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, ...

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

by Austin Kleon

You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer ...

HI FRUCTOSE: Vol. 44

Katie Daisy notepads

Cannabis Fantasy Cool Coloring Book

by Re

Cannabis Fantasy is a cool marijuana-themed coloring book geared for adults. Twenty amazingly detailed images provide ...

ART philosophy

by Sage Liskey

This hand-watercolored mini-zine contains Sage's philosophy of art, beautifully boiled down to its absolute essentials.

Portland Made: The Makers of Portland’s Manufacturing Renaissance

by Peggy Acott and Kelley Roy

Explore the work of Portland's artisans, makers, and manufacturers that have built successful businesses through their ...

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 ...

Pound o' zines!

by Various

Zines! A love letter meets an obsession! These pre-weighed sixteen ounces of joy consist of a random assortment of ...

Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture

by Stephen Duncombe

"Zines and underground culture offer up an alternative, a way of understanding and acting in the world that operates ...

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 ...

The East Village Inky #58

by Ayun Halliday

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

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 ...

A Very Brief History of Buttons

by Busy Beaver Button Co

As the title suggests, the 24-page zine is a quick look at the history of pin-backs, told through photos of buttons ...

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, ...