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Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. He is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing and co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Art of Autism, Utne Reader, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. He is the author of People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business, Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business on the Spectrum, Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior, Make a Zine, The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting, Proud to be Retarded, Bicycle Culture Rising, and more. He 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. The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy described Biel as "not trained in pedagogy." He lives in Portland, Ore and his work can be found at joebiel.net

Patch #241: My Feminism Helps You Too
by Joe Biel Author and Elly Blue Author
So often we are told that feminism means that someone else is losing something. But intersectional feminism doesn't …
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How to Thrive / How to Starve
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Recently, an artist friend celebrated a modicum of success after five years of hard work. Many people cheered and …
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Sticker #092: A Profile for Mass Shootings? How About White Suburban Male.
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There's so much political resistance and debate around guns. While gun violence has been on tremendous decline for …
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Sticker #394: Kale 'Em All
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When you can no longer kale 'em with kindness, kale 'em all! Show your support for leafy greens with …
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Sticker #396: Driver taxes only pay for 1/2 of the road. Give the other 1/2 to bikes
by Joe Biel Author
We deserve an equal share of the road. Bikes are more likely to be hit on the road, very likely to be affected by road …
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$99 Superpack: 2017 Year o' Cosm
by Julia Alekseyeva Author, J. Hunter Bennett Author, Joe Biel Author, Raleigh Briggs Author, Cindy Crabb Author, 9 more
Were you busy during 2017 and didn't get as much chances as you wanted to look at books? Well, we were busy too! …
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$20 Superpack: Unemployment Care Package
by Joe Biel Author, Aaron Lake Smith Author, Super Pack! Author and Eleanor C. Whitney Author
Unemployed? Quit? Laid off? Downsized? Fired? Buyout? Golden handshake? Graduated? Jobless? Whatever the situation, …
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13 Years of Good Luck: The Microcosm Publishing Sampler
by Julia Alekseyeva Contributor, Lee Baillie Contributor, Alexander Barrett Contributor, Nate Beaty Contributor, Joe Biel Contributor, 32 more
To celebrate our thirteenth anniversary of publishing books and zines about self-empowerment, we put together this …
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$20 Superpack of Government Misdeeds
by Joe Biel Author, Andrew Lynn Author, Mia Partlow Author, Nate Powell Author, Elizabeth Press Author, 4 more
Worn out by the misdeeds spinning around the 24 hour news cycle? Turn off the computer, pick up a book, and read up on …
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Patch #197: Put The Fun Between Your Legs (long)
by Joe Biel Author
Seriously, we're talking about bicycling. Get your mind out of the gutter.
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Patch #058: Chainring 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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How to Make a Decision (vertical)
by Joe Biel Author
Life is full of major decisions and often we get lost and mired in the slog of figuring out what's best for us, or …
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Make a Zine!: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution
by Joe Biel Author with 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 …
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big patch #058: Chainring Heart
by Joe Biel Author, Aaron Renier Author and alex wrekk Author
Since 2002 this has been Microcosm's logo! What a fabulous way to celebrate love AND bicycling?
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How to Make a Decision (horizontal)
by Joe Biel Author
Life is full of major decisions and often we get lost and mired in the slog of figuring out what's best for us, or …
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How to Thrive / Starve & How to Make a Decision postcard
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Recently, an artist friend celebrated a modicum of success after five years of hard work. Many people cheered and …
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Sticker #313: Coexist
by Joe Biel Author
Why can't get we all just get along...on the roadway? A modern adaptation on this peacenik sentiment, showing …
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$20 Superpack: Rebel Alliance
by Dawson Barrett Author, Joe Biel Author, Elly Blue Author, John Gerlach Author, Dan Méndez Moore Author, 4 more
Want to join the Rebel Alliance? Congratulations, you're already on the team. These books will help get you primed …
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Ever Evolving Bastion of Freakdom: A Quimby's Bookstore History in Words and Pictures
by Liz Mason Editor, Steven Svymbersky Editor, Keith Helt Editor, Joe Biel Contributor, Anne Elizabeth Moore Contributor, 6 more
Quimby's Bookstore opened in Chicago 25 years ago and has been going full tilt ever since, providing a hub, outlet, …
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Patch #235: Disability Rights: Power to the People
by Joe Biel Author
It was requested by you, our fans, and we listen. Just like those who take pride on their bike wheels or ped feet, …
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Sticker #019: Punk Rock: Quality Marketed Rebellion since 1977
by Joe Biel Author
Rock out with this sticker.
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$20 Superpack: Books Brought to you By the letter B
by Nate Beaty Author, Joe Biel Author, Elly Blue Author, Al Burian Author, Keith Rosson Author, Sarah Royal Author and Super Pack! Author
Of all the letters in the alphabet, we probably have the most books that begin with a B! Get this bundle of B books: …
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Sticker #370: If you rented here you'd be homeless now
by Joe Biel Author
Priced out of your own neighborhood by quadrupling-plus rents? At least you can leave this tag behind.
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One Fewer Truck Magnet
by Joe Biel Author
Do you lack a truck, but own a bicycle? Would you like others to adopt a sans-truck lifestyle? Make your agenda clear …
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Live Free or Drive (train) Magnet
by Joe Biel Author
Ah, how I yearn for the days of the trolley taking us about. We could load up with bicycles and not worry about the …
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Live Free or Drive (words) Magnet
by Joe Biel Author
Let's skip right to the point: driving is a hellish task, what with the damage to the environment, the expense, and …
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Put the Fun Between Your Legs
by Joe Biel Author
Do you love bicycling so much that you want to wear it on a t-shirt? Let's celebrate fun and raciness. …
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Evolution Racer T-shirt
by Joe Biel Author
Where did the bicyclist come from? Only Darwin would know. And he'd probably ride up on his own bike. After all it …
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$25 Superpack: Taking Back Pink
by Joe Biel Author, Elly Blue Author, Box Brown Author, Nicole Georges Author and Super Pack! Author
Our creative director (ahem, Joe) loves the color pink—the brighter the better, though he also has an affinity …
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$25 Superpack: Pissed with a Purpose
by Joe Biel Author, Erica Dawn Lyle Author, Joshua Ploeg Author, Super Pack! Author and Robert Wildwood Author
Are you young and enraged? Um, yep, we get that. You have every reason to be mad. But before you run off and join the …
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