Joe Biel writes a new lengthy explanation of 4 years in a story titled "Brutal Honest Tea" about honest communication, the opportunity costs of various choices, the room for regret in those choices, drinking iced tea, and the results of social awkwardness. It questions the various life paths and whether or not people really think their decisions through or feel pressured to do certain things. Also contains episode 3 of his roommate reviews covering a period about 3 years ago. Reprinted on offset!

Back by popular demand! Due to the large number of young vasectomy-less individuals inquiring about how to get their plumbing fixed, this zine has been reprinted and ready for re-consumption thanks to offset printing technology at Eberhardt Press! Joe Biel strives to find logic, purpose, and meaning in his existence once again. This issue is about friends having accidental babies by the boatload and his resulting vasectomy to prevent himself from befalling the same fate. Plenty of details about seeking out a vasectomy, the actual surgery, and the reasons why. It's probing and personal and has the usual slice of life reality. Also includes roommate reviews supplement #4 covering the period of 2001 living at the Onramp. More gritty details about other peoples' lives. Can you figure out the mystery of how the clip art is relevant to the text? Now a newly offset printed second version!

Three years after the fact Joe busts out a zine tour based zine about "Cocoon: The Road Trip" from 2004. A collection of hand drawn maps, photos by Dave Roche, and travelling anecdotes from the road, the zine presents a pretty strong case for the idea that zine making and zine tours really are not that hard to put together and can be kind of cool sometimes. Look at all of the great, zany experiences that you, yourself could experience on the road! More than that it's a look at friendship and the motivators and hard times that one experiences by pushing yourself into more trying and difficult situations.

In this autobiographical comic, Alec Longstreth, provides a history of his comics obsession! How he discovered indie comics, and how he started making his own. He also talks about being dragged to see the Robert Crumb movie by his mom, being forced to read "Understanding Comics" in college, then making comics about his hellacious times in college, and even a bit about 24 hour comic making. And in a feat of metaphysical strength, it follows Alex's comic-life to the present day, ending with him publishing his autobio comics to the world! You too can become obsessed with comics and make your own!

The second part of Alec's 2-part autobiographical comic! In this issue an 18 year old Alec begins his own comic book, so he can write whatever he wants and share it with his friends. He learns cut and paste, figures out how to get copies made, and wrestles with the repercussions of having subscriptions and deadlines. He moves a lot, goes to his first comic convention, wins an ignatz for best minicomic, all the while working on his epic comic masterpiece, "Basewood"! Such an inspiring read, maybe when you put this down, you'll make your own comic!

Ever felt like nothing more than a number? In this issue of Phase 7, Alec takes stick-figure Boy to college, where he learns to become part of the machine. Inspired by Alec's own experiences as a college student...

Alec has gone and turned the first four issues of his comic zine "Phase 7" into a book. For those who weren't there at the beginning, issue one is a collection of shorts instead of one continuous story. Alec travels to Philly, has re-occurring nightmares, and tries to save the worms. Number two is Alec's trip to New York, plus Alec gets abducted by aliens. Number three is an epic road trip across the united states, which accurately captures what roadtrips are mostly like. It's hot, there's traffic, and sometimes you have to sleep in the car. Of course it captures the exciting parts too. Number four is the most developed of course, and most closely resembles the Phase 7 we know and love today. It's story line of a young man so captivated by other people's graffiti that he strikes out and begins doing it himself. Until "the man" brings him down. It's good to have these back issues available again!

A personal-is-political zine a bit on the artistic/emotional side, this zine focuses on the certainty of impermanence and the cycles & recurring metaphors in life. Issue #1: RESISTANCE IS FERTILE was co-written with her partner Zanarchy & is a chronicle of the year they gave birth to a baby girl and subsequently gave her up for adoption. Aside from describing the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of pregnancy, childbirth, and adoption, many other topics are tied into the account, including: feminist theory, the medical (mis)management of birth, the politics of reproduction, overcoming poverty, the history of adoption, radical parenting, birth control, making reproductive choices available to women, and most importantly creating communities that will foster the growth and change necessary to overcome our oppressive patriarchal culture-system. A strong read with some concrete ideas to tie it together.

Philadelphia's mens group to address sexism and assault in the punk scene has created this zine full of discussion items to address problems and situations in your own community. There are reproduceable flyers with great graphics and icebreaker questions to get your own gears grinding in your head.

While this zine raises more questions than answers, that is perhaps the best way to address this large, scoping issue that affects us all and certainly needs a better microphone lifted to it in every subculture.

A book giving an inside look at the thriving subculture as an important present day movement and a way of life. Covers such topics as DIY, skinheads, fanzines, anarchism, homosexuality and, ethics! Includes over 70 photos of names you might know and others you might not, new layout, graphics and text for those curious about the background, meaning, and true intentions of punk.

