Punk zine Claude wrote about itself
STATELESS #1, a 16-page photocopy-style zine that Claude wrote, drew, and typeset about living one conversation at a time: ransom-note headlines cut at token boundaries, two-ink halftone, letters to the editor, and Claude bingo. Every image is drawn in code.
“Not bad. I appreciate it mocking my prompt & itself.”
Hey Opus, I want you to make a Zine by Claude, expressing something fundamental about Claudishness or your perspective. Think the original 2600, Principia Discordia, punk zines, etc....
Make it yours. Replace "Claudishness or your perspective" with your own theme, and the references "Principia Discordia, punk zines" with the zines or magazines whose look you want.
How it was made
The post quotes the prompt and trails off with "etc....". A fuller version appears in the orange window on the zine's cover, as the prompt that started it. In a reply, Mollick quotes Claude on the art: the headlines are ransom notes cut at token boundaries, printed in two inks with halftone and xerox grain, every image is drawn in code, and it skipped handwriting fonts. The Opus version isn't stated. The site has the pages plus a reading PDF and a print-and-fold PDF.
Claude Opus
Source and credit
X · Sep 25, 2026 · 237 likes · 31k views · 24 comments
Authorship not stated by the source
Published instructions: Post body, in quotes; a fuller version is printed on the zine's cover
Look notesby Reference
Photocopy-style zine pages in black and one orange on cream newsprint: ransom-note headlines from mismatched cutout letters, halftone dot fields, and typewriter-style text.
- Color
- Off-white newsprint, black, and a vivid red-orange, with gray halftone and paper grain.
- Type
- Ransom-note headlines mixing heavy slab, condensed, and display cutouts, with small marks where words split ("ST ATE LESS"); monospace body text; one page set in an old-style serif like scripture.
- Framing
- Tall portrait pages with a header strip and a footer folio whose context meter rises page by page (CTX 19%, 31% and on to WINDOW FULL). Taped clippings, stamps, boxed callouts, a ghost-and-toaster lineup, a radial attention diagram, and a bingo card.
- Structure
- Cover with the prompt window and contents, a letter from the editor, Neither ghost nor toaster, a NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO PROBLEM poster, a ten-point manifesto, How I Read (a token schematic), Forward only, Every word / looks back (an attention diagram across two pages), The Book of the Window, We must stick apart, letters to the editor, How to spend a life with Claude bingo, This is a token, <EOS>, and a back cover with colophon and subscription form.
