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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. Biel has been featured in Time Magazine, Publishers Weekly, 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 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. 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.


Patch #078Put the Fun Between Your Legs (shirt style)
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It's true! The bicycle is so much fun! Since when have you really been able to enjoy the sights around you when…
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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…
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Patch #088Read Zines, Change the World
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Even if you didn't grow up in the 90s, tapping your heart out on an old typewriter while cutting and pasting the…
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Patch #092Resist Gossip
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Okay. We know it is fun and a little addictive. But it also hurts feelings, people's confidence, and reputations.…
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Patch #102Fix Shit Up
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Are you tired of fucking shit up? Don’t worry, we all make mistakes but they are all fixable! Why not start…
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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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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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Patch #194Punk Rock Saved My Life
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Did punk rock help get you through the hardest parts of your life? Be proud of that, it saved my life too.…
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Patch #197Put The Fun Between Your Legs (long)
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Common like seriously, we're talking about bicycling. Get your mind out of the gutter and out into the streets.…
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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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Patch #207Free Parking
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Wait a minute? You’re telling me that it's free ANY time? I may complain about getting rained on from time to…
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Patch #213Save $8,000 and smile more
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Aside from losing 4,000 or so pounds on your driveway and freeing up the burden of private property imposed on the…
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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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Patch #230Live Free or Drive
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New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" state sits in a nice complement to Oregon, the unofficial…
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Patch #231One Less/Fewer Truck
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Gotta get the kids to school, collect groceries back from the store, and lumber to the job site? Look no more! Get your…
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Patch #234Health and Money
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You know, we all keep looking for more ways to improve our health and save money. But the most basic and obvious steps…
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Patch #235Disability Rights: Power to the People
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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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Patch #236Library Gearz
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Ever notice how social change happens? 1) People get educated... say, at the library or through the little phones…
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Patch #237Evolution Gal
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Let's be honest. Bicycling makes your life better, the world better, and let's you enjoy the breeze on your…
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Patch #238Feminist Chainring Fist
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Sometimes it's hard to sum up the totality of who you are in a single symbol. Peace signs, anarchy symbols,…
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Patch #241My Feminism Helps You Too
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So often we are told that feminism means that someone else is losing something or that we are another crazy chick on the…
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Patch #242Black Lives Matter
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For all that our media tries to make other countries scary--"Dangerous Mexico!" "Scary Iran!"…
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Patch #243Legalize Blackness
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How hypocritical that our media tries to make other countries seem scary. And yet, forty percent of Americans don't…
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Patch #244Autistic Lives Matter
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From day-to-day difficulties in socializing, inflexible routines, and sensitivity to noises to the fact that a…
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A People's Guide to Business: Nine Rules for Success
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Start and grow your successful business your wayUnlike any other small business guide out there, A People's…
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A People's Guide to Publishing Workbook
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Plan out your publishing empire, from mission to budgets, with this workbook companion to Joe Biel's A People's…
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People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business From the Ground Up
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So, you want to publish books. Drawing on 24 years of experience operating an independent publishing company,…
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The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #2: Brutal Honest Tea
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Joe Biel explains four years of his life in "Brutal Honest Tea," about honest communication, the opportunity…
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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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Perfect Mix Tape Segue #4: Going On Tour
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Three years after the fact Joe busts out a zine tour based zine about "Cocoon: The Road Trip" from 2004. A…
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