Quaranzine Fest
We're excited to have participated in 2020's Quaranzine Fest! Our offerings were selected to help you be happy, healthy, entertained, and thinking critically during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown... but they still do those things at other times, too.
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
by Danny Caine Author
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses…
$14.95
View Details Quick ShopStressed & Overwhelmed: Good Habits for the Exhausted Overachiever
by Elly Blue Author
If you're the sort of person who takes on every project and responsibility until suddenly it's one thing too many and…
$4.95
Add to Cartby Microcosm employee Elly Blue, this is a great primer for dealing with the overwhelming feelings of the current situation.
Unfuck Your Grief: Using Science to Heal Yourself and Support Others
by Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
When we lose someone or something close to us—a loved person or animal, a relationship, our health, our dream, our…
$14.95
View Details Quick ShopAn honest look at grief in all its forms and how to cope with it and help others.
Sex Without Roles: Transcending Gender
by Eli Sachse Author
How much of your sex life is informed by gender norms that you may not even be conscious of? Eli Sachse's zine is all…
$6.95 2 comments
View Details Quick ShopAn updated edition from an author in one of the hardest-hit areas of the country.
Essential Oils to Destroy the Patriarchy: Remedies Formulated for Modern Women (& 1000-Year-Old Witches)
by Eryn Nicole O'Neal Author
Are you paid less than your male colleagues for the same work? Do you work all day for the man and then come home and…
$4.95
View Details Quick ShopA Beginner's Guide to Treewatching
by Skye Henterly Author
This is your guide to the fast-paced, energetic sport of treewatching! Just kidding. Watching trees is a relaxing way to…
$4.95
View Details Quick ShopBecause you don't have to stay 6 feet away from a tree and you can tree watch from the safety of your own home!
Unfuck Your Writing: Write Better, Reach Readers, & Share Your Inner World
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
Want to be a writer, but the words won't come? Do you have a lot to say but don't know how to write it so people will…
$12.95
View Details Quick ShopSelf-Guide: Axioms for a Personal Journey
by Michelle Zellers Author
Containing 10 guiding principles that the author created to live a more fulfilling life, these are not your cliched…
$4.95
Add to CartAdvice from Hybrid Beings
by Ariel Gore Author
Life can be pretty tough sometimes, even for someone as great as you! This art zine by Ariel Gore takes rare pieces of…
$6.00
View Details Quick ShopPunks Around #1: Nizhny Life
by Alexander Herbert Author
Each issue of “Punks Around” features a story written by a contributor drawing from their experience in another…
$3.00
Add to CartSurviving: Getting Through the Shit Life Throws at You
by Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
This is a zine for getting through it when life is piling it higher and deeper, the political and personal and social…
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Mettanoia #1: Mental Health & Self-Care Strategies
by Shea Pederson Author
A lovingly hand-written and illustrated zine in the classic perzine style containing personal stories, thoughts about…
$4.95
Add to CartThe first in a series of zines focused on mental health and how to cope.
Shit Talk: What Happens After It Goes Down the Drain
by Nick Kawa Author
Poop! It's not something we like to talk about, much less think about, and once we've flushed it's out of sight and out…
$4.95
View Details Quick ShopUnfuck Your Parenting #1: Doing our Best to Raise Intersectional Feminist, Empathic, Engaged, and Generally Non-Shitty Kids
by Dr. Faith G. Harper Author and Bonnie Scott Author
Got kids in your life? This zine is full of helpful wisdom about raising them to be socially aware, respectful of…
$6.99
View Details Quick ShopA series of zines from Dr. Faith and Bonnie Scott on how to raise non-shitty kids.
Make a Zine!: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution
by Joe Biel Author with Bill Brent
Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm’s…
$12.95 20 comments
View Details Quick ShopDid you know you too can make zines? Learn how to do it with nothing more than some paper and a writing instrument.
