributor @kawaishen.bsky.social. She's similarly uncompromising when answering questions for our newsletter profile - if we want to make change, it's gonna hurt a bit. slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

@emenez2.bsky.social is the subject of the latest contributor profile in our newsletter, blips blips. We promise you will never in a million years guess what piece of advice she is referring to in the quote here. See her answers to all our impertinent questions at slipsslips.substack.com

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We're hosting a rush-hour takeover of the @datavandals.bsky.social Newsstand, an art gallery in the NYC subway system! Drop by to pick up a free copy and listen to some great amid with the bustle of Manhattan. Downtown 6 train platform at 51st St. Fri 6/26, 7-9pm partiful.com/e/Yu1jT93eIL...?

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don't go to galleries as often as I should, but why else am I paying to take this city's crap? When I do go, there's lots of great stuff. These three commanding images represent the three commanding women who created them, all of whom currently have work on display in Chelsea. I wrote about them!

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Three Sisters

A triple glimpse at some vigorous visions

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Our first (late) live event celebrating slips slips #2! Come join us in NYC (limited seating, hit us up for deets!) or live online for readings and presentations from more than a dozen of our NYC contributors around the theme of "Dialogues." Sun 6/7, 2pm. Streaming link: vimeo.com/event/597350...

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Our newsletter today provides some background and insight on why we chose "Distractions" as the theme of our upcoming third issue. Submissions are open through the summer, so read on to learn more about what we're looking for and how to send us your short-form written or visual work!

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Driven to Distraction

Submissions are officially open for slips slips #3

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I edit this rag, and we're looking for submissions for our third issue. The way the slides appear here on Bluesky is distracting, but I've decided that's more feature than bug.

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I finally did it—I wrote about AI. My conclusions won't surprise you, but maybe you'll enjoy how I got there, through a look at computers in old movies. Also thew some Luddite history, Romantic poetry, and systems art in there for the intellectuals. jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/movie-comp...

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Movie Computers and the Art of the Evitable

I guess I'm finally writing a post about AI

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thrilled to have a short comic about my pen-pal days published in @pencilmagazine.bsky.social #3: The Letter Writing Issue. I also put a call for new correspondents in @slipsslips.bsky.social #2, as it turns out I greatly miss writing letters. If it sounds interesting, why not drop me a line?

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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-...

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Why Aren't You Reading These Books???

I mean, if only for the gossip and controversy?

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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...

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Remarkable Things I Can't Afford

Beautiful antiquarian books, but also the sky itself (with a cartoon detour)

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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...

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A Bunch of Stuff You Didn't Exactly Ask for, But Here It Is Anyway

A new phase for The Jeff Stream?

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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...

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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!

The three editors of slips slips holding up copies of their broadsheet newspaper at the Data Vandals subway gallery in NYC. Photo by Mark Shaw.

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Michael Criscuolo @mcriscuolo1.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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”

Ara Poetica with Midlife Dating and Wyatt and a Murder Ballad

Has your longest love ever walked into the woods with someone else, slipped off the grid for hours, kissed her on a rock by the river?
It's Elizabethan as the king's favorite hound in her embroidered collar, as a hind and a hart at daybreak, as naked foot stalking your chamber floor; 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 in saturated greens in recounting my sadness taking place unchristianly during holy week, a friend responds:
I'd read your "midlife marriage novel," and I say I'd title it Murder Ballad—who is getting murdered? asks our third friend, anxious. My feelings, I say, which are Southern and dramatic. Ah, she says. I'd read the hell out of that.

-HAN VANDERHART

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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!

Han holding an unfolded copy of Issue #2 of SLIPS SLIPS, a newspaper-style creative publication

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Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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!)

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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!

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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?...

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Jeff Lewonczyk: "A History of Untrustworthy Graphics" (Whole lecture)

YouTube video by DV&C MPS Data Visualization & Communication

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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!

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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...

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Contributor Confab: Patrice Miller

"She might haunt me if I don't mention her"

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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...

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The Acts, the Shelf Life

65 years of inspired madness on paper

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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...

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Contributor Confab: Eliza Stamps

"My artwork is for my dog, and my dog alone."

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

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!

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Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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...

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A Paper Trail to Forever

Dispatches from the slips slips launch event and news about Issue #2!

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