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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 and #3 in 2023. Biel has been featured in Time Magazine, Esquire, 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 with Autism, 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 film series. Biel lives in Portland, OR. Find out more at joebiel.net.

Sticker #102: I Heart My Bike

Sticker #102I Heart My Bike

by Joe Biel Author

If you love your bike, perhaps you need a sticker to make sure everyone else knows. Plus, you can hit two birds with one…

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Sticker #105: Bombing for Peace is Like Fucking for Virginity

Sticker #105Bombing for Peace is Like Fucking for Virginity

by Joe Biel Author

How could anybody ever be fooled into believing that you could save anybody with bombs? This one makes the absurdity of…

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Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Autism

Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Autism

by Joe Biel Author, Joyce Brabner Foreword and Sander Hicks Foreword

The history of Microcosm Publishing, from its origins as a record label and zine distro in Joe Biel's bedroom closet in…

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Patch #078: Put the Fun Between Your Legs (shirt style)

Patch #078Put the Fun Between Your Legs (shirt style)

by Joe Biel Author

It's true! The bicycle is so much fun! Since when have you really been able to enjoy the sights around you when in a…

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Alive with Vigor: Surviving Your Adventurous Lifestyle

Alive with Vigor: Surviving Your Adventurous Lifestyle

by Robert Wildwood Editor, Buck Angel Contributor, Joe Biel Contributor, Natalye Childress Contributor, Cheyenne Winters Contributor, 3 more

Alive With Vigor! compiles stories of surviving—and thriving—from a wide spectrum of contributors. Deeply personal…

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Pin #046: Pro Choice

Pin #046Pro Choice

by Joe Biel Author

Because abortions should be safe, legal, available, and shame-free. Smash the stigma with this 1" round pinback button…

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Patch #058: Chainring Heart

Patch #058Chainring Heart

by Joe Biel Author, Aaron Renier Author and alex wrekk Author

A canvas patch bearing the ever-popular Microcosm logo! Our bicycle chainring heart speaks the truth. Originally…

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Sticker #098: Fascism

Sticker #098Fascism

by Joe Biel Author

This sturdy vinyl sticker defines fascism: "Concentrated private control of wealth, control of information, massive…

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Sticker #088: In 1492 Indigenous people discovered Christopher Columbus lost at sea

Sticker #088In 1492 Indigenous people discovered Christopher Columbus lost at sea

by Joe Biel Author

Columbus, you murderous fool.  (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black print on a white background. Reads: "In 1492 indigenous…

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Pin #018: Question Everything

Pin #018Question Everything

by Joe Biel Author

Ignorance is merely complacency. Take nothing at face value. Get curious! Everything should stand up to questioning,…

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Pin #145: Put The Fun Between Your Legs

Pin #145Put The Fun Between Your Legs

by Joe Biel Author

Do you love bicycling so much that you want to wear it on a 1" round pinback button? Let's celebrate fun and raciness.…

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Pin #127: Chainring Heart

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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Sticker #146: Who Would Jesus Bomb?

Sticker #146Who Would Jesus Bomb?

by Joe Biel Author

 WWJB doesn't quite roll of the tongue like WWJD. 

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The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #3: The PATRIOT Act

The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #3: The PATRIOT Act

by Gena Mason Author, Joe Biel Series Editor and Keith Rosson Illustrator

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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Beyond The Music: How Punks are Saving the World with DIY Ethics, Skills, & Values

Beyond The Music: How Punks are Saving the World with DIY Ethics, Skills, & Values

by Joe Biel Editor

Punk is notorious for its loud music, aggressive attitude, and safety-pinned style. Less well known is the radical value…

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Sticker #014: Revolution Begins with an Individual

Sticker #014Revolution Begins with an Individual

by Joe Biel Author

 And another, and another, and another, and another, and..... (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black print on a white…

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Sticker #003: Jesus Didn't Teach Hating Gay People

Sticker #003Jesus Didn't Teach Hating Gay People

by Joe Biel Author

 Love makes the world turn, people.  (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black print on a white background. Reads: "Jesus…

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The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #6: The Life of Lee Harvey Oswald

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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Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior

Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior

by Joe Biel Author, Elly Blue Author and Meggyn Pomerleau Illustrator

You've heard of mansplaining, but what about manstitutions? From manologues to manversations, mantrums to manger, the…

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The Autism Handbook: Everything You Wanted to Know About Life on the Spectrum

The Autism Handbook: Everything You Wanted to Know About Life on the Spectrum

by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author

What's it like to be autistic? As many as one in forty-five people live that reality every day, but our culture remains…

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Patch #102: Fix Shit Up

Patch #102Fix Shit Up

by Joe Biel Author

Are you tired of fucking shit up? Don’t worry, we all make mistakes but they are all fixable! Why not start with your…

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Neurodivergent Pride #2: A User Guide to Treating People Like People

Neurodivergent Pride #2: A User Guide to Treating People Like People

by Temple Grandin, Ph.D Contributor, Joe Biel Editor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Gee23 Contributor, Kate McNulty Contributor, 4 more

Neurodiversity occupies a similar place in the public consciousness as gay rights did in the 1970s: most people on the…

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Sticker #121: One More Bike

Sticker #121One More Bike

by Joe Biel Author

"Slow and steady wins the race" may be a proverb, but we've got something the tortoise never had: wheels.  (Sturdy…

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Bicycle Culture Rising #1: Participatory & Grassroots Bicycle Movements

Bicycle Culture Rising #1: Participatory & Grassroots Bicycle Movements

by Joe Biel Author

A social history and tactics lesson about the participatory and grassroots bicycle movements and their impact and…

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Sticker #240: I Don't Need a War to Power My Bicycle

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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Sticker #091: Bike Punx

Sticker #091Bike Punx

by Joe Biel Author

How do you make bikes better? Add some punk. How do you make punk better? Add bikes.  (Sturdy vinyl sticker with white…

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Pin #126: Resist Gossip

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 Zine Yearbook #9

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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big patch #078: Put the Fun Between Your Legs

big patch #078Put the Fun Between Your Legs

by Joe Biel Author

What's more fun than riding a bike? Perhaps riding two bikes on a date? Scratch that, let’s bring a whole club of…

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