The Reading Warehouse

This new edition of Microcosm's popular DIY guide to zine making is updated to address zine making in today's digital-and-social-media-obsessed world. Covering all the bases for beginners, Make a Zine hits on more advanced topics like Creative Commons licenses, legality, and sustainability.

Make a Zine also takes a look at the burgeoning indie comix scene with a solid and comprehensive chapter by punk illustrator Fly. Part history lesson, part how-to guide, Make a Zine is a call to arms, an ecstatic, positive rally cry in the face of TV show book clubs and bestsellers by celebrity chefs. As says Biel in the book's intro, Let's go

Joe Biel is a self-made publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. He is the founder/manager of Microcosm Publishing and cofounder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He tours with his films on the Dinner and Bikes program and has been featured in Time, Publishers Weekly, Utne Reader, Portland Mercury, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Readymade, Punk Planet, Profane Existence, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. He is the author of Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business on the Spectrum; Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior; The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting; Beyond the Music; Bamboozled; Bipedal, By Pedal; and more. He is the director of the documentaries Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland; If It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk; Of Dice & Men; $100 & a T-Shirt; and the Groundswell film series. The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy described Biel as not trained in pedagogy. His work can be found at JoeBiel.net.

Paul Michael Garcia, an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and former company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, received his classical training in theater from Southern Oregon University, where he worked as an actor, director, and designer.