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Joe Biel
Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm's popular DIY guide to zine-making, Joe…
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Revamping the concepts of Universal Design and Design for All for a more participatory, community-based design practice
Can design cater to a diverse society? How does it respond to the…
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So you’ve got a business where you make stuff-zines, books, crafts, art, widgets. Whatever it is, you’re super passionate about it, and you’ve been thinking about tabling at events! There’s…
During the Civil War, the enslaved Black crew of a Confederate ship was left to sleep on board overnight. Following a carefully laid plan, they picked up their families and…
The science of eugenics-by which the genetic makeup of a population is controlled by who does and doesn’t reproduce-is forever tied in popular memory with Nazi Germany. But the practice…
The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives, experiences, and words without stepping back to look at how taking…
The promise of punk Joe Biel believed in from a young age until his late 30s had wrecked his life, causing him to refuse to grow up or give himself…
If you’re the sort of person who takes on every project and responsibility until suddenly it’s one thing too many and you get completely burnt out and drop everything and…
From Chick-Fil-A to the Boston Tea Party, Nike to Women’s Suffrage in the U.S., United Farm Workers to the Woolworth’s Lunch Counter, boycotts have been an instrumental way to push…
The first time that I met my favorite autistic mentee, she walked right up to me, declaring You don’t look like prey! We discussed at length how we are both…
The life expectancy of autistic people is 36 years old. The most likely cause of this is suicide. Autistic people are being killed in massive numbers by the disability of…
Recommended for anyone who is or knows someone on the autism spectrum (or suspects they might!), this zine looks at the socializing disabilities of living on the spectrum. It doubles…
Hey Jealousy,Found Out About You … most of the hits from the Gin Blossoms’ 1992 breakout album, New Miserable Experience are credited to D. Hopkins, but the mysterious songwriter…
Kittie Knox, a teenage Black girl in the 1890s, began making headlines in her hometown of Boston. In this excellent, deep-research piece full of cultural analysis, you can see the…
Anarchism is often glossed over in the media as mere chaos; carry this slim volume in your pocket to remind you that it s a sophisticated political philosophy with a…
In this, the third issue of Joe Biel’s award-winning, ongoing look at the Critical Mass movement, we are given a well-researched analysis at the history of bicycle activism and police…
Punk is notorious for its loud music, aggressive attitude, and safety-pinned style. Less well known is the radical value system that has emerged hand in hand with the sound and…
Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. He is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing and co-founder of…
Publish your revolution.
The history of the first ten years of Microcosm Publishing, told in graphic detail! For the first time ever, read about how we got to where we are today through…
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…
Expozine Best English Zine Award Nominee 2008! A social history and tactics lesson about the Critical Mass bicycle movement. Initially meant to serve as a lesson for the unaware, this…
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At long last it’s the new issue of Microcosm’s continuing CIA zine series! For the tenth anniversary issue, we get an intimate, never-seen-before examination of the life and death of…
Plan out your publishing empire, from mission to budgets, with this workbook companion to Joe Biel’s A People’s Guide to Publishing. A great resource for visual thinkers, note-takers, and anyone…
This new issue details over fifteen years of Joe Biel’s improving and declining physical health as he battles doctors, naturopaths, and weirdos to try and figure out what exactly is…
Due to the large number of young vasectomy-less individuals inquiring about how to get their plumbing fixed, this zine has been reprinted and ready for re-consumption thanks to offset printing…
Minot may only be the fourth largest city in North Dakota, but it’s a key player in the punk ecosphere. Home to the longest continuous scene in the Dakotas, it…
Joe Biel,Eliot Daughtry
The third installment of this zine series about what it means to be neurodiverse, and what the neurodiverse experience is like for the real, whole people who live it everyday…
In 1999 our show in MInot, North Dakota was canceled but the locals said that we could still come hang out. I gave them another chance in 2006 on a…
Joe Biel,Abner Smith
These five case studies offer a chilling glimpse into the negligence, greed, murder, and at times comical disorganization behind some of the CIA’s most controversial secret operations. Science fiction could…
Joe Biel,Elly Blue
A timely and hilarious look at the behaviour of men through a series of illustrations, from manspreading to mansplaining to mantrums.
An epic, motivating, and powerful tale of growing up Black in Portland’s then-suburb of Albina in the 1960s. Told from original interviews and extensive sources - including police surveillance documents…
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Service dogs, wheelchair accessibility, protection against being fired due to a disability–these basic rights are all a result of the American Disabilities Act passed in 1990. Even though 1 in…
Throughout human history, dogs have performed service tasks for us. Some of the earliest documented cases occurred during the First World War. Do Not Pet: A Service Dog’s Graphic Tail…
Want to start a business and ready to make a plan? This workbook will walk you through the essential steps with no fluff.
Joe Biel, founder of Microcosm Publishing and…
Joe Biel,Faith G. Harper
A autism primer by an autistic person (co-written with a trusted therapist)!
What’s it like to be autistic? As many as one in forty-five people live that reality every day…
