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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.
Pin #109Punk Rock Changed My Life
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Add to CartSticker #025Racism Is a Fear of Other Cultures
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Understand the world around you. (Sturdy vinyl sticker with white print on a black background, or black print on a white…
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Plan out your publishing empire, from mission to budgets, with this workbook companion to Joe Biel's A People's Guide to…
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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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What is bicycle culture? It’s what you make of it. Anything can happen: Activists educate the policymakers.…
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Okay. We know it is fun and a little addictive. But it also hurts feelings, people's confidence, and reputations. It's…
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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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Add to CartPin #020Real Men Don't Use Violence
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Real men don't use violence. Remind your friends with this 1" round pinback button handmade in the USA.
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Add to CartSticker #008Don't Support Wars Fought Over Economic Interests
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Don't just spin your wheels, evolve! This 1" round pinback button is perfect if you like cycling or believe in, you…
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Add to CartYou 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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Read, reflect, act thoughtfully, repeat. Throw some writing and publishing your own zines into the mix and you've got a…
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Add to CartSticker #270No One Is Free When Others Are Oppressed
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In a society based on the oppression of people, nobody can ever be truly free. We are all trapped in a tricky web of…
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Sticker #072When Bicycle Wheels Turn
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Do you want to start a business? Or does your existing business feel stuck? Either way, this no-fluff workbook will walk…
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Oh the hypocrisy of the theological underpinnings of the military industrial complex. We've read the New Testament and…
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Add to CartSticker #097My Only Car Is a Bicycle
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For when you're happily carfree and don't have a car to put a "my other car is" sticker on. (Sturdy vinyl sticker with…
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Ride a bike. Cycling is good for everyone, including the environment. Remind yourself and others with this 1" round…
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Add to CartPin #149Sweetheart Chainring
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A real, classic chainring set from approximately the 1950s. Love your bike means something real here 1" round pinback…
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Add to CartDo Not Pet: A Service Dog's Graphic Tail
by Joe Biel Author with Caroline Spark PhD
Throughout human history, dogs have performed service tasks for us. Some of the earliest documented cases occurred…
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Even if you didn't grow up in the 90s, tapping your heart out on an old typewriter while cutting and pasting the lines…
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Add to CartHow to Thrive / Starve & How to Make a Decision postcard
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Recently, an artist friend celebrated a modicum of success after five years of hard work. Many people cheered and…
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Add to CartSticker #236Burn Carbohydrates, Not Hydrocarbons
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Who would have thought a weatherproof sticker would look so good in the rain? Burn carbohydrates, not hydrocarbons -…
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Add to CartCat Party!: Cats We've Known in Words and Pictures
by Katie Haegele Editor, Dame Darcy Contributor, Joe Biel Contributor, Joe Carlough Contributor, Steven Svymbersky Contributor, 8 more
The cats in our lives are always close to our hearts, whether they're napping in a sunbeam, demanding pets and treats,…
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View Details Quick ShopThe CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #10: What Happened to the Black Panther Party?
by Joseph E. Green Author and Joe Biel Series Editor
You may have heard of the Black Panther Party, but what do we really know? Here's introduction to the time shit hit…
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Cooperative businesses have no hierarchy! Support your local worker-led efforts, be they co-op grocery stores,…
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View Details Quick ShopIf It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk: D. un I. t Y.
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Over the last fifteen years, Plan-it X Records helped foster a huge cultural revolution, uniting geographically divided…
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