Finite and Flammable: A Zine about Zines

by Jessanne Collins and Joe Pompeo

From the editor: "Some are packed away in suburban garages, safely out of sight, especially the sight of anyone we’ve ...

Everything Good & Beautiful

by Frey Anya and Bucket Siler

"A nicely zine-flavored comic about fighting self-doubt and isolation. The story about making a tremendous ...

Fire & Ice zine

by Joshua Ploeg

REDESIGNED! NEW MINI FUN SIZE! Traveling chef Joshua Ploeg (Plague) of Behead the Prophet, No Lord Shall Live/Mukilteo ...

Every Thug Is A Lady: Adventures Without Gender

by Julia Eff

We are in love with this one. Julia Eff's 68 page Every Thug is a Lady begins with a co-opting of a Jay-Z quote: "I've ...

The East Village Inky #49

by Ayun Halliday

The fabulous East Village Inky is Ayun Halliday's mega-awesome per-zine about living life in New York City and ...

Fireweed: A Zine of Grassroots Radical Herbalism and Wild Foods Connecting with Kids and Family Life, #2

by Jess Krueger

We are so incredibly stoked to have issue two of the Fireweed zine in stock! Like its subtitle says, Fireweed is about ...

Fruit Design Laser Cut Plastic Stencils

by Sue Brooks

Enhance walls, freeway underpasses, furniture, fabric, and public places with these attractive fruit design stencils. ...

FAQNP #.03

by Ray Cha

FAQNP calls itself "A Queer Nerd Publication" and maaaan is it nerdy! (In the best possible way of course!) Issue three ...

Fluke #9

by Matthew Thompson

Massive, megaton-ic, mastodon-ic congrats to the Fluke zine folks! Twenty years in the biz, yeah hell and pass the ...

The East Village Inky #48

by Ayun Halliday

It's the first-ever East Village Inky music issue! In these 40 pages we get essays about influences and awakenings, an ...

Funwater Awesome #4

This one is somethin' special! On a surface level, Zach is telling us about his life in Tumwater, WA (near Olympia) but ...

Fun Pack!: Comics

by Various

Would you like an envelope bursting full of assorted zines, patches, stickers, buttons, even posters or postcards? ...

Fun Pack!: Political zines

by Various

Would you like an envelope bursting full of assorted zines, patches, stickers, buttons, even posters or postcards? ...

Fun Pack!: Personal zines

by Various

Would you like an envelope bursting full of assorted zines, patches, stickers, buttons, even posters or postcards? ...

Feedback #10

by John Isaacson

It's another epic issue of John "The dude who did DIY Screenprinting" Isaacson's Feedback! For those of you who haven't ...

Everything Dies #7

by Box Brown

One of the best and most promising new comic artists out there today, Box Brown writes and draws the Everything ...

The East Village Inky #47

by Ayun Halliday

Ayun writes a delightful quarterly zine mostly about being a New York City mother and the adventures she has with ...

Everything Dies #6

by Brian Brown

This classy comic returns with the story "Debate Between Bird and Fish," based on the ancient Sumerian myth. Box Brown ...

Feedback #9

by John Isaacson

The Eye Doctor is at it again! This issue of the ever-beloved, now occasionally digital Feedback also features zine and ...

FAQNP #.02

by Ray Cha and Various

Those of us born in the 1970s will remember a time when the internet was a place for nerds—a haven away from being ...

Great Anarchists

by Peter Willis

Like a miniature version of Firebrands, this slender zine utilizes an illustration and a quote from 20 ...

East Village Inky #46

by Ayun Halliday

Issue 46 of the East Village Inky is Ayun's gnome issue! “Wait, whaaat,” you (might) say? Yes indeed, ish 46 ...

Go For Broke #2: Klimbing Kilimanjaro

by Lani H.

Go For Broke #2 might be the world's very first zine about climbing to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro—and what a ...

Everything Dies #5

by Ben Brown

This latest (and largest) issue of Everything Dies continues the Heart of Stonework story from issue four.  In ...

