ZINES

HOW TO

How To Bag

An awesome step-by-step guide to making your own custom stylin waterproof bookbag/bike messenger bag for less than $30. Meticulous illustrations guide the way to making this hand-sewn, well-designed bag.

Price: $2.00 2oz 20pgs In stock

Uncle Enos #1

A zine dedicated to the PrimRock/cigarbox guitar community, Uncle Enos describes how to build your own instruments from scratch. Includes interviews with artists and instrument makers, and a few music reviews.

Price: $3.00 2oz 58pgs In stock

The Trusty Wrench DIY Guide to Car Repair

This is a great starter manual for anyone that's interested in learning how to do basic maintenance on their car or truck. It covers what tools you need, and what the things are that you can do yourself. Includes a troubleshooting section to help you figure out what's wrong with your car. Covers both diesel and gas-powered vehicles.

Price: $3.00 1oz 23pgs In stock

The Gospel of Screenprinting

A detailed and well organized technical guide to making successful screenprints, this zine attempts to bridge the gap between commercial and DIY screenprinting. Written from years of trial and error, it goes through how to get set up with tools that will last. Includes instructions on how to build a vacuum table, and plans for a t-shirt press and exposure unit.

Price: $4.50 2oz 24pgs In stock

SEXUAL HEALTH

Hot Pantz: Do It Yourself Gynecology, Herbal Remedies

Like the first sentence of this zine declares, "Patriarchy sucks." This is a comprehensive beginner's guide to taking back your body, from the basics of figuring out what's going on down there to the how-to's of herbal remedies. STDs, menstruation, herbal therapy... it's all here.

Price: $2.00 2.25oz 48pgs In stock!

Fertility Awareness for Non-Invasive Birth Control

This is an amazing guide to Fertility Awareness, or, a form of birth control that is both chemical-free and self-empowering. This thick zine guides you through the use of herbs and the process of paying attention to and understanding your cycle to prevent pregnancy. A must-have for anyone who really wants to get down-and-dirty with fertility.

Price: $3.00 3.75oz 80pgs In stock

COOKING

The Frugal Vegan's Harvest and Holiday Survival Guide

A huge vegan cookbook and crafty resource! The Survival Guide includes recipes for your table and your pets, ideas for cheap crafts and inexpensive gifts, and even ways to keep warm and happy in the winter. A must have!

Price: $3.50 5oz 92pgs In stock

Wild Fermentation: A DIY Guide to Cultural Manipulation

Ferment your own food, from sauerkraut to yogurt to tempeh! This excellent guide leads you through the otherwise daunting task of creating delicacies such as kimchi or even cheese! Chock full of references and useful information on how to make healthy probiotic yummies.

Price: $2.00 2oz 32pgs In stock

PERZINES

Abort! zines

Started back in 2001, Jon writes thoughtfully, misanthropically, and sometimes hopefully about life, radical politics, and punk (not to be redundant or anything), often in Cometbus-style anecdotes with art and the occasional guest writer interspersed throughout. A solid, smart, and often funny zine (fuck what MRR says!) thats a real good read, written by someone I cant even believe Im related to. Select an issue to find out more or add it to your cart.

Postcards from a Ghost Town: Old Weird America #1

A collection of short stories and vignettes from the old weird place that is Detroit. Part memoir, the stories weave in and out of different lives and dashed dreams with rich imagery.

Price: $2.50 2oz 32pgs In stock

Flight Square 3: The Old Grand Dad X-Mas Special

True stories of a visit to the grandparents, with quietly funny reflections on life and aging. Comes with Sasha's trademark drawings of the people and places in the story.

Price: $0.75 1oz 16pgs In stock--Only 1 left!

Flight Square 2: Beware of the Dog

Sasha is back with a second volume of her perzine. Funny-but-true stories of odd jobs and strange travels, with illustrated portraits and maps of favorite locales.

Price: $1.50 1.25oz 25pgs In stock

Flight Square

A short story by Sasha Pearl, writer of Snaggletooth. Replete with floorplan drawings of favorite hangouts, portraits of friends, and chess diagrams, this is the story of loneliness and longing in smalltown, USA. A great perzine.

Price: $1.50 2oz 20pgs In stock

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