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NONMACHINABLE
@nonmachinable.com
publishing + distributing optically interesting zines and artists' publications | collage, abstract comics, visual poetry, etc | shop.nonmachinable.com | run by @jpb.bsky.social and @allisonanne.com | mpls + bos + chi
🌈 Today is RELEASE DAY for COLOUR INTO FOCUS: QUEER AND TRANS COLLAGE #1! 🏳️‍⚧️ Contains works from 31 artists (on four continents!), published in a full-color half-size format. Copies available in-person at the Midwest Queer and Trans Zine Fest or online here: shop.nonmachinable.com/product/preo... 🔥
October 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
we have eight issues [!] of this project currently in the works, so if you want to give the project a boost, you can pre-order ALL EIGHT at a reduced cost! this helps us fund future issues

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September 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
hello everyone! we are NOW TAKING PRE-ORDERS for the first issue of COLOUR INTO FOCUS, our international anthology series of collage work from queer and trans artists // pre-orders are available in our shop on a sliding scale from $6-$22 // shop.nonmachinable.com/product/preo...
September 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Hi there! If you submitted work to the open call for Queer + Trans Collagists, please check your email for a project update!

We’ve had some trouble with emails going to spam - search your inbox if you don’t see it!

We’re very excited to publicly share more information about the project soon!
September 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The deadline for QUEER + TRANS COLLAGISTS is fast approaching!

As this is a global project, please submit by 11:59 pm in your local timezone. Form responses automatically come in with a timestamp, we will review anything that’s been submitted on or before 8/31!

Submit at bit.ly/QueerTransCollage
August 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
this summer we released SEX WORKS, a career-spanning compilation of the fearless, uncompromising work of Ester Kärkkäinen, the noise artist and former sex worker known as Himukalt // 250 pages of collages, photos, album art, and ephemera // link in replies
August 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
📣 Calling all LGBTQIA2S+ artists, visual poets and writers working with collage!

In collaboration with @twincitiescollage.bsky.social, we're seeking submissions for a new print publication centered around queer + trans collage.

Submissions due August 31st. bit.ly/QueerTransCollage
July 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Announcing an open call from @nonmachinable.com and @twincitiescollage.bsky.social: Queer + Trans Collagists

Any artist identifying as LGBTQIA2S+ working with collage are encouraged to submit their artwork, hybrid genre work and/or writing.

✂️ Submit by August 31st: bit.ly/QueerTransCollage
July 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
hey geometry lovers. in 2022, our own @jpb.bsky.social made a series of digital collages exploring and deconstructing the form of the triangle, and released them in the form of this vibrant minizine // full color, $4

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April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
IN THE SHOP: ACCEPT, a meditation on structures of inclusion and exclusion, from abstractionist Billy Mavreas // full color chapbook, $6 // shop.nonmachinable.com/product/acce...
April 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
IN THE SHOP: SMC_, visual poetry by C. D. Boyland // poet Susie Campbell describes this as "a fabulous, lost notebook full of arcane secrets and vital clues to other worlds" // perfect bound paperback, 34 pages shop.nonmachinable.com/product/smc_...
April 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Noble: "as someone who has experienced deep grief, loss, hopelessness & isolation for many years this is both a love letter & proof of life. This work is based on processing themes of disability, homelessness, complex persisting trauma, violence, poverty, neurodivergence, fear-love, & delight."
April 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
IN THE SHOP: Noble Liverpool's HELLO? A ZINE TO LET MY HEART SPEAK—a beautiful, full-color, 24-page zine featuring abstract meditations on "surviving our worst days"

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April 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
browse our catalog of zines, chapbooks, comics & artist publications at shop.nonmachinable.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
we have copies of this nice zine, BOGS, a collage-based tour through a series of spongy, dank, primordial worlds // $6 in the shop // more info here: shop.nonmachinable.com/product/exte...
November 16, 2024 at 9:21 PM
check out this set of four postcards featuring the work of mixed media artist Bad Jones Rising // 110lb-weight paper, satin finish, hand cut to 4x6" // $6, ships free to US! // link: shop.nonmachinable.com/product/post...
November 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
IN THE SHOP: URL ARTEFACTS by UK artist Nella Arakihs // 3D clay sculptures digitally shapeshifted into fascinating new forms // part jagged glitchscape, part melted confection // A5 sized, 16 pages, full colour on uncoated paper // $7 //
November 13, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Sydney-based artist and graphic designer Toni Hearn has joined Bluesky [@tonihearncollage.bsky.social]! // we have a few copies of her collage chapbook WALKING DISTANCE (2021) in our shop // 20 pages, full color, $8, check it out: shop.nonmachinable.com/product/walk...
November 12, 2024 at 6:24 PM
we released some nifty postcard sets from four different collage artists // limited to 50 sets each, these luxurious postcards feature artwork by the mononymous Brado, Kathleen Royster, Bad Jones Rising, and Morphic Rooms // available at shop.nonmachinable.com/category/pos...
November 10, 2024 at 6:45 PM
hello to new bluesky users!

we are NONMACHINABLE!

we distribute optically interesting independent publications from close to 100 different artists in the mediums of collage, visual poetry, abstract comics, stamp art & more ➡️ shop.nonmachinable.com
November 9, 2024 at 8:41 PM
NEW AND NOTEWORTHY: DESPAIR, by Florian-Seraphim Fauna // collages and paintings, concerned with the animal and the visceral, crackling with occult energy // $10 in the shop: shop.nonmachinable.com/product/desp...
October 4, 2024 at 3:04 PM
IN THE SHOP: decks of the ADDITIONS "collage cards," configurations of public domain imagery intended for creative reuse // here's a card, and a remix of it by deck co-designer @jpb.bsky.social
October 4, 2024 at 3:01 PM
our campaign for SEX WORKS, a book-length collection of the collages and photography of death industrial artist Himukalt, ends tomorrow at noon Eastern
September 29, 2024 at 4:12 PM
pledge level of the beast
September 28, 2024 at 2:56 PM
hey, we did it. thanks to all. two days left on the campaign
September 27, 2024 at 6:59 PM