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13 Years of Good Luck

OUT NOW! To celebrate our thirteenth anniversary, we put together this compilation of work from our authors and artists. It’s a super cheapo deal so you can check out things in our catalog that you may have missed or find your new favorite artist. With something from virtually everyone we’ve published before and new work from Al Burian, Liz Baillie, Keith Rosson, John Isaacson, Cristy Road, and more, what more could you want for just $1?

The Dirty South/Hot Damn & Hell Yeah

OUT NOW!! The third edition of two great vegan cookbooks combined: Vanessa Johnson’s southern vegan stylings and Ryan Splint’s southwestern ones! Includes new illustrations, new design, new cover, and most importantly a new recipe – for crazy hippie spring rolls!

Grease/SVO-powered RV Cube Truck. $3,000!

1989 Isuzu NPR Boxtruck with 304,000 miles—$3,000. 4 cylinder engine converted to run on Diesel or Waste Vegetable Oil (svo/wvo/Biodiesel). Automatic Transmission. Box has been fully converted to liveable rv space with windows, shower, two beds, kitchen, table, storage, and sink. Was home to several different people before being used for a touring vehicle. We are selling because we simply do not use it enough.

Ideal for delivery vehicle, rv, home residence, or touring vehicle. In the last two years we have replaced: starter, alternator, batteries, tires, transmission, accelerator cable, fuel filtration systems, hoses, wiper motors, and just about everything but the brakes and engine. We have added two new heating systems to the svo fuel fuel line, fuel gauages for both tanks, and so much more. We’ve maintained things as needed and it’s really just a shame that it makes more sense to let it go. We’ve invested over seven times the asking price!

Dwelling Portably 2000-2008

OUT NOW! “Practical advice about low-budget motion by choice — camping on the edges, living simply, getting by on the road and loving it. It’s for modern nomads in the US choosing alternative lifestyles to working 9-5 in the same place. You get hard-won need-to-know wisdom like: How to live in cars. How to buy staples for 25 cents per pound. Can you camp in U-Hauls? Where can you find a cheap dentist? The dangers of social services taking kids without a house. Fixing a free bike for long-haul travel. etc.” – Cool Tools

Zine Yearbook #9

OUT NOW!! 2007’s Zine Yearbook #9 is at the printer! The annual anthology of zine reprints now includes relevant articles about the year in zines – super fun zine fests, life changing experiences, amazing pen pal connections, and stories from people who hold zines dear to their hearts. It’s a representative collection of not only reprints from zines published in 2007 but also a pulse of what 2007 was like for zines! Twice the size of previous zine yearbooks with mostly preserved original layouts!

Make a Zine!

New Edition for 2008! OUT NOW! Ask anyone who works for a magazine — it’s a job. Ask anyone who works on their zine — it’s a passion. And this book is a starting point for launching your own zine. A virtually endless supply of hints makes this an indespensible guide and the appendices add extensive directories of stores, libraries, reviewers, and zine distributors.

Notes from Underground

OUT NOW! New Edition for 2008! Much history and theory is uncovered here in the first comprehensive study of zine publishing. From their origins in early 20th century science fiction cults, their more proximate roots in ‘60s counter-culture and their rapid proliferation in the wake of punk rock, Stephen Duncombe pays full due to the political importance of zines as a vital network of popular culture. He also analyzes how zines measure up to their utopian and escapist outlook in achieving fundamental social change. Packed with extracts and illustrations, he provides a useful overview of the contemporary underground in all its splendor and misery.

On Subbing, Third Edition!

Dave Roche has been camping out in Kansas City and tagged a new epilogue onto the 3rd edition of his daily account of working as an education assistant in Portland public schools. Plus tons of corrected errors, updated content, new jokes, and now BLUE! Check out Dave’s midwest tour in July!

Snakepit 2007

OUT NOW! Follow Ben through his daily life illustrated as 3 comic panel adventures involving beer, weed, work, shows, tour, love, and parties filled with monsters. His drawing and writing style is sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. Each day is illustrated along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. The quarterly and bi-monthly formats are no more, and now each year will be collected in a single slim paperback, just like in the beginning.

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