#microcosm publishing

Out this week: All-New Henry & Glenn Comics & Stories (Microcosm Publishing, $7): 

Tom Neely returns to his small-press comix featuring cartoon versions of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig, as the couple adopt a cat named Iggy and Henry gets cast in a new movie.

Fanzine Friday #28: Coffeeshop Crushes: Tales of Love and Lust in Coffee Establishments (2012) ed. by Nicole J. Georges & Jon Van Oast

From the publisher's website:

If you've ever crushed out on your local barista, Coffeeshop Crushes: Tales of Love and Lust in Coffee Establishments is your new best friend! Editors Nicole J. Georges (Invincible Summer) and Jon Van Oast take you into the sexy, confusing, hilarious realm of server/customer romance (both requited and, sadly, otherwise.) With contributions from folks like Too Much Coffee Man's Shannon Wheeler, Brainfag comix dude Nate Beaty, and Constant Rider's Kate Lopresti, Coffeeshop Crushes is one big ball of sexual frustration and nerve-shattering caffeine! As raunchy and graphic as it is sweet and coy, Coffeeshop Crushes is 32 pages of sex, lies, and über-embarrassing shoot-downs. Now in its fourth printing, this comix/essay zine will keep you laughing and cringing until you're too caffeine-buzzed to think!

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So my friend turned me onto this small Portland Oregon publisher.  If you want books to fuck with your world view, help you with actual self care, or spread a little anarchy this is the publisher for you.  Seriously!  I just found a leaflet called “Organizing Cools the Planet” on there, there’s another called “How to Resist Amazon and Why”.  Or how about “Perspectives on Anarchist Theory: Beyond the Crisis”.

Depending on where you live in the world, it’s probably not too difficult to find a field guide to the plants native to your region. In fact, there may be several of them. They may not cover all the plants you’ll encounter in natural areas near you, but they’ll be a good starting point. Yet, considering that most of us live in cities these days, field guides to the wild plants of urban areas are…

Exclusive Cover Reveal: Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers ed. by Lydia Rogue

I don’t really know how to come up with a cooler name for a collection than Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers, but then again, I don’t have to, because someone else did and I get to reveal the cover today! Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurersis edited by…

Shortly after appearing on the podcast way back in 2015, Joe Biel sent me an email. Since the interview, he’d been diagnosed with autism (or “Asperger’s” at the time), a revelation that had already begun to have a profound effect on his life.

Biel returned 30-odd episodes later to discuss the insight and impact.

On a recent visit to New York City, the Portland-based publisher returned my apartment to discuss the intervening four years his life, which included the 2016 publication of Good Trouble.