How to Give a Blow Job
by Lee Holloway Author
“The more you are willing to do, the more he will do in return.” That about sums it up. We are all selfish in…
$4.95
View Details Quick ShopHow to Give a Woman an Ohhh! (in 3 steps)
by Lee Holloway Author
Women-pleasers, anticipation is the key to seduction. And this little guide demonstrates the proper techniques to…
$4.95
Add to CartHoning Your Craft: Developing Your Writing Skills on a Budget
by Lydia Rogue Author
Do you dream of being a writer, but despair of finding the resources to make it happen? Writing for your passion, or…
$6.95
Add to CartDream Whip #11
by Bill Brown Author
It's hard to describe the short, intricate glimpses of life Bill shares from his travels around the world. They're…
$4.95
Add to CartRocket Queen #1
by Janet Author
Possibly one of the best, most insightful zines ever written, Rocket Queen is author Janet's tale of working as a dancer…
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Guerrilla Graywater Girls Guide to Water
by Various Author
A brief history of rivers, dams, water power, water infrastructure, good house/bad house, breaking the water cycle,…
$6.95 3 comments
View Details Quick ShopFat Is Beautiful
by Crystal Hartman Author
Thoughts, articles, and reprints about America's fat-phobic, sizism, and pointing us toward fat acceptance. A beautiful…
$5.95 5 comments
View Details Quick ShopUnfuck Your Sleep: The #1 Non-Negotiable Necessity For Emotional and Physical Health
by Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
Sleep is so, so, so important! We spend a third of our lives doing it... well, ideally we do. In reality, we get far…
$5.95
View Details Quick ShopIf you do nothing else during the quarantine, ensure that you're protecting your sleep.
How to Love Me: Better Relationships Through Self Knowledge
by School of Life Design Series Editor, Caitlin V. Neal Author, Kelly Cree Author and Jessica Mullen Author
Most people know the feeling of longing for love or approval from another. We think, "If only this person praised or…
$5.95
Add to CartA zine for directed self-reflection.
CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #9: Intro to the Jonestown Massacre Conspiracies 1978
by Joseph E. Green Author
“Don’t drink the Kool-Aid!” Most people have heard the phrase, but like so many famous phrases, its origin is a…
$4.95
Add to CartAn Urban Field Guide to the Plants in Your Path
by Maggie Herskovits Author
This little field guide presents 15 plants that can be found growing throughout your urban home. Detailed illustrations…
$4.95
View Details Quick ShopUnfuck Your Consent: A History and How-to for Claiming Your Sexual Autonomy, Personal Boundaries, and Political Freedoms
by Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
What does consent mean? Where does this idea come from, and why is it being talked about in a different way now than it…
$4.95
View Details Quick ShopFrom Chaos to Creativity Workbook: Building a Productivity System for Artists and Writers
by Jessie L. Kwak Author
Kick procrastination to the curb and start designing your productivity system today! This zine gives you space to start…
$4.95
View Details Quick ShopKitchen Witch: Natural Remedies and Crafts for Home, Health, and Beauty
by Katie Haegele Author and Nadine Schneider Author
Cast a spell to turn your kitchen into a healthy haven. Learn about traditional healing methods, gain practical DIY…
$19.95
View Details Quick ShopHow to Boycott: Make Your Voice Heard, Understand History, & Change the World
by Joe Biel Author
From Chick-Fil-A to the Boston Tea Party, Nike to Women's Suffrage in the U.S., United Farm Workers to the Woolworth's…
$6.99
Add to CartWith more and more companies making infuriating moves with regards to their labor force, the question becomes how do we boycott them effectively in order to force them to change their policies? Learn to boycott, change the world.