Geneva 13 #13

by Kevin Dunn

Geneva13, sub-headed “a zine of the local,” is just that: a zine focusing its anthropological “beat” on a ...

The Fury #18

by Mark Novotny

The long-running photo/personal/review/interview zine based out of Illinois—The Fury—is out with 68 full-sized ...

East Village Inky #45

by Ayun Halliday

Despite putting together a massive Zinester's Guide to New York City, Ayun still finds time to put out another ...

Gutterslug #2

by Emily Gutterslug

In the second issue of Gutterslug, Emily writes about her many adventures in Australia.  She writes about her ...

Feedback #8

by John Isaacson

Another issue of John's comic about music shows.  John reviews way too many bands to list them all, but as a ...

Everything Dies #4

by Brian Brown

Unlike previous issues, #4 is dedicated entirely to one story, Argument- the tale of a young man who is the sole ...

East Village Inky #44

by Ayun Halliday

Ayun Halliday's East Village Inky puts even the most prolific of long-spanning zines to shame. Now on its 44th issue, ...

Educating for Freedom

by Cindy Milstein

In Educating for Freedom, Cindy Milstein looks at how we can redefine education (or, rather, the process of educating) ...

Everything Dies #3

by Brian Brown

Box Brown's continued exploration of different religions in comic format. In #3 we learn about paradise according to ...

Feedback #7 / Video Tonfa

by John Isaacson

This zine combines comic strip show reviews with comic strip movie reviews to create the ultimate in comic strip review ...

Greenwoman #6

by Sandra Knauf

Sandra is a "greenwoman" who loves to garden. She confesses her thumb could be greener, but she's obviously passionate ...

Geneva 13 #11

by Kevin Dunn

Geneva 13 is the "zine of the local" with a global scope. The editors live and write about what happens within 13 miles ...

Eaves of Ass: Promise and Theft

by Craven Rock

Craven Rock's regular gig driving cabs in Louisville during Derby time is a washout, due to a fizzling hurricane, and ...

Fluke #8

by Matthew Thompson

Fluke #8 is packed with fantastic interviews, plus a bunch of new illustrations by the talented Nate Powell. First up, ...

Everything Dies #2

by Brian Brown

Everything Dies #2 is a unique comic focusing on religious studies. In this issue, Box Brown continues his spiritual ...

East Village Inky #43

by Ayun Halliday

East Village Inky #43 is the same stream of consciousness parenting zine we know and love. Ayun and her tiny crew shoot ...

Funwater Awesome #3

by Zach Mandeville

Zach the lovable barber from Tumwater Washington, wrote two issues back to back, #3 and #4. In this one, he attempts to ...

Funwater Awesome #2

by Zach Mandeville

We've wanted this zine at Microcosm for the longest time because it is so good! It's Zach's story of becoming a barber ...

A Guide to Picking Locks #2

by Nick Adams

Presenting part two of the CrimethInc Guide to Picking Locks series! This time around all the goods are packaged in a ...

Going Postal #2

by Kristoffer Mininger

From Spain comes Going Postal, devoted to mail art, and mail art history! This issue has two different covers by two ...

Genderfailz #1: The First Appointment

by Alix Kemp

Alix is a transguy struggling against a limited and restrictive healthcare system. Genderfailz #1 is written about his ...

Genderfailz #2: Call Outs and Clever Titles

by Alix Kemp

Alix is a self-described "polycurious transguy...who refuses to pick a sexual orientation." Genderfailz is his zine ...

A Guide to Picking Locks #1

by Nick Adams

"How frustrating would it be if you could magically learn everything a master locksmith knew about picking locks, but ...

Geneva 13 #10

by Kevin Dunn

Geneva 13 is the zine of the local. It chronicles things that are happening within 13 miles of Geneva, New York in a ...

Earth First Means Social War: Becoming an Anti-Capitalist Ecological Social Force

by Liam Sionnach

Liam Sionnach wants to propose an Other Earth First!  Not just a loose, dwindling organization trying to define ...

