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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.
Sticker #102I Heart My Bike
by Joe Biel Author
If you love your bike, perhaps you need a sticker to make sure everyone else knows. Plus, you can hit two birds with one…
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View Details Quick ShopSticker #105Bombing for Peace is Like Fucking for Virginity
by Joe Biel Author
How could anybody ever be fooled into believing that you could save anybody with bombs? This one makes the absurdity of…
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Add to CartGood Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Autism
by Joe Biel Author, Joyce Brabner Foreword and Sander Hicks Foreword
The history of Microcosm Publishing, from its origins as a record label and zine distro in Joe Biel's bedroom closet in…
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View Details Quick ShopAlive with Vigor: Surviving Your Adventurous Lifestyle
by Robert Wildwood Editor, Buck Angel Contributor, Joe Biel Contributor, Natalye Childress Contributor, Cheyenne Winters Contributor, 3 more
Alive With Vigor! compiles stories of surviving—and thriving—from a wide spectrum of contributors. Deeply personal…
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View Details Quick ShopPatch #078Put the Fun Between Your Legs (shirt style)
by Joe Biel Author
It's true! The bicycle is so much fun! Since when have you really been able to enjoy the sights around you when in a…
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Add to CartPin #046Pro Choice
by Joe Biel Author
Because abortions should be safe, legal, available, and shame-free. Smash the stigma with this 1" round pinback button…
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Add to CartPatch #058Chainring Heart
by Joe Biel Author, Aaron Renier Author and alex wrekk Author
A canvas patch bearing the ever-popular Microcosm logo! Our bicycle chainring heart speaks the truth. Originally…
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Add to CartSticker #098Fascism
by Joe Biel Author
This sturdy vinyl sticker defines fascism: "Concentrated private control of wealth, control of information, massive…
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Add to CartSticker #088In 1492 Indigenous people discovered Christopher Columbus lost at sea
by Joe Biel Author
Columbus, you murderous fool. (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black print on a white background. Reads: "In 1492 indigenous…
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Add to CartPin #018Question Everything
by Joe Biel Author
Ignorance is merely complacency. Take nothing at face value. Get curious! Everything should stand up to questioning,…
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Add to CartPin #145Put The Fun Between Your Legs
by Joe Biel Author
Do you love bicycling so much that you want to wear it on a 1" round pinback button? Let's celebrate fun and raciness.…
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Add to CartPin #127Chainring Heart
by Joe Biel Author, Aaron Renier Author and alex wrekk Author
The Microcosm chainring heart logo, in colorful goodness, on a 1" round pinback button. Bike love! Cycling passion!…
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Add to CartSticker #146Who Would Jesus Bomb?
by Joe Biel Author
WWJB doesn't quite roll of the tongue like WWJD.
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View Details Quick ShopThe CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #3: The PATRIOT Act
by Gena Mason Author, Joe Biel Series Editor and Keith Rosson Illustrator
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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Beyond The Music: How Punks are Saving the World with DIY Ethics, Skills, & Values
by Joe Biel Editor
Punk is notorious for its loud music, aggressive attitude, and safety-pinned style. Less well known is the radical value…
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View Details Quick ShopSticker #014Revolution Begins with an Individual
by Joe Biel Author
And another, and another, and another, and another, and..... (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black print on a white…
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Add to CartSticker #003Jesus Didn't Teach Hating Gay People
by Joe Biel Author
Love makes the world turn, people. (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black print on a white background. Reads: "Jesus…
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Add to CartThe CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #6: The Life of Lee Harvey Oswald
by Joe Biel Author with Abner Smith
An intimate, never-seen-before examination of the life and death of Lee Harvey Oswald. Where other would-be Oswald…
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View Details Quick ShopManspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior
by Joe Biel Author, Elly Blue Author and Meggyn Pomerleau Illustrator
You've heard of mansplaining, but what about manstitutions? From manologues to manversations, mantrums to manger, the…
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View Details Quick ShopThe Autism Handbook: Everything You Wanted to Know About Life on the Spectrum
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
What's it like to be autistic? As many as one in forty-five people live that reality every day, but our culture remains…
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View Details Quick ShopPatch #102Fix Shit Up
by Joe Biel Author
Are you tired of fucking shit up? Don’t worry, we all make mistakes but they are all fixable! Why not start with your…
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Neurodivergent Pride #2: A User Guide to Treating People Like People
by Temple Grandin, Ph.D Contributor, Joe Biel Editor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Gee23 Contributor, Kate McNulty Contributor, 4 more
Neurodiversity occupies a similar place in the public consciousness as gay rights did in the 1970s: most people on the…
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View Details Quick ShopSticker #121One More Bike
by Joe Biel Author
"Slow and steady wins the race" may be a proverb, but we've got something the tortoise never had: wheels. (Sturdy…
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Add to CartBicycle Culture Rising #1: Participatory & Grassroots Bicycle Movements
by Joe Biel Author
A social history and tactics lesson about the participatory and grassroots bicycle movements and their impact and…
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View Details Quick ShopSticker #240I Don't Need a War to Power My Bicycle
by Joe Biel Author
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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View Details Quick ShopSticker #091Bike Punx
by Joe Biel Author
How do you make bikes better? Add some punk. How do you make punk better? Add bikes. (Sturdy vinyl sticker with white…
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View Details Quick ShopPin #126Resist Gossip
by Joe Biel Author
Gossip dies when it hits a wise person's ears. Don't fall for it. Let others know you don't care for gossip with…
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Add to CartThe Zine Yearbook #9
by Joe Biel Editor, Steven Stothard Editor, Sparky Taylor Editor, Dillon V. Editor and Brittney Willis Editor
The Zine Yearbook #9 contains a representative collection of reprints from zines published in 2007 and also a pulse…
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View Details Quick Shopbig patch #078Put the Fun Between Your Legs
by Joe Biel Author
What's more fun than riding a bike? Perhaps riding two bikes on a date? Scratch that, let’s bring a whole club of…
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