Jealousy: How It Hurts, How to Overcome It (Not Another Pained Personal Narrative)
by Nathan Lee Thomas Author
Jealousy has a toxic, corrosive effect on the human soul. It can be subtle or crash down upon you in waves and pick you…
$4.95
View Details Quick ShopFire & Ice: Warm, Cool & Spicy Vegan Recipes from Hot & Soul
by Joshua Ploeg Author
Traveling chef Joshua Ploeg (Plague) of Behead the Prophet, No Lord Shall Live/Mukilteo Fairies/Ravenna's Secret Cafe…
$4.00 2 comments
View Details Quick ShopWhy Doesn't She Just Leave: Responding Appropriately To Abusive Relationships
by Brianna Lea Pruett Author
Ever watched a friend struggle in an abusive relationship and felt helpless watching it happen? Ever wondered what to…
$4.95 1 comment
Add to CartWith folks locked inside with one another, it's inevitable that we will see domestic violence rates rise. Know what this means and how you can help people out without putting them more at risk.
Don't Cry Wolfman Chicago
by Nate Beaty Author
Diary comix ftw! Nate Beaty (Brainfag Forever) shares 120 pages of comics pages outlining scenes from his daily life…
$10.00
Add to CartScam: The First Four Issues
by Erica Dawn Lyle Author
The classic zine Scam was equal parts an introductory guide on how to get things for free and punk memoir. Youths…
$16.00 12 comments
View Details Quick ShopThe 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…
$12.00 9 comments
View Details Quick ShopRevolution Between the Lines Typewriter
by Joe Biel Illustrator
What you write matters. What you read matters. Understanding the subtext and context of what you write and read matters…
$15.00
Add to CartGrow: How to Take Your Do It Yourself Project and Passion to the Next Level and Quit Your Job
by Eleanor C. Whitney Author
Grow: How to Take Your DIY Project and Passion to the Next Level and Quit Your Job is a practical field guide for…
$11.95 4 comments
View Details Quick ShopSoon to be known as Quit Your Day Job, this book is designed to help you turn a hobby or passion project into a money-making venture.
Invincible Summer: An Anthology
by Nicole Georges Author
Comics memoirist Nicole J. Georges captures her adventures and thoughts in unique, heartfelt illustrations & stories.…
$12.00 17 comments
View Details Quick ShopOne of two bound collections of zines about mothering, farming and so much more. Delightful slice of life journal entries.
Chainbreaker Bike Book: An Illustrated Manual of Radical Bicycle Maintenance, Culture, & History
by Ethan Clark Author and Shelley Lynn Jackson Author
An updated and expanded edition of our hand-illustrated and accessible introduction to the world of bike repair! Through…
$17.95 27 comments
View Details Quick ShopNow is a great time to learn how to do your own bicycle maintenance. Originally printed as a zine series, this is the third paperback edition of the classic Chainbreaker Bike Book.
Making Stuff and Doing Things: DIY Guides to Just About Everything
by Kyle Bravo Editor
When you’re young, broke, and in search of a life of adventure, Making Stuff and Doing Things is the most useful book…
$16.95 37 comments
View Details Quick ShopA paperback book on how to do a large variety of DIY projects. A fantastic way to pass the time with things you already have around the house.
How and Why: A Do-It-Yourself Guide
by Matte Resist Author
“I dream of a better world,” writes zinester and How and Why author Matte Resist in the intro to his new book. He…
$14.00 4 comments
View Details Quick ShopHow to home school, how to build an instrument out of what you have around your house and so much more. Another DIY guide for keeping something resembling a schedule and normalcy during this time.
We'll Never Have Paris: Greatist Hits
by Andria Alefhi Editor and Martha Grover Contributor
This collection of short stories brings together the best of the twice-yearly zine We’ll Never Have Paris and…
$7.95
View Details Quick Shop$50 Superpack: Quaranzines
by Super Pack! Author
In honor of #quaranzinefest 2020, the all-online zine fest, here's a selection of pamphlet-shaped amaze-bombs to get you…
$71.75 $50.00
One of our bestselling zines ever. Even more topical now that Amazon is putting its workers at risk and begging for donations for their delivery drivers rather than paying them adequately.