Freedom and Oppression: Homelessness and the Grand Valley

by Jacob Richards

Studies of homeless populations are notoriously hard to conduct. Their decentralized and often nomadic nature make them ...

Friends Make the Best Medicine

by The Icarus Project

In this Guide to Creating Community Mental Health Support Networks, the Icarus Project gives a how to on creating safe ...

Greenblooded: An Introduction to Eco-Friendly Feminine Hygiene

by Cathy Leamy

Plenty of "how to make your life more green" resources out there, but what's a topic that they tend to avoid? Greener ...

Excitement and Adventure

by Lacey Prpic Hedtke

Lacey is fascinated by gangsters. She spent tireless days researching and reading about them to make this zine which ...

Geraniums and Bacon #5

by Cathy Leamy

Cathy Leamy's personal comic about the trials of bra shopping, blogging about a bridal sale, and bubble tea. I like ...

Give Me a Dollar

by robnoxious

Robert's true life stories of boat punks on flooded and frozen rivers, and about trying to make a living. Robert often ...

Feedback #5

by John Isaacson

John Issacson's show reviews in comic form. In this issue: Ottoman, a Barack-themed art show, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, ...

Geneva 13 #9

by Kevin Dunn

Geneva 13 is a local zine with an often global appeal. It's concept is a simple one: to write about issues happening ...

The Frugal Vegan's Spring and Summer #2 Survival Guide

by Lisa Van den Boomen

Lisa's zines always focus on saving cash while staying socially conscious, and this is no exception. In this issue are ...

Exposing "Little Guantanamo": Inside the CMU

by Daniel McGowan

Daniel McGowan is an environmental rights activist currently serving a 7 year prison sentence for his involvement in a ...

Found Magazine #7

by Davy Rothbart

Found #7 is a treasure trove of finds, including post-it notes, notes passed in class, and unflattering portraits of ...

The Empire Builder

by AM

This zine is a beautiful ode to a ride on the Empire Builder, the train that runs between Chicago and Portland, Oregon. ...

Greenwoman #5

by Sandra Knauf

Sandra loves to garden, and it's really become the focus of Greenwoman now. She's gotten a part-time job tending to ...

Girls are not Chicks coloring zine

by Jacinta Bunnell

A coloring book combating gender stereotypes! There are enough books that make girls think that they are not any ...

Fences

by SL

SL wrote Fences all about her neighborhood; About growing up there, and how gentrification has changed the kind of ...

Found Magazine #6

by Davy Rothbart

Found Magazine is editor Davy Rothbart's ode to objects lost and found. It's scrawled notes, and yellowed photographs, ...

East Village Inky #42

by Ayun Halliday

East Village Inky is Ayun's frantic zine about the equally frantic task of wrangling children Milo and Inky, along with ...

Fire & Lightning Book

by Christopher Hatteras

The second volume of the In Search of the World serial was composed by volume one contributor, Christopher ...

Fart Party book: Volume Two

by Julia Wertz

The second collection of Julia Wertz's Fart Party comic strip is just as depressing as you want it to be, but also as ...

Fireweed: A Zine of Grassroots Radical Herbalism and Wild Foods Connecting With Kids and Family Life

by Jess Krueger

Fireweed, as the full title implies, is all about introducing your kids to plants. It's about teaching young children ...

Griot #6/Pudd'nhead #5

by Brian Deller

A split zine between two awesome writers. Brian does Griot, and Mike does Puddn'head, and together they've made a very ...

Gutterslug #1

by Emily Gutterslug

Gutterslug is a perzine about Emily's time living as a teenage punk, in both youth and adult shelters in Australia. Her ...

Eight Letters #2

by Johnny NoPants

Johnny's personal zine about knuckle tattoos. Well that's selling it short, because it's more of a story-telling zine, ...

Estrus Comics #3

by MariNaomi

A small comic on the subject of 'large topics', such as death, happiness, creation, and things of that nature. All ...

Greenwoman #4

by Sandra Knauf

Greenwoman is a mother's look at her life of family and gardening. A majority of the issue is a long well-written piece ...

