Art and Design

How to Thrive / How to Starve poster

by Joe Biel

Recently, an artist friend celebrated a modicum of success after five years of hard work. Many people cheered and ...

How to Make a Decision (vertical) poster

by Joe Biel

 Life is full of major decisions and often we get lost and mired in the slog of figuring out what's best for us, ...

21 Years of Good Trouble: The Microcosm Publishing Sampler

by Julia Alekseyeva, Liz Baillie, Alexander Barrett, Nate Beaty, Joe Biel, Elly Blue, Moe Bowstern, Kyle Bravo, Raleigh Briggs, Bill Brown, Al Burian, Ethan Clark, Andy Cornell, Ken Dahl, Bill Daniel, Holly Davis, Bert Davis, Stephen Duncombe, Nicole Georges, Steve Gevurtz, Pete Glanting, Cecilia Granata, Shawn Granton, Urban Hermitt, Asbjorn Intonsus, John Isaacson, Shelley Lynn Jackson, Sandor Ellix Katz, Cynthia Marts, Mia Partlow & Michael Hoerger, Tom Neely, Joshua Ploeg, Nate Powell, Jesse Reklaw, Cristy Road, Dave Roche, Keith Rosson and Jim Rugg

To celebrate our twenty first anniversary, we put together this compilation of work from our authors and artists, ...

Cabin Porn

Created by a group of friends who preserve 55 acres of hidden forest in Upstate New York-Cabin Porn began as a ...

ART philosophy

by Sage Liskey

Star Wars: Jedi Academy: Attack of the Journal

by Jeffrey Brown

The companion journal to the New York Times Bestselling series Star Wars: Jedi Academy!Roan won't be attending Jedi ...

Mutant Rocker: The Art of Randy "Biscuit" Turner, Volume 1

by David Ensminger and Randy Turner

Mutant Rocker is a tribute to Randy "Biscuit" Turner featuring essays, art, fanzine clippings, and more. Turner was an ...

Fluke #14: 40 Show Flyers From Little Rock, Arkansas! 1988-1992

by Matthew Thompson

The newest Fluke is just what the title says -- a collection of show flyers from a formative period of the Little Rock ...

Scam: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue!

by Erick Lyle

Whoa it's a huge issue of Scam, going back to roots in honor of the zine's 25th anniversary. Good old fashioned ...

Corita Kent poster (Power Up)

by Shannon Gerard and Mary Tremonte

Power Up! Corita Kent was a radical educator, silkscreen printing pop artist, and activist agitator whose ...

Woody Guthrie poster

by Scout

“There’s a Better World that’s a Comin'” Printed at the worker-owned Stumptown Printers, Portland, ...

Québec 2001: Confronting The FTAA poster

by Stefan Christoff and Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo

“Confronting the FTAA: Thousands of people from across the Americas converged April 20th to 22nd, 2001 to ...

Man Crafts: Leather Tooling, Fly Tying, Ax Whittling and Other Cool Things to Do

by Popular Mechanics

As its servicemen returned home at the end of World War II, the US Army turned to Popular Mechanics to help them find ...

Monthly Manifestation Manual

by Kelly Cree, School of Life Design and Jessica Mullen

Spend a month manifesting your greatest desires and potential. This planner gives you 31 days' worth of exercises for ...

Comestible: Issue 5

by Anna Brones

The fifth issue of this beautiful, thoughtful, weighty zine about food and food culture is dedicated to the idea of ...

Introvert Doodles: An Illustrated Look at Introvert Life in an Extrovert World

by Maureen Wilson

As seen on Happify Daily! "Marzi's charming and irreverent illustrations are exactly what young and old introverts ...

Incandescent: A color film zine: Issue Eleven

by Helen Jones

 "The press is your hands. The finger on the fire, the pull of the arm, the weight of the paper." -from the ...

Make a Zine!: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution

by Joe Biel and Bill Brent

Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm’s ...

How to Make It: 25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business

by Erin Austen Abbott

This is the ultimate tell-all, show-all guide to making a living by making things. Featuring 25 profiles of ...

Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the Patriarchy

by Bonnie Burton

This is what a feminist crafter looks like! Crafting with Feminism features 25 irreverent and easy-to-make projects ...

Protest Stencil Toolkit

by Patrick Thomas

This book contains 46 die-cut stencils and a stencil typeface which can be used to create slogans and powerful visual ...

100 Years of Tattoos

by David McComb

Over the past century, tattoos have emerged from the underground. From body art's early association with sailors, ...

Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything

by Aaron James Draplin

Esquire. Ford Motors. Burton Snowboards. The Obama Administration. While all of these brands are vastly different, ...

On the Loom: A Modern Weaver's Guide

by Maryanne Moodie

In On the Loom, Maryanne Moodie brings the ancient art of weaving to the modern day in a comprehensive guide packed ...

Annie Diggs poster

by Emi Gennis

“It has been said that the biggest man in the Populist Party of Kansas today is a woman,” wrote The ...

Haskell Indian Industrial Training School poster

by Lana Grove

Haskell Indian Nations University began as the U.S. Indian Industrial Training School. It was one of the ...

Dockum Drug Store Sit-In poster

by Cheyenne Garrison

In 1958, Carol Parks Hahn and Ron Walters, two Wichita NAACP youth leaders, decided to protest segregation of ...

Young Lords Organization poster

by Ricardo Levins Morales

The Young Lords Organization was born in 1968 when a Puerto Rican Chicago street gang turned to political ...

Puddle's Great Treasure

by Lauren Hage

Lauren Hage's very first book! Written and illustrated when she was 11 years old. It's the story of a dog named Puddles ...

Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff

by James Gulliver Hancock

This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating ...