Posts By: microcosm

Brainfag Forever (BFF)

OUT NOW! BFF: Brainfag Forever! collects nearly a decade of Nate Beaty’s self-published comics. Brainfag is a medical term for “brain fatigue,” culled from a turn-of-the-century Grape-Nuts ad. Nate uses comics to explore self-expression, love, love lost, the ups and downs of urban existence versus living off the grid, balancing art and coding on the computer, and generally keeping sanity in a world gone mad. Featuring extensive new material explaining each issue, including the first 25 years of his life in five pages! Climb inside the head of a cartoonist using comics as cheap therapy.

Dwelling Portably 1980-89

OUT NOW! These little suckers have been crammed full of information about living without a permanent residence for nearly 30 years! Super helpful and informative tips for biking, tents, showering, cooking, and living. Written by many folks who have lived the lifestyle far outside of cities and bereft of technology. According to many readers, ’80-86 was their best material and here it is reprinted again in entirity (sans things that have become obsolete).

Invincible Summer, Volume II

OUT NOW! After years of over-caffeination and restless free time, acclaimed artist and writer Nicole J Georges has amassed hundreds of pages of autobiographic comics, lush illustrations of doggies and elephants, and confessional diary entries in her zine Invincible Summer. This volume presents the next four years in the continuing adventures of our intrepid hero and her tumultuous, yet always entertaining, life.

Welcome to the Dahl House

OUT NOW! The collected 1997-2007 comics of Ken Dahl in this graphic novel anthology! Includes all of his minis, short stories, anthology works, and unpublished work including such titles as “Taken For a Ride”, “Gordon Smalls Goes to Jail”, “No!”, and “Blind Fart”! 2006 Ignatz Winner!

X Ray Visions (DVD) – NEW EDITION!

OUT NOW! An in-depth account of one of the most important cultural epicenters in Portland’s history, “X-Ray Visions” tells the story of the X-Ray Cafe, an ABC NO RIO/924 Gilman-esque “Nightclub” that hosted bands like Green Day, Crash Worship, Nation of Ulysses, Neurosis, Everclear, and virtually every touring act from ’89-’94. Did you ever wonder how Portland appeared on the map as THE epicenter for weird, alternative arts and culture? It was because of the X-Ray – an entirely unique all-ages venue with a true “anything goes” aesthetic–a punk band, a circus act, toddlers banging on things, language classes, 25 cent advice, and spanking evangelist might all appear on a single bill – and its presence in Old Town in the early 90’s put Portland on the map as a radical, rock and roll kind of town. Comes with a bonus CD soundtrack of former X-Ray regular acts, including Hazel, Dead Moon, Big Daddy Meat Straw, New Bad Things, Unwound, Crackerbash, Frances Farmer Gals, and more! Tightened up editing with a new cover by Sean Tejeratchi (Craphound!)

The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #5!

OUT NOW! The latest installment of this pseudo-anonymously penned, informational zine discusses at length the details of Iran/Contra. In 1986 the President was at the helm – secretly selling weapons to our enemies in Iran and then illegally using the profits to fund the anti-Sandinista rebel Contras, in Nicaragua. Relive the excitement – the cake in the shape of a key, world leaders lying through their teeth, and everyone denying responsibility and knowledge that it was even going on in the first place!

Still We Ride (DVD) – NEW VERSION!

OUT NOW! A new version of this awesome documentary about Critical Mass bike rides after the Republican National Convention crackdowns in New York! DVD includes a new Fly comic zine about Times Up! and 6 new bonus shorts including “Dooring PSA”, “Gears for Fears”, “Hit a Frog”, “Congestion Pricing”, “Unconventional Critical Mass”, Chris Carlson Interview, and “Memorial Ride”.

Indestructible – 2nd Edition!

OUT NOW! A new edition of Cristy Road’s coming-of-age novel “Indestructible” – this time without the typos! Yay!

Bamboozled: The Joey Torrey Story

OUT NOW! In 1979 a strong Los Angeles kid boxer was headed to the Olympics, now he’s in Maximum Security Prison – Joey Torrey was pressured to collaborate with the FBI to “clean up boxing” and paid back with empty promises and a forseeable future in prison – or murdered for being a snitch! Joey discovered zines in prison and decided that this was how he wanted to publish his memoir – and boy does he have stories to tell! He grew up on the streets of Compton where he learned to box. Now he lives in the pen between Sirhan Sirhan and Charles Manson (whom he answers mail for). Told in his own words to the few people that he trusted, his story is finally broadcast.

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