Microcosm's First Decade
Behold all the still-in-print books we published (or first published) in our first decade as a publisher, from 1996 to 2006. Some of these (usually the more brightly-colored ones!) are more recent editions, but they still capture the DIY spirit of our beginnings.
Making Stuff and Doing Things: DIY Guides to Just About Everything
When you’re young, broke, and in search of a life of adventure, Making Stuff and Doing Things is the most useful book…
Make a Zine!: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution
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…
$100 & a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest
A cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell zines are, why people make zines, the origin of…
Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
Can zines save the world? Maybe, says Stephen Duncombe in the updated fourth edition of his groundbreaking study of…
Zinester's Guide to Portland: A Low/No Budget Guide to the Rose City
Billed as a "low/no budget guide to visiting and living in Portland, Oregon, the Zinester's Guide to Portland breaks…
Basic Fermentation: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Cultural Manipulation
Fermented foods are great for your health, and this book is a great resource for learning to use the microbes around…
Please Don't Feed the Bears: A Heavy Metal Vegan Cookbook
Learn to cook a range of brutally tasty yet simple plant-based dishes, accompanied by heavy metal and punk lyrics,…
Hot Damn & Hell Yeah: Recipes for Hungry Banditos
Hot Damn and Hell Yeah shows regular people how to use familiar, easy-to-find ingredients to create tasty, spicy vegan…
The Dirty South: Southern Vegan Eats
An illustrated collection of scrumptious southern recipes that will tickle your craw, vegan-style with taste…
On Subbing: The First Four Years
On Subbing is a quiet classic. It's impossible to put down, or forget, Dave Roche's vivid, self-deprecating tales of…
Indestructible: Growing Up Queer, Cuban, and Punk in Miami
In her Miami high school Cristy Road valiantly tried to figure out and defend her queer gender identity, Cuban cultural…
Greenzine #14
Once a true fanzine devoted to Green Day, this zine has now evolved into literary prose devoted to the strengths of our…
The Flow Chronicles
The Flow Chronicles is the confused, horny, philosophical nomadic Hermitt against the world. A raw, druggy, sexed-up…
The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting: Dark Deeds & Derring-Do from 1950 to Today
These five case studies offer a chilling glimpse into the negligence, greed, murder, and at times comical…
Dream Whip #14
Bill Brown's Dream Whip zine is a raw little chunk of America, full of darkened crop-fields and desert moonlight and…
Xtra Tuf: The Strike Issue
Meet Moe Bowstern: writer, fisherwoman, and tough cookie. Moe is a woman working in the male-dominated commercial…
Dwelling Portably: 1980-1989
Dwelling Portably has been crammed full of information about living without a permanent residence for nearly 30 years!…
My Life in a Jugular Vein: Three More Years of Snake Pit Comics 2004-2006
In a sense, despite turning the big 3-0, Ben Snakepit captures the same spirit in the comics he draws, summarizing each…
Applicant
“One night while rooting through the recycling bin for magazines, I found all the confidential Ph.D. applicant files…
The Best of Intentions: The Avow Anthology
Now in its second edition, The Best of Intentions is a big ol' whopping collection of material from the long-running…
I Hate This Part of Texas #5
This issue contains things that will make you laugh, smile, and cry - visiting friends in the hospital, the early…
You Can Work Any Hundred Hours a Week (In Your Underwear)!!: The Story of Microcosm Publishing
The history of the first ten years of Microcosm Publishing, told in graphic detail! For the first time ever, read about…
The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #2: Brutal Honest Tea
Joe Biel explains four years of his life in "Brutal Honest Tea," about honest communication, the opportunity costs of…
The Perfect Mix Tape Segue #3: Getting a Vasectomy
Joe Biel strives to find logic, purpose, and meaning in his existence once again. This issue is about friends having…
Perfect Mix Tape Segue #4: Going On Tour
Three years after the fact Joe busts out a zine tour based zine about "Cocoon: The Road Trip" from 2004. A collection of…