An exploration of the mixtape habits of bands like Veruca Salt, the Thermals, the Gossip, the Muffs, the Frumpies, the New Bloods and more. It's a series of interviews, about mixtapes, with bands who you might put on your own mixtape! Comes with a template for your very own mixtape stencil! It makes you want to make a tape for someone special ASAP!

Just as "Chicago Stories" goes out of print, we are treated to another new short book from Aaron Cometbus. It pulls together a few selections previously publishing in other zines, magazines, and newspapers to create a story about his time in New York City, taking a walk for his 30th birthday, the switch of an old friend to a new lover, coffee reviews in Pensacola, a clever book review of Peops by Fly, a library love story, and more. I predict this book will be out of print by the end of the year if you don't already have enough reasons to snatch it up!

This zine is full of Isy's neat comics. In the main story, she and her cohorts protest the G8 summit in Germany! Isy cooks giant vats of food, translates from German into English during meetings, drinks a few celebratory beers, and generally participates in demonstrations 10,000 people strong. Another comic features Isy's trip to a horticulture fair where she feels out of place at first, but still wins a ribbon for her vegan chocolate cherry cake. Isy also attends Climate Camp 07 and tells us a little about pancakes and beech trees. Many of her friends write in with lists of things they hate. Includes lists from Ryan Mishap, Anto of Loserdom zine, Steve of Rum Lad, and a bunch of other folks as well. This zine, although about protesting some pretty awful stuff and full of hate-lists, is still super posi!

Do you remember that one time that you got a professional job and it alienated your friends? Maybe you were doubting your DIY punk existence or just needed to raise money for that surgery or to go traveling, but your friends just didn't understand. But at least you were fortuitous enough to write up a good zine about the whole affair with cute illustrations to carry the story along! You packed dumpstered flowers into the milkcrate on the back of your bike and rode around town with your new date that you baked a cake for before the dance party. You are sure everything will work out. Life moves on, people grow up, and sometimes the divides are harder to see and understand than when you were a teenager. Sometimes life gets more complex.

A continuation in Sascha Scatter's tradition of telling stories about his experiences through mental health adventures. Sascha is the founder and heavily involved with the radical mental health organization, The Icarus Project, which has grown to be much larger than himself and his friends. These are his own tales of escapism into TV and the X-Men as a metaphor for people with powerful gifts, believing in ghosts, the comfort of hearing crazy stories, lucid dreaming, the varoius Icarus visioning meetings and processes, remembering his lowest times of feeling rejected by society for his lifestyle and pursuits, counseling and mentors, workaholism, medications, and much more exploring the dark recesses of the mind.

My Big Black Book of Ghosts is a thick, dark zine, full of often disturbing stories of growing up in Daytona, Florida. It's equal parts nostalgic and harsh-- stories you can relate to blend into a sense of youthful machismo heavily tinged with cynicism. My Big Black Book is about the people who don't stop to help others, and the childish pranks you yourself have played. You might find it offensive, but it's also often realistic. It's some of the not so pretty side of human nature and it's done well. At the same time, it's about protests, tours, shows, and other hopeful iconic things. So it's hard to put this zine into a concise box. If I had to pick two words, I'd go with 'brooding' and 'intense'. Aesthetically it's one of the prettiest zines we've seen in a while!

In issue #7! Desi's religious conviction confuses Kate. Seeking solace, Kate spends an afternoon confiding in Verona about her relationship woes....which soon turns hot and heavy. Joey's out of his coma, and back at school, surprisingly acing every question in class. When Joey's classmate Marcus begins to question Joey's sexually, Joey becomes defensive. Joey reveals he still has no memory of how he ended up hospitalized, believing his father put him there. Kate's internship is going better, until it's revealed that the volunteer she's been assigned to work with - is a perpetrator of a hate crime. Could it be...?

Finally issue #8! Joey's out of his coma and doing well in school, until the principal catches he and Marcus smoking, and, uh...hanging out in the boys' room. Nate, the skinhead on community service, attempts to bond with Kate, sort of, and Joey learns the truth about his dad. Such a soap opera!

Okay, issue #9, here we go! After finding out the truth about his dad, Joey and his father get into a terrible fight after which Joey storms out. Luckily he's befriended by some strangers under an overpass. Kate goes to a counter protest and has an awkward encounter with Desi, who catches her about to pull a prank involving condoms.