Etiquette

by Lacey Prpic Hedtke

Etiquette is a how-to zine written by the common woman for the common people! Learn how to conduct yourself in the ...

Galatea's Pants #22

by Lauren Eggert-Crowe

Lauren apologizes in her introduction for what she claims is GP's identity crisis. But there's little to apologize ...

East Village Inky #40

by Ayun Halliday

Ayun Halliday takes us through another adventurous and entertaining month of the non-conventional NYC family. She ...

Feedback #2

by John Isaacson

John Issacson, of DIY Screenprinting fame, and also the comic zine Pyromania, has been putting out show reviews as ...

Feedback #3

by John Isaacson

John Issacson, of DIY Screenprinting fame, and also the comic zine Pyromania, has been putting out show reviews as ...

Feedback #4

by John Isaacson

John Issacson, of DIY Screenprinting fame, and also the comic zine Pyromania, has been putting out show reviews as ...

End of a Perfect Day #11: The Trans-Canadian Nightmare

by The Captain

The Captain presents us with another adventure story, this time about hitching and hopping through Canada. But ...

East Village Inky #39

by Ayun Halliday

The 10th anniversary issue of Inky! Ayun does a bit of a retrospective on the last 10 years. We learn that over ...

Greenwoman #3

by Sandra Knauf

Greenwoman #3 is the "bee" issue! Sandra is a true bee-lover, and fills this issue with tales of bee-encounters. ...

Endless Escalators #2

by Monica Anderson

This zine is scathingly funny. Monica has taken all of the yearbook pictures people gave her at graduation and ...

Falling Can Be Deadly: Ten Foot Rule Journal-Type Comix Jan 2008

by Shawn Granton

Shawn Granton is a Portlander dedicated to bike touring and writing about it in daily journal comic form. He also ...

Greenwoman #2

by Sandra Knauf

Sandra is a gardening, Colorado mother of two who's new to zines and excited to write and share her stories! She ...

Going Postal!

by Kris Spain

A meta-zine from Spain all about mail art and zinedom! Some of the goals of the publication include exploring ...

Email is Not Easier: Setting Up Email Lists For Activism

by Katja

Katja turned her thesis about email lists into a series of zines. She conducted a study of people who use email ...

The East Village Inky #38

by Ayun Halliday

Presenting East Village Inky #38, in which the family attends an art exhibit with gratuitous nudity, Greg attempts ...

Fort Mortgage: Punx Buying a House! #1

by Dave Taco

A zine written by husband and wife team Taco Dave and Kisha! It's their combined stories of buying a house in ...

Giving Up the Ghost

by Willam P. Tandy

A zine of eerie ghost stories! Lots of skeptics telling their stories of conversion into believers in the ...

Grundig #3

by Michael Ismario

Michael's classic zine tells great stories about travel, hopping trains, trips to Mexico, meeting friends in ...

The F-Word #3: A Feminist Handbook for Revolution

by Melody Berger

The F-Word #3 is the Outlaws Issue. It features interviews with Howard Zinn, Loretta Ross, Kate Bornstein, and ...

Estrus Comics #5: Kiss and Tell

by MariNaomi

MariNaomi's comics are all about the boys she's dated, made out with, crushed on, and generally obsessed over, ...

Estrus Comics #6: More Kiss and Tell Stories

by MariNaomi

More of MariNaomi's comics about the boys she's dated! In this issue: an artist who wants to take a jello bath, ...

Greenwoman #1

by Sandra Knauf

Sandra is a gardening, Colorado mother of two who's new to zines and excited to write and share her stories. She ...

Fishpiss Vol 2, #4

by Louis Rastelli

Named after an ingredient in ink, Fish Piss is a magazine with an open door submission policy for writers and ...

Fishpiss Vol 2, #2

by Louis Rastelli

Named after an ingredient in ink, Fish Piss is a magazine with an open door submission policy for writers and ...

Everything Goes To The Bottom

by robnoxious

A spastic collaboration of stories, random thoughts, and anecdotes. Included is an epic four month ride on a ...

