If you are unfamiliar with Infiltration, it's the tale of people going to places where you "aren't supposed to go" like tunnels, sewers, the glass ceiling of the mall, etc. What I found fascinating about this zine is the size of the actual subculture - it's a worldwide phenomenon. It's also neat to know that people have various motives for their exploration and have families at home while they are putting themselves in harm's way. The one thing that I really don't understand is that most of the infiltrators presented here don't seem to mind getting caught in the end as it sort of "completes the cycle" or validates their work. Really interesting. #25 is "Military Leftovers" about exploring military installations. *RIP NINJ*

This zine was recommended to me and it turned out to be quite fantastic. Melissa writes stories exploring the darker side of existence; homelessness, drug abuse, extreme poverty, losing friends, and child abuse. The stories don't always have happy endings but that is life and Melissa does a great job of saying "some people live this way and it is their reality!" The stories are really emotional and touching at times and she does a great job of getting in character. I was thoroughly impressed and this is one of the best zines that I've read in recent memory.

Nicole J. Georges captures her adventures and thoughts in unique, heartfelt illustrations & stories. Five years of dog mothering, chicken raising, coffee-shop crushes, drama, low paying jobs, heartbreaking romance, inspiring friendships, vegan snacks, & more! This exhaustive collection will take the reader on a whirlwind tour through Nicole's personality, wit, and charm! This second edition collects issues #1-8 of her zine and features 38 new, additional pages! Recently featured on the Sister Spit tour! ISBN 978-0-9726967-6-0

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The usual doggies, sheep, and elephants wearing clothes - but this volume, collecting issues #9-14 of Nicole Georges’ comic, focuses around a relationship. It begins, blossoms, and then falls apart - as she sails solo on the ocean, pictorially speaking. The first Invincible Summer character to use a real name goes from hero to villain in these 5 issues. We're also treated to the usual vegan recipes, priceless moments, friendships, humor, fashion, and heart from this rad Portland lady.

For those who like their zines read to them! The IPRC, Independent Publishing Resource Center, has put out another collection of zine writers reading their zines out loud! This disc includes Artnoose reading from Kerbloom #65 about a zine tour she went on with Tomas of Rad Dad. Allie and Bill Donahue represent their zine Biff with Allie's piece about watching baseball. Paul Nama of Corpritboy takes a trip through America dispensing postcard-sized anecdotes. Also features: Glossolalia, Dishwasher, Camojacket, Confessions of an Urban Hillbilly, The Faithful, and Miranda. I'm listening to it right now!

A digital smorgasboard of Portland zine authors reading their own work assembled onto a 12 track, 70 minute disc featuring Steve Gevurtz (Journalsong), Ariel Gore (Hip Mama), Dave Roche (On Subbing), Shoshanna Cohen (Gulper), Dan Howland (Journal of Ride Theory), Kate Lopresti (Constant Rider), Nicole Georges (Invincible Summer), Clutch McBastard (Clutch), Moe Bowstern (Xtra Tuf), Krissy Durden (Figure 8), Mark Russell (Penny Dreadful), Eleanor Whitney (Indulgence), and our own Alex Wrekk (Brainscan Zine). The pieces are all augmented by musical interludes and little bonuses that don't translate as well into print (like hearing the records Clutch references) and having guest voices read additional parts.

This audio zine is a benefit for the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) in Portland, Oregon.

Dave Roche (of On Subbing) and his brother, the soon to be famous Matt Roche, have compiled a weird assortment of items and stuffed them into an envelope. They are as follows: #1 A book made of fortune cookies that Dave has actually gotten over the last 6 years. On the back of each one is a fortune he wishes he'd gotten. #2 His brother Matt has drawn a "calendar" of animals with human butts. I guess that's what he does. #3 Matt drew some pictures of the kappa, a mythological Japanese creature that eats cucumbers and children. Dave wrote blurbs about them and their folklore. Then they made gocco prints of the drawings, and put the appropriate info on the back of each one. There's a set of 6. #4 Dave put together a zine of drawings that are attempting to be less funny than Ziggy. Have you ever tried this? It's nearly impossible. Dave comes pretty close.

