Blogifesto

Matt Gauck just released a new issue of his zine Next Stop Adventure and man is it good. Here we talk to Matt about bike touring Alaska, running a Kickstarter campaign, and more!

The Microcosm Bookstore at 636 SE 11th Ave in Portland has been the brick-and-mortar incarnation of our primarily digital catalog, giving customers and retailers the opportunity to thumb through zines and dive into piles of patches. In order to keep this retail presence while acknowledging the costs of maintaining the space, we're adopting the shop into a new incarnation!

It's the Rad Dad Occupy issue! In issue #21, Rad Dad editor Tomas Moniz and co. take on the recent global occupations from a radical parent's perspective. Are potentially volatile protests like Occupy Wall Street kid-friendly? Are the folks behind the Occupy events organized enough to keep your children safe should the balance of power tip?

Joshua Ploeg is the author of the vegan cookbook In Search of the Lost Taste and the raw food zine, So Raw It's Downright Filthy (as well as a buncha sweet zines.) He recently contributed a whole batch of recipes to Let Gluten Freedom Ring. Here's one of Joshua's recipes from said GF zine.

Adam G. from the 'Cosm Kansas Dept got an extra copy of the Paris Review's latest issue in his subscription. The next person who orders from us using the priority mail option and types "Paris Review" into the order notes will get Adam's copy FREE.

Zinemaker Karla Keffer recently veganized a recipe from East Village Inky/Zinester's Guide to NYC author Ayun Halliday. As big fans of vegan cooking and all-things-Ayun, we asked Karla if we could post it on our blog. The results are below.

This is pretty awesome. The author of the Body Conscious Birth Control zine gave us a batch of handmade patches to give away with her zine. Check out some photos!

Want your order gift wrapped? If you select the gift wrap option on your order, Kansas distro folks Adam, Jessie, and Danielle will hand gift wrap your stuff! Check out the video we made about it...

A first look at the newly re-designed interior pages of the Railroad Semantics #1 paperback book!

Stitching Together is a collection of Muppet-related comics—a series of shorties backing up the zine's showpiece: an epic look at the life, career, and death of Jim Henson. Just in time for the release of the new Muppet film, we interviewed Stitching Together's author/artist, Ed Choy Moorman!