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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

$20 Superpack: All About Zines—What, How, & Why!
by Joe Biel Author, Bill Brent Author, Stephen Duncombe Author and Super Pack! Author
Combining the "How" (Make a Zine), the "What" (Zine Yearbook #9), and the "Why" (Notes …
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Pin #127: Chainring 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 …
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Every Car A Murder, Every Bicycle a Love Affair t-shirt
by Joe Biel Author
Don't blame the driver. Blame the engineer. Blame the institution. Blame the vehicle. Innumerable studies about …
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Old School T-Shirt
by Joe Biel Author
Remember the old days of carelessly riding your penny farthing around the playground after school and then taking it …
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Evolution Cargo T-shirt
by Joe Biel Author
Throughout science there has been minor discrepancies in the way that different species evolve. Some become sleek …
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Sweetheart Chainring T-shirt
by Joe Biel Author
The "Sweetheart" chainring is a classic chainring set that inspired the design for the Chainring Heart logo. …
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Share the Road
by Joe Biel Author and Matt Gauck Author
Personally, I'm not a communist and don't believe that the public should continue to subsidize automobiles on …
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One Less Truck t-shirt
by Joe Biel Author
What's that? You have to take the kids to school, the dog to the park, and pickup the groceries on the way home? …
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Xerography Debt #31
by Joe Biel Author, Davida Breier Author and Al Burian Author
Davida Gypsy Breier's review zine, Xerography Debt might be best summarized as an obsession for all …
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Cycling Shorts
by Joe Biel Author
What is bicycle culture? It’s what you make of it. Anything can happen: Activists educate the policymakers. …
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Bipedal, By Pedal! #3: A history of bicycle activism in Portland, OR
by Joe Biel Author
In this, the third issue of Joe Biel's award-winning, ongoing look at the Critical Mass movement, we are given a …
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Xerography Debt #30
by Joe Biel Author, Davida Breier Author and Al Burian Author
Davida Gypsy Breier's review zine, Xerography Debt, is a labor of love and obsession. This 30th …
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Aftermass poster
by Joe Biel Author and Matt Gauck Author
Let's stripe those car lanes so by 2050, when cars are not so dominant in our culture, the minority who operate …
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The 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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Pin #185: Tandem Riders
by Joe Biel Author
Riding a bike in tandem is a metaphor for so many things, and the literal reality is pretty great too. Show your …
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Pin #183: Live Free or Drive
by Joe Biel Author
Let these historical cyclists riding the streetcar tell you how they feel! And then tell someone else with …
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Pin #176: Ask me about freeway removal
by Joe Biel Author
Freeways are handy for going long distances, but in cities they are too often used to destroy and divide some …
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Pin #177: Save $8,000 and smile more
by Joe Biel Author
Cars cost the average driver $8000 a year. Your smile is worth a million. This handmade 1" round pinback button? …
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Pin #173: Free Parking
by Joe Biel Author
Grab your U-lock and get out there! No need to parallel park on a bike, you're a forward-thinking cycler! Show it …
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Patch #207: Free Parking
by Joe Biel Author
Wait a minute? It's free ANY time? I may complain about getting rained on from time to time (all winter) but …
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Patch #213: Save $8,000 and smile more
by Joe Biel Author
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 #199: There's A Special Place In Hell For Bike Thieves
by Joe Biel Author
Is it wrong to imply a sense of karma here?
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If It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk: D. un I. t Y.
by Eric Ayotte Author, Joe Biel Author and Jeremy Hogan Author
Over the last fifteen years, Plan-it X Records helped foster a huge cultural revolution, uniting geographically divided …
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Sticker #273: There's A Special Place In Hell For Bike Thieves
by Joe Biel Author
We all know it's true.
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Pin #126: Resist 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 …
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The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #5: Sickness and Health
by Joe Biel Author
This new issue details over fifteen years of Joe Biel's improving and declining physical health as he battles …
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Patch #214: Ask Me About Freeway Removal
by Joe Biel Author
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
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 …
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