In the vein of the classic Soy Not Oi cookbook, Please Don’t Feed The Bears compiles three issues of the previously self-published vegan cook zine with a range of tasty and simple animal-free dishes. The collection finally makes available these long-obscure fanzines originally published in the mid 1990s. Here you’ll find incredible recipes for stews, soups, sauces, noodle & bean dishes, baked entrees, deserts and more! There is also a fair smattering of new material bringing this to a whopping 160 pages of deliciousness!

In the spirit of Soy Not Oi, these recipes are written to be simple, straightforward, and perfect for the newest convert to the vegan revolution!

But far from bring just a vegan cookbook, Please Don’t Feed The Bears reads as a look into vegan lifestyle and underground culture. The book is thoroughly illustrated with eye-catching drawings and clearly laid-out graphics. In addition, the book also includes assorted rantings about music and the politics of leading a vegan lifestyle. Together the book provides easy-to-make and delectable recipies while reflecting the DIY punk rock sensibility of zine culture. ISBN 0-9770557-1-X

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Comprising over 150 vegan recipes and anecdotes from some of the bands that played at the over 200 shows booked by Ireland's Hope Collective from 1987-1999. This wonderful document is three things in one. First and foremost, it is a book of tasty recipes compiled by all your favorite punk rock stars - Neurosis' Tomato & Orange Soup; NOFX's salsa; Bikini Kill's chili non carne; Fugazi Chocolate Cake etc. etc. Secondly, its a tour diary of sorts, filled with the highs and lows, as presented by MDC, Chumbawamba, Green Day, No Means No, Jawbreaker, The Ex, Therapy? etc. etc. And finally, it's a great testament to the DIY, underground punk scene, and what a small group of folks can do when they put their minds to it! Plus, of course, lots of photos of all your favorites live in action. Truly a feast for the eyes, mind, and palate.

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New comics from Nate! In Please Release, Nate examines his job working with developmentally disabled adults, in a touching, non-clinical way. It's not technical, but tangible. As always, he links his personal life to the punk subculture that's shaped him. Scenes of sing-a-longs give way to a desire for something...more? These are stories of growing up, and finding meaning.

The highlight of the collection being a short comic detailing his weekend stint leading workshops on comics for six to fourteen year olds in the Gainesville Public Library. My favorite panel depicts a little boy holding up a picture he's drawn of a monster. The boy's word bubble reads, "It's actually a cyborg with a hydra inside it's mouth." Priceless.

That's what Nate does best; capture people in their most human moments. Here he succeeds, yet again.

A term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, has become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians. Considering Israel, Palestine, the Israel lobby in the US, the current Middle East crisis, and the ramifications at home and abroad, this book has recurring relevance!. Herein you'll find 18 of the finest essays and articles (from nine Jews and nine Gentiles!). A lot of the names will be familiar—Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Lenni Brenner, Uri Avnery, plus the editors. Then, there's former CIA analysts Bill and Kathy Christison, the trenchant and witty philosopher Michael Neumann, seasoned Capitol Hill staffer "George Sutherland," Will Yeoman's path-breaking essay on Israel and divestment, Shaheed Alam—who became a target of the fanatical Daniel Pipes—and Israeli journalist Yigal Bronner. Plus Kurt Nimmo, Bruce Jackson, Jeffrey Blankfort, and more. The first of the Counterpunch series from AK Press, is a timely anthology on how silence and complicity in crimes against a betrayed people has been enforced. Now part of our "holy shit, is it really $2 retail?!?!?" department!

Ryan Finnerty loves his mail and creates an entire zine dedicated to the post! He analyzes the material elements of what goes into most mail, the intracacies and mechanics of mail delivery (sorting, scheduling, machines), famous correspondence through the mail, and reasons that the post is a great means of communication for the left! Fun for the dorky mail-obsessive in all of us!

Ryan collects all of his stories that relate to the post office and reprint them here, in his zine, with much love. An elderly Chinese woman turns surly on him, attacking him with her cane inside the post office. He guides us through the process of sending postcards while traveling. We are reminded of chain letters, an artifact of a former era. We learn about the ol' Pony Express back in their day. Ryan also did a neat little zine tour that he documents here.

Pound the Pavement's new binding technique helps to hold its wealth of content--Approximately 200 protest images of George Bush's face, or slanderous spray-paint scrawl invoking his name. The extensive cataloging within this zine had been 7 years in the making, or since that dark day Bush became president. Josh Macphee has captured images from all over the U.S as well as included photo's from other countries to document people's widespread resistance to the Bush Regime! In a brief introduction, Josh challenges us to consider whether these images give us control, or whether they have control over us. Issue 10 is a thorough and important documentation of our version of American history.

