Microcosm Publishing

Raleigh Briggs, author of the popular Microcosm title Make Your Place, is back with another pamphlet on better, healthier living. This time around, she tackles soap-making basics, and teaches us how to create silky handmade soaps at home. ...

Jesse Reklaw always has 10,000 things to do, and one of them is make this diary comic, about those 10,000 things! This is one of the finest diary comics around! For each day, he even charts his energy level, mood, and various pains, including headaches and back pain. ...

Jackie made this little zine about what "hard femme" means to her. She talks about her desire to wear dresses and get dirty, and how hard femme gives her the identity to do both of those things at once. She's tired of the butch/femme dichotomy, and this is an attempt to shake that up.

We're getting ready to print our 2010 Publishing and Distribution Catalog-- filled with published and distributed books, zines, videos, tshirts, patches, stickers, buttons, tshirts, posters, postcards- and everything else we do...

When Language Runs Dry is a zine that seeks to illuminate a life lived with chronic illness. The 2nd issue is just as pretty and sad as the first. Cristen Couzens writes about musculoskeletal dysfunction as it relates to the moon and her cycle. ...

No More Coffee is a zine of stories for people who stay up late at night, and are stories which may or may not have happened as they are written. Author Ben supplies us with 4 tales. They are: Ghosts, about a kid brother spying on his sister as she plots to run away from home. ...

Issue #15 of the long-running Somnambulist is an interesting one. Martha had to move in with her family due to ongoing health problems, and took the opportunity to record their weekly family meetings. ...

There's plenty of hilarious reasons to love/hate your cell phone, and in this issue, Tom goes through 10 of them. Cellphones can mean getting extra space in tumultuous relationships with your kids, but it can also lead to sexting! ...

Secret Beach is a new cool zine out of Chicago, and it's a little hard to describe. It's edited by Liam Warfield, with contributed articles by Eleanor Balson and Aaron Smith, and honestly, it reminds me of something Aaron might make. ...

Resist #46 is absolutely jam-packed with information! As always, it's very very bicycle-centric. This issue has detailed bike cart instructions, with a comparison between welding and bolting, and extensive photos of punks riding a circle bike. ...

I'd met Kelly of Shortandqueer zine before and found him quite charming and friendly. But what I didn't know is that he's a huge baseball fan. Well, he was the biggest fan as a kid, and when the Phillies went back to the World Series, it reignited his passion for baseball. ...

Daniel McGowan is an environmental rights activist currently serving a 7 year prison sentence. for his involvement in a series of arsons attributed to the ELF. He was transferred to a CMU in Marion Illinois, a facility set up to house those who are facing terrorism charges. ...