ABOUT US

Co-editor Alex Hart is a self-taught multicreative, learning (and un-learning) as she goes. If it's something that uses her hands — writing, cutting & pasting, arranging flowers, sandwich-making, hair-cutting, yo-yo'ing, high-fiving — she's there and up to her elbows in concentrated work. Or is it play? Motto: Where possible, unplug that dubious brain. Also: Trust, and go on hoping (Edward Lear). Some personal gurus: Vivienne Westwood, Beatrix Potter, Alexander Calder, Yayoi Kusama, Alice Neel, Maurice Sendak, Louise Bourgeois, Amy Sedaris, Joseph Cornell, Ray Johnson, Pee Wee Herman oops Paul Reubens, Reggie Watts............!!!

Co-editor Jon Lackman is a journalist and author of the (mostly) nonfiction graphic novel The Woman With Fifty Faces, about the unjustly forgotten artist’s model / con artist Maria Lani. He’s covered politics, science, and the arts for Harper's, The New Yorker, Slate, and Wired. He completed a PhD in art history from NYU and a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. He's represented by Mary Krienke of Sterling Lord Literistic. Currently at work on two books, one on why we shouldn’t force kids to go to school and another on the underappreciated potential for sport to transform the lives of adults.