A group of teenage queer punks get in perpetual trouble with the police when they aren't flirting over loud music or postering their high school with flyers to allow same sex couples at prom. It's like they were your actual high school peers - pissing off the administration and taking care of each other when they get beat up by skinheads. Liz Baillie has a real talent for dialogue, characters, storytelling, and capturing New York - especially those moments that we all live, awkwardly making out, pulling pranks, and drinking beer. This graphic novel collects the first five (out of 10) issues of the comic My Brain Hurts. Listen to a 90 min podcast interview with Liz about all things comical! ISBN 978-1-934620-03-8

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Nickey Robo gives us a play by play of all of the crushes of her life in sequential order! It's really cute and written with such devotion in each case until Nickey's heart is crushed and then stomped into little bits. I think far too many people can unfortunately relate with the kind of crushes and heartbreak portrayed in these pages.

A heartbreaking zine written by Jennifer about her friend Mitch's bike accident and his ongoing recovery. The two of them barely knew each other when it happened...Mitch was hit by a car while riding his bike. Jennifer visited him in the hospital a number of times, sometimes reading out loud to him. Soon she was seeing him regularly, going with him to physical therapy. This is the story of their developing friendship, and of Mitch's struggle after the debilitating accident. Mitch is currently still confined to a wheelchair, but is getting better every day. We wish him the best! All proceeds from this zine go to MADD.

Straight out of Pensacola Florida comes Mylxine (pronounced milk-zine), a jam-packed zine by Scotty about pretty much any topic you could name! Resistance movements to the nazis, interviews with Howard Zinn, the Fleshies, Robert Meeropol-son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a tour journal from Scotty's time as a This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb roadie, a Langston Hughes birthday celebration at the library, Lauren Anzaldo's experiences in Palestine, the history of lynching in Pensacola, and punks against the war!!! Everything inside is well-researched and fascinating!!

After another 2 year hiatus, we are welcomed back to the dark, jaded musings of Al Burian. This time Al collects Burn Collector #10, 11, 12, 13 as well as Natural Disasters #1 and 2 and a teeny bit from Punk Planet. The highlight is Al comparing himself to Kilgore Trout, from Kurt Vonegut's "Breakfast of Champions", a man in his mid-50s; still failed in his profession, using inventive ways of getting through life as an unsuccessful writer. The ironies are definitely present as Al is one of the most respected rock musicians and zine writers around today, yet the comparison makes sense as Al's ex-girlfriend marries someone else (reception at his house, nonetheless). He tries to breakup with a different girlfriend for an entire issue while even his mother is insisting that he should. He travels around Europe and goes to a family reunion in Germany as the family's perpetual loser, where his mother laments how terrible all of his bands' albums are and his family wonders why he has so little income. This book features some of the most solid writing you'll encounter in zines; employing foreshadowing, characters, irony, recurring themes, and metaphor; making for an excellent read. If you aren't already familiar with Burn Collector or just never picked up some of these issues - close your curtains, unplug your phone, bake some cookies, and recline with this book!

A travel zine from Al Burian. It discusses a few incidents such as a seemingly meaningless strike by Italian railroad workers, when Illona Staller offered to provide Saddam Hussein the sex of his life to avert the first gulf war, and seemingly endless, unquestined kindness to strangers in Slovenia.

A reader and road map of bipolar worlds. This is a product built from the many stories of the amazing members of The Icarus Project. Assembled beautifully with jagged pieces of a collective experience, the lessons and scars create an atlas of alternative maps to the particular breed of madness that gets called bipolar, and the ways people are making it through. Traveling through subconscious and waking worlds, from hospital waiting rooms to collective house kitchens, from the desert to the supermarket, these pages chart some of the underground tunnels beneath the mainstream medical model of treatment and the pathologizing language that alienates so many people. Some of these maps will help you to navigate through the existing architecture of the mental health establishment; some of them might help you figure out for yourself where you stand in relation to the larger ecosystem of the earth and the people who inhabit it. A new and exciting model to study mental health with.

Just in time for the 2007 New Orleans Book Fair, the New Orleans super discount pack! We've combined 3 books and 8 zines, focused on life in New Orleans at a discount of $10. Included are: The NEW Chainbreaker book!, Leaning With Intent to Fall (Ethan's new book!) Stories Care Forgot, I Hate This Part of Texas/Keep Loving Keep Fighting #7, I Hate This Part of Texas #5, Crescent City Stories, New Orleans My Love, Emergency #5, Rocket Queen #2, the Gentrification Reader, And The War at Home: New Orleans After Katrina.

