What is “Jeff Lewonczyk,” and why should I read about it?

Hello! I am a lapsed playwright, a fair-weather cartoonist, and a lackadaisical schemer who’s hanging by a thread to a middle-class life in New York City. A tremendous amount of stuff enters my mind every day - countless words, images, ideas, sensations, and the occasional raccoon. So what comes out the other end? That’s what we’re here to find out.

This newsletter is being launched as a vessel for accountability - my hope is that I’ll write and draw more often if I start threatening people about it. It’s not going to be the same thing on any given week - sometimes I’ll share thoughts on books and movies that I love, other times I’ll tell a story about my life, still others I’ll just subject you to whatever spurts out of my creative blowhole.

So please join me as I sail on the flow of my thoughts over time. Maybe we’ll set off to destinations exciting and unknown. Or maybe we’ll encounter a whirlpool and get sucked to the bottom. But maybe then we’ll discover the lost kingdom of Atlantis, where they’ll share all their arcane secrets with us, starting with how to breath underwater. But then maybe they won’t shut up about their plans to corner the ocean-floor real estate market as sea levels rise - not to mention their tidy side hustle in underwater breathing schools - and we’ll get bored and come back to the surface. Only maybe then we’ll discover that hundreds of years have passed and humanity has run out of all the good snacks and all that’s left is unappetizing seaweed stuff that the Atlanteans had been carefully injecting into the market for decades. Will we realize then that snacks were always a way to fill the empty void that capitalism left in our hearts while ironically feeding capitalism itself? Or will we just be hungry?

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