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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, ...

Cometbus #49

by Aaron Cometbus

This is a contributor issue of Cometbus. It's got a TON of stuff, including some gritty, experimental poems, an ...

Major Taylor: World Champion

by Fred Noland

Things That Help: Healing Our Lives Through Feminism, Anarchism, Punk, & Adventure

by Cindy Crabb

Living in the margins of a culture she never felt comfortable in, Cindy Crabb touches on her experiences with feminism, ...

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of ...

My Personal History of Race

by Lauren Hage

A short essay about how genetics, race, and PTSD can go hand in hand. Lauren writes about the effects of both childhood ...

Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D

by David Kushner and Koren Shadmi

Rise of the Dungeon Master tells, in graphic form, the story of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, one ...

Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell

by W. Kamau Bell

You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve ...

Kaiho

by Lauren Hage

A coming of age story about a small town mid-western teen struggling with the issues of: race, drugs, queer culture, ...

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

by Malala Yousafzai

"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."When the Taliban ...

Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love

by Marissa Moss

Last Things is the true and intensely personal story of how one woman coped with the devastating effects of a ...

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

by Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes has created, written, and produced hit television shows like Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. She is an ...

Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza

by Colin Atrophy Hagendorf

Over the course of two years, a twenty-something punk rocker eats a cheese slice from every pizzeria in New York ...

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

by Jesmyn Ward

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next ...

Evasion

by Mack Evasion

Evasion is simultaneously full of hands-on instructions for basic scams and new ideas for how to obtain all of the ...

Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure

by Kari Herbert and Huw Lewis-Jones

The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are ...

Accepting Failure

by Ana López

This zine feels simultaneously handwritten in a single draft and deeply thoughtful and profound. Ana traces historical ...

Why I Got My Breast Reduction

by Heather Jackson

 "My name is Heather, I am an anarchist, and I am getting a breast reduction," begins this zine. Heather talks us ...

Simba: Issue #14

by Vique Martin

"the thoughts and emotions of a radical feminist. because the personal will always be the political." That's the ...

When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

by Cleve Jones

Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out ...

$20 Superpack: Get To Know Joe

by Joe Biel and Super Pack!

If your curious about wanting to know more things Joe, then this is the super pack for you! You'll learn that he ...

A Chef's Tale #1: Strange Traveler's Tales of Food, Sex, Random Occurrences, and Other Culinary Disasters

by Joshua Ploeg

Joshua Ploeg is a touring post-punk vegan chef and these are his harried tales of traveling the Greyhound with sex ...

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

by Audre Lorde

“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the ...

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us

by Kate Bornstein

“I know I’m not a man . . . and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The ...

Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson

by will bingley and Anthony Hope-Smith

Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson’s extraordi­nary life he was publicly branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a ...

Cherry Blossoms in Bloom

by Chris Kill

This week I’ve been hanging out with my friend Karolina who grew up in Biel, Germany and came to my high school as a ...

Asperger's & The Re:Spectrum of Human Emotions/Perfect Mix Tape Segue #6: Asperger's & Intellectually Understanding Empathy

by Joe Biel

Recommended for anyone who is or knows someone on the autism spectrum (or suspects they might!), this zine looks at the ...

Growing Up with G.I. Joe's

by Janna Orkney

This memoir entwines childhood memories of Portland with an intimate history of the evolution of the G.I. Joe's retail ...

Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter

by Dan Méndez Moore

This is the graphic history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the ...

The Education of Little Tree

by Forrest Carter

A tender reminiscence of the author's childhood with his Cherokee grandparents, this ABBY Award Winner Book of the Year ...