Fashionably Late Takes

Please check out the new publication I launched on Substack called Fashionably Late Takes (I can’t draw fast enough for hot takes) where I’ll be sharing my visual essays. Here’s a little info:

My visual essays include hand-drawn images. These time consuming graphite drawings force me to pick topics that linger, with relevance that erodes slowly. You won’t find hot takes here — these are Fashionably Late Takes.

The logo for Fashionably Late Takes is a drawing of a mutant flower that I grew after a physicist helped me dose daisy seeds with radiation (I fashioned these flowers into sculptures). This connection to my mad scientist past hints at the kind of ideas that I’ll write and draw about here, like the tension between pursuing knowledge and curiosity killing the cat. But this theme is just a starting point, because I’ll tackle a wide range of topics.

The inaugural visual essay is “When Curiosity Kills the Cat,” and it’s my take on the lab leak theory of COVID-19 origins. Please give it a read, and consider a free subscription! I’ll put out a new visual essay every other Monday, and a subscription will send them straight into your inbox.

Nothing will be paywalled, so I’m trying to sustain this project long-term by offering archival, limited edition prints for Founding Member subscribers ($125). If you’re able to take out a paid subscription, you’ll get this print in the mail:

Please take a moment to check out Fashionably Late Takes and let me know what you think!