Triggering is the first word I would use to describe this zine, so be aware! This is a compilation zine of personal accounts of sexual assault. There are graphic descriptions that make my stomach turn but I also felt a sense of pride for these people being so strong and willing to share their stories. Interspersed between the stories are poems and lyrics about rape and recovery as well as a reading list. Some of the writers are not native English speakers which adds a sense of sadness to the terrorizing universal-ness of rape and abuse that happens in our world.

From Katie and Stewart comes, "I'm Sorry But I Love You Both, " a collection of drawings from the notebooks of children. They found the notebooks in a pile of trash and plan to make more zines from them as time goes on. The formating is really sharp, with an image of each notebook's cover preceding a series of drawings found in that notebook. This would probably be popular with fans of Found magazine. Highlights include the pages, "Robert lost his shirt," "It's lunch time stae out of my lunch," and "Hammerhead sharks are in most attack!" This zine isn't meant to be ironic, just touching for what it is. We can't wait to see more.

Several documents by these fabulous "Jane" women talking about the group's illegal activities: learning how to perform abortions, teaching themselves and others the skill, and ultimately providing abortions (and support) for thousands of women in the Chicago area. Truly impressive work that was equally risky and still relevant to learn about today.

Same content, with color cover!

They say it's impossible to pick favorite children. I stewed a few hours on the process and decided on a pretty decent and mixed selection of zines I liked - Avow #11, 3.05 Metres: A Ten Foot Rule Primer, Ideas in Pictures #5, Mayorga #44, Murder Can Be Fun #12, OJ Killed Elvis #4, Papercutter #4, Revolutionaries, End of a Perfect Day #8, & Xtra Tuf #5

Don't know what to order? Here's a helpful hint! Sometimes people don't notice some of our special little titles!

Journalsong makes you fall in love with its author, Steve Gevurtz. It also makes you romanticize Portland while trying to deal with the bad things and appreciate the good things in your own life. #6 is a meditation on the nature of zinewriting. Oh yeah, it's also about wishing you could believe in jesus, conversing with a glass of whiskey, beating up your friend's stupid boyfriend, contextualizing instant rice and beans, burning down Williamsburg, overtipping tiny bartenders, deciding to fall in love with someone right when they decide to fall out of love with you, and hanging out with Warren G. Accompanied by beautiful and cute drawings by Nicole Georges. We've respected Steve's writing, aesthetics, and ethics for quite some time and our proud to publish this issue.

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Hope takes us in into and onto the desolate, hurricane ravaged city streets of New Orleans. This is what a recovering community looks like without the old faces. Neighbors come and neighbors go, roving packs of dogs and riding bikes down empty streets by the putrid odor of the rot. Friends come back or bond closer in a world peppered with nostalgia and well...hope.

We follow along as the city empties. We follow along as the city surives. We follow along as our author navigates the difficulties of New Orleans rebuilding. Going away and coming back; home is never the same and memories lines every curve.

Hope and John team up on this split zine reflecting on hurricane Katrina. Both long-time New Orleans residents, each has to come to terms with loss in their own way. John evacuates, travels, and returns, while Hope stays, applies to school, works, and lives on as best she can. Both Hope and John take their time here, and present a somber account of life after a natural disaster. There is also a special memorial for Helen Hill. Their words embody what it means to be human, each story picking up another piece, and slowly putting their world back together.

..or "Project Treadmill." Now with an expanded print-run! This beautiful little letter-pressed zine says so much in so few words. This particular issue is greatly relatable for project-minded folks who are self-diagnosed work-a-holics. "Is this how selling out begins?...Am I a hamster running in circles?" Raises thought-provoking questions for those who love to create. What a tiny gorgeous gift this zine is!

This beautiful little letter-pressed zine says so much in so few words. This particular issue has some quick and short anecdotes and lessons learned from Karen and Tomas' zine tour of the PacNor US and Canada. Thought-provoking stuff for those of us who host house guess, go on tour, or put on events. What a tiny gorgeous gift this zine is! Now with an expanded print-run!

