Microcosm Publishing

....okay, well, not really forever...but Just like supporting your local farmers, we now offer a "subscription" to everything that we publish! Every time we publish something new we'll send it to your door! Perfect for people who love to get a monthly package but don't have time to sift through what they want! $10-30/month based on what you can afford. Minimum subscription period is 6 months. Subscription begins the month after it is purchased. To receive more than 6 months, add multiple orders to your quantity.

Sick collects peoples' experiences with illness to help establish a collective voice of those impacted within radical/left/DIY communities. The zine is meant to be a resource for those who are living with illness as well as those who have not directly experienced it themselves. Contributors discuss personal experiences as well as topics such as receiving support, providing support, and being an informed patient. These writings are meant to increase understandings of illness and further discussion as well as action towards building communities of care.

Xerography Debt is back with issue #25 featuring more of the beloved "review zine with perzine tendencies" wherein your favorite zine writers become zine reviewers, columnists, and news hounds! 64 pages of new zines to fall in love with, collect obsessively, and tell your friends about. They want more zines to review for future issues! We know you are out there! Now you should send it to: Davida Gypsy Breier / PO Box 11064 / Baltimore, MD 21212 USA

Second edition out now! This 288 page tome collects the entirety of Avow zine issues #11 through 16 and selected entries from the first ten issues as well. Avow is a collection of artwork and stories with a few nods graphically to Aaron Cometbus and a lot of original ink drawings. He has done unique artwork for Glass & Ashes, The T4 Project, Submission Hold, Against Me!, New Bruises, Razorcake, and plenty more. His stories cut into the darker side of life growing up in a small coastal fishing town and the mischief that ensues. He is reminisces about the days when demo tapes were commonplace and CD-Rs were non-existent, puts a good spin on his tales of figuring out how to obtain his next meal, and learns a lot from society, the hardcore community, and college that he employs into the analysis in his writing. While relentlessly self deprecating, Keith is a great storyteller and does a good job of deeply probing his brain to share these stories.

We'll be tabling..

Release Events for SICK: A compilation zine about physical illness

Now featuring 33% more space, 2 new windows, and breathing room! We moved next door to 833 SE Main St. #108 (at 9th between Hawthorne and Belmont) mere blocks from Food Fight, Herbivore, The Recyclery, Diesel Fuel, Sweatpea, Printed Matter, Clever Cycles, Citybikes, and on the same block as Blacksheep Vegan Bakery. We also share a building with Bike Portland, Grey Day Records, Yeti Publishing, and many other like-minded individuals. In the store you'll find many of the same items you'll find in our catalog, but you'll also find hundreds of unique items--buttons, radical remaindered/damaged/used books for half price or less (!), older items, and other things that you may have only seen us selling while tabling! Take a gander at the $4 and less shelf! Everyday 12-8 PM

OUT NOW! Joshua Ploeg's (Warm Streams, Behead The Prophet, Mulkiteo Faeries) cooking blows my mind so much that a secret door opens in the back of my head and white doves, musical notes, and winged horses fly out. His cooking is transcendent: Dangerous, strange and perfect. It¹s full of colorful tastes that explode in your mouth like Pop Rocks ­flavor combinations you never thought possible. Crazy alchemy. Freaky magic.
Joshua's the Traveling Chef; you make an appointment, he shows up at your house with a load of groceries, makes an incredible multi-course vegan meal using your pots and pans, and then he's gone like the Lone Ranger riding into a big Texas sunset.
Joshua's been in a bunch of hardcore bands and he brings all the good things punk rock gave us: risk, passion, creativity, and weirdness; then he applies them to his meals. I randomly lucked into one of his dinners last year. I usually eat really fast and mindlessly, but I had to take this one slow and let all the flavors develop and do their respective stuff. Each had its own distinctive note ­ its own voice that rang out to let it be known that it was something special and unique. It was an experience in the finest sense of the word.

COMING AUG 15! Look at our Youtube for more preview clips! -

Our 2009 Catalog & Postcard! Zines, books, stickers, buttons, patches, t-shirts, posters, postcards, talkies, etc from the website featured on stapled pieces of paper! Stop spending all day on the internet! Get a paper copy! If you want to help, we would love to give you a stack to hand out around town or leave in record stores, coffee shops, bookstores, libraries, and the like. (We will include our undying love and gratitude with the catalogs we send you, of course!) Just include your address and how many you can pass out. Illustrations by Corinne Mucha!

OUT NOW! "Snakepit is the visual embodiment of DIY punk as it unfolds in its three panels, a day at a time. Much like life itself, on the surface-and to the casual observer-none of this may look like much. Ben sits around, eats buffets, gets high, plays in bands, and works at a video store. Each of Ben's days has an accompanying soundtrack song. Music's definitely important to Ben, but the true driving force is the people he meets; what beats in his friends' hearts, and not merely what's on their t-shirts. Pushing around all the edges, like pieces of paper cut out and carefully rubber cemented into place, are real snapshots of life-as-its-happening. And when the watershed days do come - Ben finds long-term love this year - they resonate even deeper." - Todd Taylor, Razorcake

New edition out now! Cindy writes her zine, DORIS, like she is figuring out the human condition. She makes writing about the simplest and most common things - playing music, childhood, cooking, or sex, resonate with universal understanding. She helps us make sense of more complex things like the satisfaction from doing useful work, natural curiosity, the ability to use logic, gender dynamics, introspection, the need for challenge and change, combating depression, and creating art and literature. She shares and explores the emotions that go along with having an abortion, rape, dealing with the death of family, or sexual harassment in a context that is enlightening and personal, feeling like a close friend opening up to you. What's most impressive though is that she relates these things into every article in her zine seamlessly.