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Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock to sell millions of books. Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing, Publishers Weekly's #1 fastest-growing publisher of 2022 and #3 in 2023/2024, and WorkingLit, the software responsible for Microcosm's aforementioned success—now available for other publishers. Biel has been featured in Time, Esquire, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll, as well as NPR and PBS. Biel is the author of A People's Guide to Publishing, Autism Relationships Handbook, Unfuck Your Business, Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers, and dozens 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 series. Biel lives in Portland, OR.


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 the…
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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? You…
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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. It was on…
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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
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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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 issue, Xerography…
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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
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 #183Live 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 this 1"…
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Pin #177Save $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 #173Free 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 off…
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Pin #176Ask 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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Patch #213Save $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 #199There's A Special Place In Hell For Bike Thieves
by Joe Biel Author
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
by Joe Biel Author
Car thieves? We couldn't care less about 'em. But when it comes to bike thieves, we believe that there's a special place…
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Pin #126Resist 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 with…
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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 doctors,…
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Patch #214Ask 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 #9
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 and also a pulse…
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Sticker #262Fuck The Corporate Fashion Designers! Make your own clothes!
by Joe Biel Author
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
by Joe Biel Author
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
by Joe Biel Author, Nickey Robo Author and Rev Phil Sano Author
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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Big Patch #102Fix Shit Up
by Joe Biel Author
Another broken door or a series of unfortunate relationships? Well then, there’s nothing that a few pounds of a hammer…
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Pin #141Orwell Was Right
by Joe Biel Author
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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The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #2: Brutal Honest Tea
by Joe Biel Author
Joe Biel explains four years of his life in "Brutal Honest Tea," about honest communication, the opportunity costs of…
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The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #3: Getting a Vasectomy
by Joe Biel Author
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
by Joe Biel Author
"Joe Biel's collection of "talkies" perfectly embodies the D.I.Y. doc mantra of "just get out there and shoot it."…
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Sticker #240I Don't Need a War to Power My Bicycle
by Joe Biel Author
Whether they own up to it or not, the vast majority of the wars currently being fought by the US military are for oil.…
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