After issue #67 subtitled, "Why I Stay," comes #68, "...and Why I'm Leaving." artnoose explains as gently and firmly as possible her reasons for moving to Pittsburgh. It's not a flighty decision. In fact it's carefully weighed, and has been a year in the making. She's loved the Bay Area like a significant other, entrenching herself in her home indefinitely. Until it became apparent that in order to pursue her dreams, and complete the projects she imagines, she'll need more space, and more space costs money, and so on. Kerbloom #68 is a sweet zine about opportunity, change, and finding what makes you ultimately happy.

Kerbloom #70 is an art object for sure. Still with letter-pressed covers, now with screen-printed insides! artnoose has taken photos of her new Pittsburgh buddies, added some word bubbles, and screen-printed the whole darn thing. Wild. Featured for your viewing enjoyment are the cover and the first page.

Kerbloom #71 is a fictional conversation between two people during the months of March & April about the relative merits of opening up to other people, commitment, the distillation of adventure into a limited concept, the pros and cons of child rearing, the isolation of moving, the trade offs between the fluidity of travel culture and building real connections based in permanence. It's punk philosophy disguised as a conversation. Really good stuff.

Kerbloom #72 is a meta-zine about a zine that never was. It's about a zine artnoose wrote, and then decided not to publish. Lately in her life, a couple of things she's published have really hurt other people's feelings and she's wary of doing it again. She contemplates the ethics of communicating something extremely personal via a zine, or if at all. Is it ever right to want revenge? artnoose talks around her recent sadness, without ever revealing what's hurt her. She decides to keep it ambiguous, which somehow makes the hurt seem more potent.

John Porcellino's staggeringly beautiful, minimalist minicomics have been one of zinedom's most pleasing standbys throughout the past decade. Self published for over 15 years, John does autobiographical comics that created a style for other self publishers who didn't fit the stylings of mainstream comics and inspire new greats, like CLUTCH.

Devoted readers rejoice! A giant compendium of King-Cat comics! Check out that page count--A whopping 384 pages of the best John Porcellino stories from issues 1-50! There are lots of dream comics, including a Madonna dream where the two of them fall in love. There's also a UFO sighting, an entire issue dedicated to his dog, and of course a fair number of cats. There's also about 20 pages of notes in the back that provide a synopsis of each issue, and a little back story for some of the comics which is neat. If you like autobiographical comics, and Husker Du, and cats, then this book is for you!

A true personal punkrock fanzine! Kissoff is great because it buffers Frederico Garcia Lorca quotes up against stories about Circle Jerks flyers. Chris is smart, articulate, and dedicated to zinedom. He writes about hitchhiking with a girl who is no longer his friend, unemployment, and a friend who becomes a night-watchman. And then a Gore Vidal quote to round it out. Kissoff is always an enjoyable read.

Before there was zine-stalker Bill Price there was the lesser known Robert Dupree. This zine, by Sean Tejeratchi of Craphound fame, happened when Dupree struck a nerve. Sean began assembling letters and stories about and by the man himself. You see, Robert had a certain way of creating fake characters, having them write letters to women, and taking on persuasive arguments about why people should have sex with Robert Dupree, the "king of oral love". It only gets worse from there, but strangely it's quite the captivating read that you cannot put down.

Heather and Tiffany created this cookbook as a benefit for local no-kill animal shelters in Portland, OR. 100% of their profits for this zine are donated, and since as of right now they've got an amazingly good (free) copy hook-up, the cats and dogs of this town are breathing a little easier. It's food for humans, not cats though. When they lived together and you visited their house you'd be greeted by top notch biscuits among other delicacies. This cookbook also includes yummy pancakes, cheese sauce, jambalaya, lasagna, broccoli and rice casserole, macaroni salad, hush puppies, gumbo, stuffed peppers, and lots more delicious goodies. Top notch "comfort food" that they prepare constantly.