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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, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, PBS, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. Biel 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. 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, Ore. Find out more at joebiel.net
Sticker #300Evolution Comfort
by Joe Biel Author
For the folks who have upgraded from their racing bike, to a comfy-cruiser-commuter bike. Show off your evolutionary…
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Sticker #075Celebrate Efficiency over the Automobile
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Bikes are more energy efficient than cars. In other news, the sky is blue.(Sturdy vinyl sticker with white print on a…
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Sticker #288Save $8,000 and smile more
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If you ride a bike instead of driving a car you'll save an average of $8,000 per year! Some studies report an…
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Sticker #304Every Car a Murder, Every Bicycle a Love Affair (men)
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This one's for you, gentlemen. (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black print on a white background. Reads: "Every…
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Sticker #149b: Put the Fun Between Your Legs (long)
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Get your mind out of the gutter! Where else would you put your bike?(Sturdy vinyl sticker with black or pink print on a…
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Sticker #303Saves Money, Creates Health
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The car: Consumes Money, Destroys Health. The bicycle: Creates Health, Saves Money. Economics trumps car culture…
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$20 Superpack: Joe's Faves
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They say it's impossible to pick favorite children. But after stewing for a few hours on our long history of titles,…
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$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 #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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Every Car A Murder, Every Bicycle a Love Affair t-shirt
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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
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Remember the old days of carelessly riding your penny farthing around the playground after school and then taking it out…
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Evolution Cargo T-shirt
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Throughout science there has been minor discrepancies in the way that different species evolve. Some become sleek racers…
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Sweetheart Chainring T-shirt
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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
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What's that? You have to take the kids to school, the dog to the park, and pickup the groceries on the way home? You…
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Xerography Debt #31
by Joe Biel Author, Davida G. 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
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What is bicycle culture? It’s what you make of it. Anything can happen: Activists educate the policymakers.…
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Xerography Debt #30
by Joe Biel Author, Davida G. 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 them…
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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 #185Tandem Riders
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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 #183Live Free or Drive
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Let these historical cyclists riding the streetcar tell you how they feel! And then tell someone else with…
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Pin #176Ask me about freeway removal
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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 #177Save $8,000 and smile more
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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 #173Free Parking
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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 #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 #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.
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 #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…
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Pin #126Resist Gossip
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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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