Well, well, well, what have we here? Has another issue of beloved humor magazine Defenestration crawled ashore to lay its eggs? I think it has!

I think Eileen would agree with me that editing this magazine has, on the whole, been an immensely positive experience. We get to read a lot of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry–most of it never before published, and some never before seen by another magazine or editor. That’s a cool experience. A humbling one, certainly. And it’s one of the things I love about editing Defenestration.

But the world can’t be sausages and rainbows all the time.

Based on a conversation I overhead at work. I have a weird tendency to hear conversations and fill in my own punchlines. It’s totally normal.

I bet many of you wish your real lives were like this. You wish for a living nightmare.

I’ve decided to go in an all new direction with Ben & Winslow, and to help me achieve the level of greatness I envision for this comic, I’ve enlisted the help of my 6-year-old daughter to write and draw whatever it is she thinks is funny.

Some people wake up with headaches, or colds, or upset stomachs. Winslow wakes up with coconut palms and castaways and a mouthful of tiny fish.