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Zinester's Guide to Portland: A Low/No Budget Guide to the Rose City
by Shawn Granton Author
Billed as a "low/no budget guide to visiting and living in Portland, Oregon, the Zinester's Guide to Portland breaks…
$7.95 21 comments
View Details Quick ShopMaking Stuff and Doing Things: DIY Guides to Just About Everything
by Kyle Bravo Editor
When you’re young, broke, and in search of a life of adventure, Making Stuff and Doing Things is the most useful book…
$16.95 37 comments
View Details Quick ShopThis Is Portland: The City You've Heard You Should Like
by Alexander Barrett Author and Andrew Dickson Author
Updated with a new edition for 2018 and 50% additional material, This is Portland is a first-hand look at a city that…
$7.95 9 comments
View Details Quick ShopCatalog (Fall/Winter 2022)
by Various Author
Want to get off the internet? For many years we've been trying to create a catalog that simultaneously meets the needs…
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Add to CartThis Is Shanghai: What It's Like To Live In The World's Most Populous City
by Alexander Barrett Author
This is Shanghai is a firsthand account of expat life in China's (and the world's) largest city! Like a guidebook, it…
$7.95
View Details Quick ShopThis Is San Francisco: The Ups, Downs, Ins, and Outs of the City by the Bay
by Alexander Barrett Author
In the same vein as his other two evocative love letters to cities, This Is Portland and This Is Shanghai,…
$12.95
View Details Quick ShopMostly True: The West's Most Popular Hobo Graffiti Magazine
by Bill Daniel Author
In Texas in the early 1900s, a little chalk drawing started to appear on boxcars: a minimalist sketch of a figure with a…
$14.95 19 comments
View Details Quick ShopWalking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland
by Laura O. Foster Author
This unique travel guide explores the streets, schools, characters, and neighborhoods of author Beverly Cleary’s…
$9.95 12 comments
View Details Quick ShopPortland Stair Walks: Explore Portland, Oregon's Public Stairways
by Laura O. Foster Author
Why is it so satisfying to walk up and down stairs? Maybe it's the new layer of discovery with each step up—a new…
$16.95 2 comments
View Details Quick Shop2023 Slingshot Organizer (large)
by Slingshot Collective Author
Any activist's necessity for over 25 years, the large Slingshot organizer is a spiral-bound 2023 day planner that lies…
$20.00 $17.00 4 comments
Zinester's Guide to NYC
by Ayun Halliday Author
Society of American Travel Writers Guidebook Award Winner! In the tradition of our DIY city guide The Zinester's Guide…
$9.99 16 comments
View Details Quick ShopDwelling Portably: 1990-1999
by Bert Davis Author
"For the past 30 years, Bert and Holly have been cranking this out on a manual typewriter in their yurt. You'll find…
$8.00 12 comments
View Details Quick ShopMy Life in a Jugular Vein: Three More Years of Snake Pit Comics 2004-2006
by Ben Snakepit Author
In a sense, despite turning the big 3-0, Ben Snakepit captures the same spirit in the comics he draws, summarizing each…
$15.00 17 comments
View Details Quick ShopDwelling Portably: 1980-1989
by Bert Davis Author
Dwelling Portably has been crammed full of information about living without a permanent residence for nearly 30 years!…
$8.00 24 comments
View Details Quick ShopIn Search of the Lost Taste
by Joshua Ploeg Author
Joshua Ploeg's cooking blows my mind so much that a secret door opens in the back of my head and white doves, musical…
$8.00 19 comments
View Details Quick ShopXtra Tuf: The Strike Issue
by Moe Bowstern Author
Meet Moe Bowstern: writer, fisherwoman, and tough cookie. Moe is a woman working in the male-dominated commercial…
$7.95 11 comments
View Details Quick Shop13 Years of Good Luck: The Microcosm Publishing Sampler
by Julia Alekseyeva Contributor, Lee Baillie Contributor, Moe Bowstern Contributor, Alexander Barrett Contributor, Nate Beaty Contributor, 32 more
To celebrate our thirteenth anniversary of publishing books and zines about self-empowerment, we put together this…
$3.00 8 comments
View Details Quick ShopHop in the Saddle: A Guide to Portland's Craft Beer Scene, by Bike
by Lucy Burningham Author, Ellee Thalheimer Author and Laura Cary Illustrator
Bicycling and craft brew—it doesn’t get more Portland. For the first time, a guide marries these two worlds by…
$9.95 1 comment
View Details Quick ShopMaps to the Other Side: The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer
by Sascha Altman DuBrul Author
Part mad manifesto, part revolutionary love letter, part freight train adventure story—Maps to the Other Side is a…
$15.95 16 comments
View Details Quick ShopScam: The First Four Issues
by Erica Dawn Lyle Author
The classic zine Scam was equal parts an introductory guide on how to get things for free and punk memoir. Youths…
$16.00 12 comments
View Details Quick ShopBurn Collector #15
by Al Burian Author and Anne Elizabeth Moore Contributor
The expatriated Al Burian reflects on a year spent living in Berlin, Germany. His wildly free-range topics include:…
$3.00
Add to CartWelcome to the Dahl House: Alienation, Incarceration, and Inebriation in the new American Rome
by Ken Dahl Author
Ken Dahl's 1997-2007 comics are collected in this graphic novel anthology! Includes stories of airport security, the…
$7.00 21 comments
View Details Quick ShopRailroad Semantics #1: Eugene, Portland, Pocatello, and Back!
by Aaron Dactyl Author
Devoted to trainhopping and railroad culture, Aaron Dactyl's first Railroad Semantics zine describes the sights,…
$7.95 4 comments
View Details Quick ShopRailroad Semantics #2: Southern Oregon, Northern California
by Aaron Dactyl Author
From train-hopping to hobo graffiti, maps to camps, Aaron gives the goods in a well-written style that's both…
$7.95 3 comments
View Details Quick ShopCambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh
by Anne Elizabeth Moore Author
Winner of The Society of American Travel Writer's Bronze Travel Book Award! In Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in…
$7.95 11 comments
View Details Quick ShopThe Flow Chronicles
by Urban Hermitt Author
The Flow Chronicles is the confused, horny, philosophical nomadic Hermitt against the world. A raw, druggy, sexed-up…
$10.00 9 comments
View Details Quick ShopRailroad Semantics #3: Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, California, Wyoming, Eugene, Portland, Cheyenne, Roseville, Dunsmuir, Denver
by Aaron Dactyl Author
Railroad Semantics' third issue combines personal accounts of train hopping with a slew of diverse railroad-themed…
$7.95 1 comment
View Details Quick ShopRailroad Semantics #4: Train Hopping Across Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, California, and Oregon
by Aaron Dactyl Author
In the fourth issue of Railroad Semantics, seasoned train-hopper Aaron takes you along on an epic train journey through…
$7.95 4 comments
View Details Quick ShopHello Cleveland: Things You Should Know About the Most Unique City in the World
by Nick Perry Author and Jason Look Illustrator
Hello Cleveland unlocks the hidden, larger-than life history and culture of Cleveland, Ohio, possibly the country's most…
$12.95
View Details Quick ShopThings That Help: Healing Our Lives Through Feminism, Anarchism, Punk, & Adventure
by Cindy Crabb Author
Living in the margins of a culture she never felt comfortable in, Cindy Crabb (Doris zine) touches on her experiences…
$16.95
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