Pasticcio Quartz, Issue 2, 2007, by Sarah Fishburn and Angela Cartwright, is a beautiful and fascinating collection of works of art from terrific artists of all sorts. The interesting thing is that it all comes together with a charm and ease which encourages the reader to want to read more, and learn more. Every page takes your hand and gives a gentle guiding lead toward the next page. Soon you realize you have finished the zine, and you long for more.
Why is Pasticcio Quartz, Issue 2, so good? Possibly the collection of artists who contributed, which is top quality, combined with its style. In addition to the artists, there are interviews, commentaries, quotations, educational bits and pieces, and more. It's not confusing, either. It's just a flat-out beautiful collection of things for the reader to see, marvel, and think about. It's a great way of urging a reader to want to do his or her own creating, after absorbing the contents of this superb zine.

As a small aside, the quality of the paper is phenomenally good, which is really important in a zine, in my opinion.

I just wanted to enter this zine as if it were a world: a magic world. That is how lush and lovely it is. It's a thing of wonder when a reader wants to curl up to a collection of pictures and thoughts as fine as this and just stay...a little while longer.