Cozy Portland
We're stoked about Joe and Elly's new zine, Cozy Portland: A Southeast Neighborhood Vibes Guide to Richmond and Sunnyside, so we're spreading the PDX love with this collection of rad reads paying tribute to the city Microcosm HQ is proud to call home.
Cozy Portland: A Southeast Neighborhood Vibes Guide to Richmond and Sunnyside
Your friendly local non-guidebook guide to the cultural microclimates of PDX. Like taking a leisurely stroll with a few…
Trees of the Pacific Northwest
Beautiful watercolor illustrations meet reflective, informative commentary on some of the Pacific Northwest's oldest and…
The Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers: The Roots of Free Healthcare, Free Breakfast, and Neighborhood Control in Oregon
In the 1960s through 1980s, the Black Panther Party rose up throughout the United States, envisioning a world…
Portland Queer: Stories of LGBTQ+ Life in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon, is a queer city in the queerest state in the US. It's also a place where, like anywhere in this…
Sticker #634Keep Portland Queer
Whether it's Portland, Oregon, or Portland, Maine, we're keeping it queer. Slap this vinyl sticker on your laptop, a…
Portland Stair Walks: Explore Portland, Oregon's Public Stairways
Why is it so satisfying to walk up and down stairs? Maybe it's the new layer of discovery with each step up—a new…
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…
Railroad Semantics #1: Eugene, Portland, Pocatello, and Back!
Devoted to trainhopping and railroad culture, Aaron Dactyl's first Railroad Semantics zine describes the sights,…
Railroad Semantics #3: Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, California, Wyoming, Eugene, Portland, Cheyenne, Roseville, Dunsmuir, Denver
Railroad Semantics' third issue combines personal accounts of train hopping with a slew of diverse railroad-themed…
Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland
This unique travel guide explores the streets, schools, characters, and neighborhoods of author Beverly Cleary’s…
This Is Portland: The City You've Heard You Should Like
Updated with a new edition for 2018 and 50% additional material, This is Portland is a first-hand look at a city that…
Evergreen Ape: The Story of Bigfoot
The Pacific Northwest has always been home to unusual folktales, bizarre legends, and strange goings ons. From the…
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…
Easy Portland Outdoors
This highlights a variety of outdoor activities in Portland that are accessible to almost everyone, regardless of…
PDX by Bike: Your Guide to Discovering Portland, Oregon by Bicycle
In this hands-on guide, Meghan and Elly lay out a basic primer for getting your feet wet (often literally) in the City…
Invincible Summer: An Anthology
Comics memoirist Nicole J. Georges captures her adventures and thoughts in unique, heartfelt illustrations & stories.…
A Thousand Hours in the Sun: Skateboarding and Community in North Portland
A beautiful photo-and-text tribute to the unique creativity, athleticism, and—most of all—community that develops at…
The Swim Cure
If you've ever felt the need to break out of your own depressive headspace, this zine is like the refreshing shock of…
Bicycle Culture Rising #3: A History of Bicycle Activism in Portland, OR
In this, the third issue of Joe Biel's award-winning, ongoing look at the Critical Mass movement, we are given a…
Taking the Lane #1: Sharing the Road with Boys
In this 2010 zine, Elly shares her thoughts and stories about being a woman on a bike in Portland, Oregon. Having been a…
We the People: Life & Death in Portland's Homeless Shelters
Unlike the clinical treatments of the homeless populations in Portland that distill experiences down to numbers,…
Portland Impressions
Portland Impressions is a beautiful collection of color photographs of the city of roses brought to you by landscape…
Reading Portland: The City in Prose
elebrate the gritty pioneer spirit of the city that was a coinflip away from being called West…
Portland Noir
Every city has a history. From its settlement in 1843 through today, Portland Noir paints a dark, intriguing, and not…
Party Line #9
FUTEL's guerrilla public telephone project endures, bringing us a fresh year of imaginative anarchist telecoms with…
Stray City
When Andrea Morales leaves the Midwest behind to join the lesbian underground in Portland, OR, she wasn't planning on…
City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales
City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers…
Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas
The new cartography is about much more than just land! In 150 infographic maps of Portland, Oregon, two leading…
Unique Eats and Eateries of Portland, Oregon
About 20 years back, when the whole "Farm to Table" trend was starting, chefs from all over the world were drawn to…