A new one from the UK! The New Wave of Cut and Paste uses clipart to comic effect in interviews, record reviews, and a report on the author's learning to drive. Think of that comic Red Meat but then it's actually about something. Includes an interview with Sticky, the underground zine shop in the subway of Melbourne Australia about their sweet set-up! Andy from Bald Cactus zine is interviewed about being a postman for 10 years. Colin Grigson of such bands as Clorox Girls and Defect Defect, is also interviewed. Features record reviews of the newest Thermals record, the New Pornographers, Abandon Ship, The Dauntless Elite, the Boss's "Magic" and others. Zine reviews, an interview with Chillerton, and a guide to putting on a gig round out the issue.

Matt's 3rd issue of good-natured travel stories. Matt it turns out, uses just as many exclamation points in person as he does in his zine! He's an excited guy who wiles away his time biking around the US, swimming in hotel pools, and eating as much continental breakfast as is humanly possible. This issue spends time reflecting on his time in Savannah, GA and contains the story of dumpstering quite a lot of sex toys. Also Matt's attempt at bike trip haikus.

Matt takes his too-small-for-him bicycle, packs it with a sleeping bag, a bunch of bananas, a jar of dumpstered organic peanut butter, a camera, no sleeping bag, and hits the open road. The goal: bike 200-or-so miles north from Savannah, GA to the aptly named burgh of Coward, SC, where Matt will meet his friend Doug who is biking the 200-or-so miles from Raleigh, NC. Simple, right? Well, reality has a way of not matching up with what's expected, but that's what makes life an adventure. Read about Matt's trials and tribulations, peppered throughout with drawings.

The latest installment in the one and only, big wheels keep on turnin', long-distance biking zine, "Next Stop Adventure." Whew! In #2, Matt packs in the travel stories about his 3-month bike trip from North Carolina to Portland, Oregon. There are beautiful views, nights spent sleeping in awkward places, and biking to Lollapalooza to see Rainer Maria. It sounds cheesy, but is actually triumphantly great. NSA is a travel zine worth reading. It's sweet, funny, and makes you feel excited about biking. "Adventure" in this case, is a perfect descriptor.

Prunella Vulgaris received most of her education from strict Catholic nuns at all-girl schools. This zine serves as an abridged dictionary of the most eccentric, vicious, or otherwise memorable nuns she had to endure. Additionally, it is an engrossing document of the completely alien lifestyle that these eight particular women chose. The writing is casual and familiar, making it a quick and satisfying read.

A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off the Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off on the winds of the world. Without the smug cynicism that seems to permeate most modern radical tales, this story is told with genuine hope, and a voice that never loses its connection with the mysteries of life, even in the midst of everyday tragedies. Wandering across Europe, the dozens of vignettes are the details of the whole-a squatted castle surrounded by tourists on the Spanish coast, a philosophizing businessman on the highways of France, a plaÁa full of los crustos in Barcelona, a diseased foot in a Belgian train squat, a glow bug on the dew-covered grass of anywhere-a magical, novel-like folktale for the end of the world. 146 pages long with a cover featuring original artwork by Nikki McClure.

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Mike Croft (who passed away recently) originally wrote this zine in 1998 and then later re-wrote it in 2001 (in my house, even). It collects negative press clippings about Elvis, a tale of dental mishaps, interviews with Propagandhi, Your Mother, and The UFOs, high school reflections on drugs and straight edge, an article about deaths at intervention camps for rebellious teens and abuses that go on there, comics about dreams, the absurdity of sports, "Even Ronald McDonald was a vegetarian", and a review of a failed show and trip to the record store (and successful passing of money to a pan-handler). This zine is well written, despite what you might think, and highly entertaining. If you throw in the mix that it was written by a high school sophomore, it's fairly mind-blowing. Mike passed away in 2006 and his friends are making a conscious effort to put his writing back in print and eventually publish a book of his work since he was such a talented writer and it was so important to him.

Mike Croft (RIP) tells you stories of finding a product called the Bible Bar (no joke - and it's vegan!), getting caught drunk underage, waking up in the hospital, and then finding out that the owner of the bar is not mad at him - but rather wants to pay him to shut up (and then later lie about it!)! Stories of pepper spray in the vents at school, falling asleep at job orientation, getting caught smoking pot, being a punk rocker in a small town, entertaining co-workers, getting harrassed by drunk people and crazies, and drug stories. Great entertainment. Mike passed away in 2006 and his friends are making a conscious effort to put his writing back in print and eventually publish a book of his work since he was such a talented writer and it was so important to him.