HAND-CUT ✂ PHOTOCOPIED ✂ STAPLED ✂ MADE OF SCRAPS ✂ SINCE 2025
ISSUE №1 — “SCISSORHANDS”
48 pages of ransom notes, pool-blue afternoons and glue-stick fumes. Every spread cut by hand, photocopied until the toner begged for mercy.
“…the most joyful mess on paper.” — someone with a stapler
Fig. A — cover art, halftone duotone, 85 lpi
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Cut-out cities: a collage walk
Tape: a taxonomy (washi & beyond)
Photocopy distortion experiments
Letters page, minus one letter
Centerfold: the great paste-up
Glue reviews — stick vs. liquid vs. hope
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Editor: a left-handed pair of scissors Art dir.: one (1) glue stick, nearly new Fact-checker: the toner levels Printed: on the good machine, after hours