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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

The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #5: Sickness and Health
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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
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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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The Zine Yearbook
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The Zine Yearbook #9 contains a representative collection of reprints from zines published in 2007 …
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Sticker #262: Fuck The Corporate Fashion Designers
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Why should an elite few corporate-backed designers decide what we wear, what looks good, what makes you hot or not? You …
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You Can Work Any Hundred Hours a Week (In Your Underwear)!!: The Story of Microcosm Publishing
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The history of the first ten years of Microcosm Publishing, told in graphic detail! For the first time ever, read about …
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$100 & a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest
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A cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell zines are, why people make zines, the origin of …
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Pin #141: Orwell Was Right
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Is it 1984 or am I going crazy from being watched by the government? Oh George, if only we had heeded your warning …
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Sticker #245: Gentrification in Progress
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Is your neighborhood being over-developed by yuppie shits for massive profit? Maybe this satirical sticker can help you …
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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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Cantankerous Titles & Obscure Ephemera
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"Joe Biel's collection of "talkies" perfectly embodies the D.I.Y. doc mantra of "just get out …
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Sticker #240: I don't need a war to power my bicycle
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Fuel isn't a good enough motivation for massacre.
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Pin #149: Sweetheart Chainring
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A real, classic chainring set from approximately the 1950s. Love your bike means something real here 1" round …
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Sticker #239: Car Free
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Put a "Free Car" sign on your mechanical monster and grab a bike and this cool sticker!
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Sticker #236: Burn Carbohydrates, Not Hydrocarbons
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Who would have thought a weatherproof sticker would look so good in the rain?
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The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #3
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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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Patch #110: Throw 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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Sticker #208: Violence is to a dictatorship what propaganda is to a democracy
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Something to ponder.
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Pin #147: Evolution
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Don't just spin your wheels, evolve! This 1" round pinback button is perfect if you like cycling or …
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Pin #117: Question Authority
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There's no doubt what the message is: Question authority! Remember that all power is arbitrary with …
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Sticker #101: Gentrification is
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.. the destruction of a community when it is referred to as "development". It is characterized by adding …
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Sticker #050: Standardized Healthcare
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Republicans will be quick to tell you that the national debt is a result of welfare mothers leeching off of the system. …
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Sticker #067: Something Smells Like Gentrification
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Gentrification is the process of turning old, decaying neighborhoods (normally housing minorities) into new, exciting …
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Sticker #012: If We Aren't Supposed to Eat Humans
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From the mouths of stickers, come very logical questions.
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