Fart Party book

by Julia Wertz

Julia Wertz's zine Fart Party is now a book! Every review of this zine says basically the same thing. That the ...

The Frugal Vegan's Spring and Summer Survival Guide

by Lisa Van den Boomen

A another gigantic cookbook for people without a lot to spend. Recipes for food, non-food, and even gift ideas! ...

The Frugal Vegan's Holiday Harvest Survival Guide 2

by Lisa Van den Boomen

The sequel to the original Holiday Harvest Survival Guide! Features drinks, entrees, soups, desserts, and a jumbo ...

The East Village Inky #37

by Ayun Halliday

Ayun writes a delightful quarterly zine mostly about being a New York City mother and the adventures she has with ...

Galatea's Pants #21

by Lauren Eggert-Crowe

Galatea's Pants #21 is about race and stereotyping. It covers immigration from Mexico into the US, and the myths ...

Ghost Pine #11: Crows

by Jeff Ghostpine

My guess is that Jeff may have been hungry while compiling this issue. Many of the stories reference food in some ...

East Village Inky #36

by Ayun Holliday

Ayun writes a delightful quarterly zine mostly about being a New York City mother and the adventures she has with ...

Found Magazine #5

by Davy Rothbart

Found five is more of the best of that which is lost and then found. There are lost love-letters, angry notes, and ...

The End of a Perfect Day #10: Los Angeles of the Mind

by The Captain

The latest issue of the End of a Perfect Day finds Damian biking and hopping trains around Los Angeles and the ...

Ghost Pine #10: Wires

by Jeff Ghostpine

More terrific Ghostpine stories. A fine literary mind, Jeff raises the bar for nuanced, writerly storytelling in ...

The East Village Inky #33

by Ayun Holliday

Ayun writes a delightful quarterly zine mostly about being a New York City mother and the adventures she has with ...

Gordon Smalls Goes to Jail: An Act of Comicide

by Ken Dahl

That Gordon Smalls! In one zine he describes (complete with pictures) how he pees in the shower, which involves ...

The East Village Inky #32

by Ayun Holliday

Ayun writes a delightful quarterly zine mostly about being a New York City mother and the adventures she has with ...

Guns for Hire

by Various

A collectors item from the anti-colonial struggles of the seventies. This text details how the US military and CIA ...

Five Simple Steps to Greater Joy In This World of Sorrow

by Wayne Brenner

Feeling troubled and distraught with the world? This zine is here to help. Without giving away all of the answers, ...

Free to Choose zine

by Esther Eberhardt

Not just another pro-choice zine; this is an introduction to the history of underground abortion and a call to learn ...

Foulweather #1

by Pete Lewis

Focusing largely on issues of global politics and immigration, "Foulweather" picks up where "Coming to America" ...

Fat is Beautiful zine

by Crystal Hartman

A collection of thoughts, articles, and reprints about America's fat-phobic, sizism, and pointing us toward fat ...

Found Magazine #4

by Davy Rothbart

Davy Rothbart publishes letters, notes, leaflets and other effluvia gathered from the streets of cities and towns ...

Found Magazine #1

by Davy Rothbart

Davy Rothbart publishes letters, notes, leaflets and other effluvia gathered from the streets of cities and towns ...

Found Magazine #3

by Davy Rothbart

Davy Rothbart publishes letters, notes, leaflets and other effluvia gathered from the streets of cities and towns ...

Found Magazine #2

by Davy Rothbart

Davy Rothbart publishes letters, notes, leaflets and other effluvia gathered from the streets of cities and towns ...

Girl / Boy #2

by robnoxious

Rob Noxious (The Fall of America) teams up with Shyla Ann to talk about gender roles in extreme depth! They each ...

Full Tilt #2: Dancing Away from Home

by Megan Gendell

A tale of Megan's high school years living away from her parents while training to be a professional dancer at a ...

Flying Lesson #10

by Ali Haimson

This is Ali Haimson's personal zine where she spills the beans about the goings on in her life. This issue is quite ...

