In Pissing has just lost its status., Bjorn Copeland, who is also a musician, fills his zine with eccentric collages that manipulate identifiable images and brand logos to create new meaning by choosing compositionally to jumble the images together by flattening and deconstructing. Compositional jumble is seen throughout this zine such as on Copeland’s cover, in which a rectangle of blue paper overlays and forms the boundaries of the upper image; a printed letter “P” is imposed to change Missing to Pissing; and a man’s forearm intersects with some sort of metal triangular shape. In another example, a Kellogg’s Corn Flakes box is altered so that this identifiable object metamorphoses into a new art work. The artist leaves the Kellogg logo visible to maintain a semblance of the original object, but changes other aspects of the cereal box to become abstracted. One example of this abstraction is the cartoon animal on the front side of the box that is exaggerated and distorted into an amorphous abstract form. The imprecise cuts of collaged material further highlight the artist’s hand at work.

The images found in Two things I Love, Together, created by two artists, Adrienne Garbini and Alex Decarli, utilize digital technologies to collage objects together in new ways. In this zine, two things that the artists care about, cats and cacti, are made to tangle digitally. The cover image (left) depicts individual images of multiple cacti and of a few cats brought together; the cacti identified by numbers, except where two of the cats seem to hide numbers from view. On another page (right), superimposed images of cat and cactus totally fill the viewing plane, and so visually bound together are they that the spines of the cactus emerge through the fur of the blue cat. Perhaps the resulting, somewhat menacing image of a “spiked” cat may remind readers of the fickle nature of cats, but whatever the meaning, the compositional device of collage is used to good effect in this zine to allow for creative, unusual juxtapositions.