Microcosm Publishing imprint: 34 books
Good Trouble
Building a Successful Life and Business with Asperger's
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The history of Microcosm Publishing, from its origins as a record label and zine distro in Joe Biel's bedroom closet in Cleveland to a thriving, sustainable publisher of life-changing books. The book comes out to mark Microcosm's 20th anniversary and all the shit and splendor that's gone into making...
Threadbare
Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Threadbare draws the connections between the international sex and garment trades and human trafficking in a beautifully illustrated comics series. Anne Elizabeth Moore, in reports illustrated by top-notch comics creators, pulls at the threads of gender, labor, and cultural production to paint a concerning...
DIY Screenprinting
How to Turn Your Home Into a T-Shirt Factory
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
A fascinating graphic novel that details the art and science of screen-printing from inception to printed t-shirts to working in a print shop to understanding line screens, to hawking your printed wares on the street! How to build a screen, burn an image, test how things are going, pull ink, wash...
Teenage Rebels
Stories of Successful High School Activists, From the Little Rock 9 to the Class of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Teenage Rebels provides a glimpse into the laws, policies, and political struggles that have shaped the lives of American high school students over the last one hundred years. Through dozens of case studies, Dawson Barrett recounts the strikes, marches, and picket lines of teens all over the US as they...
Indestructible
Growing up Queer, Cuban, and Punk in Miami
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In her Miami high school, Cristy Road valiantly tried to figure out and defend her queer gender identity, Cuban cultural roots, punk-rock nature, and mortality. Through her writing and illustrations, Cristy reminds us of the strength and ability of punk youth to address realities like rape, homophobia,...
Constant Rider Omnibus
Stories From the Public Transportation Front
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Constant Rider's Kate Lopresti describes her zine as, "Comedy, adventure, melodrama, the occasional horror," saying, "I never have writer's block when writing about the bus." Here, collected in book form, are Constant Rider issues 1-7, Kate's personal history as a patron of public...
Cycletherapy
Grief and Healing on Two Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Can you pedal your way through everything life throws at you?Taking on the bicycle as a means of making sense of life and death, contributors write about their experiences on a bicycle, enjoying the little things about everyday life, dealing with the most difficult, and overcoming loss, trauma, and...
Unfuck Your Brain
Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Our brains are doing our best to help us out, but they can be real assholes sometimes. Sometimes it seems like your own brain is out to get you—melting down in the middle of the grocery store, picking fights with your date, getting you addicted to something, or shutting down completely at the worst...
Brew It Yourself
Professional Craft Blueprints for Home Brewing
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Brew it yourself is a DIY home-brewing guide, which outlines the key methodologies of the two most common home brewing techniques: extract and all-grain brewing. Erik Spellmeyer provides professional advice on how to get started from square one at home, introducing the reader to the industry jargon...
by Joshua Ploeg
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Traveling chef Joshua Ploeg (Plague) of Behead the Prophet, No Lord Shall Live/Mukilteo Fairies/Ravenna's Secret Cafe presents 80 new and delicious, gourmet vegan recipes. Joshua is the epitome of the post-punk ethic manifest into his passion; traveling the country on buses and trains he presents...
Everyday Cheesemaking
How to Succeed Making Dairy and Nut Cheese at Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Everyday Cheesemaking is an introduction to DIY home cheese making made simple and accessible. K. Ruby Blume introduces you to the concepts, equipment, and ingredients necessary to making cheese at home successfully the very first time you try. The book offers clear instructions, humorous stories,...
Alive with Vigor
Surviving Your Adventurous Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Alive With Vigor! compiles stories of surviving—and thriving—from a wide spectrum of contributors. Deeply personal essays recount matters of preventative health care, the hard decisions we each have to make, Do It Yourself health care, and how to deal with extracting health care from government/corporate...
Bipedal, By Pedal
A History of Bicycle Activism in Portland, OR
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
It's the second issue of the Expozine Award Winning Bipedal, By Pedal. Last time around we got a social history and tactics lesson about the Critical Mass bicycle activist movement. For this issue, editor Joe Biel collected legal documents pertaining to the Portland Police Department's "interest" in...
Aftermath of Forever
How I Loved, Lost, and Found Myself. The Mix Tape Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
The Aftermath of Forever: How I Loved and Lost and Found Myself is a memoir that chronicles the romantic coming-of-age of a woman in her 20s experiencing dating in the San Francisco Bay Area. After the disappointment of a failed marriage, Natalye Childress embarks on a soul-searching journey to discover...