Emergency #5

by Ammi Emergency

Ami is an amazing writer and story teller who writes about a rocky time in her life, "the ocean and the hills". ...

El Otro Lado Zine

by Sascha Scatter

Sascha Scatter provides us with an account of his trainhopping trip to Mexico and what he encounters there. This ...

The East Village Inky #26

by Ayun Holliday

Ayun writes a delightful quarterly zine mostly about being a New York City mother and the adventures she has with ...

Frugal Vegan's Harvest and Holiday Survival Guide

by Lisa Van den Boomen

A gigantic cookbook from Montreal spilling over with exciting recipes for people without a lot of cash to thrown ...

Green Zine #14

by Cristy Road

Cristy Road has always brought us breathtaking artwork (some of my favorite) along with literary stories that ...

Go By Bicycle #3

by Scott Larkin

Scott writes a smart, engaging zine about bicycle advocacy, bike culture, public transit issues, and the darkside ...

Gift Certificate!

by Microcosm Pub et al

With all these items in our catalog, it's sometimes hard to find the perfect gift for someone else. Why not take the ...

Guerilla Greywater Girls Guide to Water

by Various

Some brief history of rivers, dams, water power, water Infrastructure, good house/bad house, breaking the water ...

Go By Bicycle #1

by Scott Larkin

Scott writes a smart, engaging zine about bicycle advocacy, bike culture, public transit issues, and the dark side ...

End of a Perfect Day #8

by The Captain

This zine is mainly bicycle focused, and maintains intelligent points of view and thought out analysis. It went ...

End of a Perfect Day #9: Tales of Anatolia

by The Captain

This zine is mainly bicycle focused, and maintains intelligent points of view and thought out analysis. It went ...

Go By Bicycle #2

by Scott Larkin

Scott writes a smart, engaging zine about bicycle advocacy, bike culture, public transit issues, and the darkside ...

Ghost Pine #8: Wolf

by Jeff Ghostpine

Jeff has a way of crafting hand written sentences that make even the dullest moments worthy of reading about. He ...

Ghost Pine #7: Blood

by Jeff Ghostpine

Jeff serves up another great serving of Ghostpine stories. He's one of the literary masterminds of our life time ...

The Flow Chronicles

by Urban Hermitt

"Hi. My name is Hermitt. Not like a Hermitt who lives in a cave or is a wingnut saint. Hermitt, as in one of those ...

Emergency #3

by Ammi Emergency

Ami is an amazing writer and story teller who writes about metaphorical monsters, the World Trade Center collapsing ...

Emergency #4

by Ammi Emergency

Ami is an amazing writer and story teller who writes about metaphorical monsters, the World Trade Center collapsing ...

End of a Perfect Day #7

by The Captain

Damien is a fantastic storyteller whether he?s talking about biking around Europe in issue #6 or talking about the ...

Fascism Zine

by anonymous

This booklet is quite frightening and quite interesting, successfully playing off humanity's fascination with war. ...

Figure 8 #2

by Krissy Durden

Krissy's zine tells us about the dangers of gastric bypass surgery and stomach staples and how they are often ...

Firewood #1

by Sine Firewood

I felt better as soon as I opened this first issue of Firewood. Reading about "building your own house, growing ...

Go Fuck Yourself

by Annie Danger

Go Fuck Yourself is a pro sex, trans friendly DIY sex toy making guide; reusing scraps like inner tubes and ...

Ghost Pine #6

by Jeff Ghostpine

Jeff has a way of crafting hand written sentences that make even the dullest moments worthy of reading about. He ...

a Gentrification Reader

How often do you think about gentrification? Probably not often, unless it’s happening right around you. I know ...

Evasion Book

by CrimethInc

Evasion is a non-fiction hobo travelogue in which the author manages to evade the authorities for trespassing, ...

Girl / Boy #4

by robnoxious

Rob Noxious (The Fall of America) teams up with Shyla Ann to talk about gender roles in extreme depth! They each ...

East Village Inky #41

by Ayun Halliday

Ayun writes a delightful quarterly zine mostly about being a New York City mother and the adventures she has with her ...