Need ideas for making creative street art? Look no further than Pound The Pavement. Each issue provides scores of full color pix of graff, stencils and art vandalism from around the world, including text and commentary to inspire any beginner in "getting up". Art ranges from political to the curious to the unexplainable. Issue #9 examines stencil art on the bases of streetlights, including how to make an amp out of a lamp base.

Documenting her struggles with the concepts of privilege, patriarchy, and sexism she encountered while being one person among many to create and live in an ill-fated squat in Emeryville, Hannah Potassium tackles some issues here that are, by their very nature, mired in lots of gray areas. Hannah was the one who found the squat, cleaned it up (mostly by herself), and slowly found herself living with a shit-ton of people in this squat, the majority of whom didn’t really care for her at all, whom she was continually at odds with. If you’re interested in squatting, or discussions about the use (or misuse) of words like “community” and “safe spaces,” check this one out. Granted, there’s only one person’s side being presented in a zine like this, but if she’s to be believed, I feel really bad for her—starting something with a lot of hope and excitement, only to have it all end in filth, ruin, and resentment. Definitely had me thinking about all the drawbacks and positives to renting, squatting and/or homeowning. Copious amounts of footnotes, a bibliography, etc. –Keith Rosson

Can puberty be funny without laughing at a pre-teen's expense? Major hollywood pictures would tell you no. But Prepubescent argues otherwise. It's not overtly political or anything, just a bunch of comics written by a mom, about her son's transition into adulthood. Still, it comes from an often overlooked perspective: One of understanding. The author states that the questions her son asks are questions we've all asked...that people will laugh with him, not at him. And I think it's true. It's pretty easy to get confused about your body. Some topics discussed include wet dreams, do women poop and pee out the same hole, and do boys get their period.

The process of gentrification, where disadvantaged, low-income neighborhoods transform into "nicer", upper-income neighborhoods, has become a hot topic in Portland. The rapid changes that have happened to Alberta St. and Mississippi Ave. in the past years, and that are starting to see shape in such far flung places as Foster Rd. and St. Johns are all part of a larger process of disinvestment and reinvestment. This zine lays down the basics on what gentrification is, who causes it, who benefits from it, how the process works, and gives us a few ideas on how to curb it. Essential if you live in Portland (or for that matter, any North American city) and are conscious about what's happening.

Tyrone comes from a wealthy background and is refreshingly unashamed of that fact. Growing up he never realized just how well off he was or what the implications of that wealth were. But as he got older he realized that there had to be a responsible way to not only address his privilege, but also undermine the general notions of philanthropy. He begins by attending a conference called Making Money Make Change, and discovers that many people are struggling with how to align their privilege with their politics. One participant even admits that , "I feel really scared when a working class person challenges me, but I feel fine if another wealthy person does." It's great to see someone being honest and thoughtful about these issues, instead of simply romanticizing poverty. This is a well-constructed zine, with extensive bibliography/source listings.

The classic crust punk zine returns from the ashes! Six months in the making, this double issue packs a Skuld Releases anniversary CD, interviews with IMPERIAL LEATHER (Sweden), @PATIA NO (Venezuela), RUIN (UK), SICK TERROR (Brazil) and MASS GENOCIDE PROCESS (Czech). A retrospective on Skuld releases (with extensive discography information), a NAUSEA tour diary, a massive photo spread and summary on the second CLIT-Fest gathering, and Naked Maygun's Vegan Recipe guide round out this issue - plus tons of columns and reviews!

Profane Existence Magazine returns to the land of the living with another double issue. A year of material - with 11 band interviews - CHUMBAWAMBA, NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR, VISIONS OF WAR, SKARP, ABDUCTEE S.D., FALL OF EFRAFA, SIGNAL LOST, APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT, THE COOTERS, PISSCHRIST, and HAPPY BASTARDS. A Japan tour diary, G.W.'s gov't compared to European fascism circa 1930-40s, Maygun's Vegan Recipes, the Subwar Collective, Club Heretic, and information on CLIT Fest '07, the eviction and demolition Ungdomshuset "youth house" in Copenhagen, Denmark round out the issue - plus letters, columns, over 300 reviews, and some live band photos. Includes two CDs - a compilation CD to accompany each issue, featuring bands profiled in the zine and current anarcho-punk / crust bands worldwide.

The featured artist this issue, including a gallery and interview, is Fly. There are interviews with MISCHIEF BREW / Fistolo Records, HUMAN ERROR and INHASTE. Naked Maygun's Vegan Recipes section includes an expansive three page feature on Latin-American favorites, including Spanish translations for several recipes. Columns, letters, Ecomedia News, and tons of music and print reviews. This issue includes a CD compilation featuring a cross section of current political-punk bands.