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
by Elly Blue Author and Joe Biel Author
Your friendly local non-guidebook guide to the cultural microclimates of PDX. Like taking a leisurely stroll with a few…
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Trees of the Pacific Northwest
by Andy Chou Musser Author
Beautiful watercolor illustrations meet reflective, informative commentary on some of the Pacific Northwest's oldest and…
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The Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers: The Roots of Free Healthcare, Free Breakfast, and Neighborhood Control in Oregon
by Joe Biel Author and Aaron Dixon Foreword
In the 1960s through 1980s, the Black Panther Party rose up throughout the United States, envisioning a world…
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Portland Queer: Stories of LGBTQ+ Life in Portland, Oregon
by Ariel Gore Editor
Portland, Oregon, is a queer city in the queerest state in the US. It's also a place where, like anywhere in this…
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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…
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Portland Stair Walks: Explore Portland, Oregon's Public Stairways
by Laura O. Foster Author
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…
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Zinester's Guide to Portland: A Low/No Budget Guide to the Rose City
by Shawn Granton Author
Billed as a "low/no budget guide to visiting and living in Portland, Oregon, the Zinester's Guide to Portland breaks…
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Railroad Semantics #1: Eugene, Portland, Pocatello, and Back!
by Aaron Dactyl Author
Devoted to trainhopping and railroad culture, Aaron Dactyl's first Railroad Semantics zine describes the sights,…
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Railroad Semantics #3: Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, California, Wyoming, Eugene, Portland, Cheyenne, Roseville, Dunsmuir, Denver
by Aaron Dactyl Author
Railroad Semantics' third issue combines personal accounts of train hopping with a slew of diverse railroad-themed…
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Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland
by Laura O. Foster Author
This unique travel guide explores the streets, schools, characters, and neighborhoods of author Beverly Cleary’s…
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This Is Portland: The City You've Heard You Should Like
by Alexander Barrett Author and Andrew Dickson Author
Updated with a new edition for 2018 and 50% additional material, This is Portland is a first-hand look at a city that…
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Evergreen Ape: The Story of Bigfoot
by David Norman Lewis Author
The Pacific Northwest has always been home to unusual folktales, bizarre legends, and strange goings ons. From the…
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On Subbing: The First Four Years
by Dave Roche Author
On Subbing is a quiet classic. It's impossible to put down, or forget, Dave Roche's vivid, self-deprecating tales of…
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Easy Portland Outdoors
by Teresa Bergen Author
This highlights a variety of outdoor activities in Portland that are accessible to almost everyone, regardless of…
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PDX by Bike: Your Guide to Discovering Portland, Oregon by Bicycle
by Elly Blue Author and Meghan Sinnott Author
In this hands-on guide, Meghan and Elly lay out a basic primer for getting your feet wet (often literally) in the City…
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Invincible Summer: An Anthology
by Nicole Georges Author
Comics memoirist Nicole J. Georges captures her adventures and thoughts in unique, heartfelt illustrations & stories.…
$12.00 17 comments
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A Thousand Hours in the Sun: Skateboarding and Community in North Portland
by Per Bjesse Photographer and Amelia Bjesse-Puffin Editor
A beautiful photo-and-text tribute to the unique creativity, athleticism, and—most of all—community that develops at…
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The Swim Cure
by Per Bjesse Author
If you've ever felt the need to break out of your own depressive headspace, this zine is like the refreshing shock of…
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Bicycle Culture Rising #3: A History of Bicycle Activism in Portland, OR
by Joe Biel Author
In this, the third issue of Joe Biel's award-winning, ongoing look at the Critical Mass movement, we are given a…
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Taking the Lane #1: Sharing the Road with Boys
by Elly Blue Author
In this 2010 zine, Elly shares her thoughts and stories about being a woman on a bike in Portland, Oregon. Having been a…
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We the People: Life & Death in Portland's Homeless Shelters
by Patrick Carrico Author
Unlike the clinical treatments of the homeless populations in Portland that distill experiences down to numbers,…
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Portland Impressions
by Steve Terrill Photographer and Craig Lesley Foreword
Portland Impressions is a beautiful collection of color photographs of the city of roses brought to you by landscape…
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Reading Portland: The City in Prose
by John Trombold Editor and Peter Donahue Editor
elebrate the gritty pioneer spirit of the city that was a coinflip away from being called West…
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Portland Noir
by Kevin Sampsell Author
Every city has a history. From its settlement in 1843 through today, Portland Noir paints a dark, intriguing, and not…
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13 Years of Good Luck: The Microcosm Publishing Sampler
by Julia Alekseyeva Contributor, Lee Baillie Contributor, Moe Bowstern Contributor, Alexander Barrett Contributor, Nate Beaty Contributor, 32 more
To celebrate our thirteenth anniversary of publishing books and zines about self-empowerment, we put together this…
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Party Line #9
by Karl Anderson Author
FUTEL's guerrilla public telephone project endures, bringing us a fresh year of imaginative anarchist telecoms with…
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Stray City
by Chelsey Johnson Author
When Andrea Morales leaves the Midwest behind to join the lesbian underground in Portland, OR, she wasn't planning on…
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City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales
by Gigi Little Author
City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers…
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Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas
The new cartography is about much more than just land! In 150 infographic maps of Portland, Oregon, two leading…
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Unique Eats and Eateries of Portland, Oregon
by Adam Sawyer Author
About 20 years back, when the whole "Farm to Table" trend was starting, chefs from all over the world were drawn to…
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