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Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing, Publishers Weekly's #1 fastest-growing publisher of 2022 and #3 in 2023. Biel has been featured in Time Magazine, Esquire, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll, as well as on NPR and PBS. Biel is the author of A People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business, Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business with Autism, and dozens more. Biel is the director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, $100 & a T-Shirt, and the Groundswell film series. Biel lives in Portland, OR. Find out more at joebiel.net.
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Pin #177Save $8,000 and smile more
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Pin #173Free Parking
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Patch #213Save $8,000 and smile more
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Patch #199There's A Special Place In Hell For Bike Thieves
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Sure someone might be a better person for riding a bike rather than a car, but that doesn’t excuse karma! Say…
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If It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk: D. un I. t Y.
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Over the last fifteen years, Plan-it X Records helped foster a huge cultural revolution, uniting geographically divided…
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Sticker #273There's A Special Place In Hell For Bike Thieves
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Car thieves? We couldn't care less about 'em. But when it comes to bike thieves, we believe that there's a special place…
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Pin #126Resist Gossip
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The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #5: Sickness and Health
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This new issue details over fifteen years of Joe Biel's improving and declining physical health as he battles doctors,…
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Patch #214Ask Me About Freeway Removal
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There have been murmurs that when Eisenhower, the designer of the interstate highway system, learned that freeways had…
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The Zine Yearbook #9
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The Zine Yearbook #9 contains a representative collection of reprints from zines published in 2007 and also a pulse…
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Sticker #262Fuck The Corporate Fashion Designers! Make your own clothes!
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Why should an elite few corporate-backed designers decide what we wear, what looks good, what makes you hot or not? You…
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You Can Work Any Hundred Hours a Week (In Your Underwear)!!: The Story of Microcosm Publishing
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The history of the first ten years of Microcosm Publishing, told in graphic detail! For the first time ever, read about…
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$100 & a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest
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A cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell zines are, why people make zines, the origin of…
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Big Patch #102Fix Shit Up
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Another broken door or a series of unfortunate relationships? Well then, there’s nothing that a few pounds of a hammer…
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Pin #141Orwell Was Right
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Is it 1984 or am I going crazy from being watched by the government? Oh George, if only we had heeded your warning…
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The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #2: Brutal Honest Tea
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The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #3: Getting a Vasectomy
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Joe Biel strives to find logic, purpose, and meaning in his existence once again. This issue is about friends having…
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Cantankerous Titles & Obscure Ephemera
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"Joe Biel's collection of "talkies" perfectly embodies the D.I.Y. doc mantra of "just get out there and shoot it."…
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Sticker #240I Don't Need a War to Power My Bicycle
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Whether they own up to it or not, the vast majority of the wars currently being fought by the US military are for oil.…
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Pin #149Sweetheart Chainring
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A real, classic chainring set from approximately the 1950s. Love your bike means something real here 1" round pinback…
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Patch #131Towards Car Free Cities
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Thanks to your car-free diet, you help the ecosystem, cut down on oil waste, and have a better view of the world. This…
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Sticker #239Car Free
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Put a "Free Car" sign on your mechanical monster and grab a bike and this cool sticker! This sticker lets the world know…
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Sticker #236Burn Carbohydrates, Not Hydrocarbons
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Who would have thought a weatherproof sticker would look so good in the rain? Burn carbohydrates, not hydrocarbons -…
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Sticker #234Support Your Local Co-ops
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Cooperative businesses have no hierarchy! Support your local worker-led efforts, be they co-op grocery stores,…
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The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #3: The PATRIOT Act
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A look at the way the PATRIOT act and post 9/11 security measures infected our civil liberties and infringed upon basic…
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Patch #110Throw Away Corvette
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Put the automobile where it belongs: in the trashcan. Society can't afford to subsidize them. The lobbies are too…
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Sticker #215Flag Barcode
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Americonsumer? (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black or pink print on a white background. Depicts an upside-down american…
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Sticker #208Violence is to a dictatorship what propaganda is to a democracy
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Something to ponder. The powers that be will find a way to control you, whether that be through physical force, or…
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Pin #147Evolution
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Don't just spin your wheels, evolve! This 1" round pinback button is perfect if you like cycling or believe in, you…
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Patch #083Who Would Jesus Bomb?
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Oh the hypocrisy of the theological underpinnings of the military industrial complex. We've read the New Testament and…
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