![]() Among Microcosm’s bestsellers are such titles as Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills (106,000 copies sold), Wild Fermentation: A Cultural Guide to Do It Yourself Cultural Manipulation (45,000 copies), Zinester’s Guide to Portland (74,000 copies) and Making Stuff and Doing Things (27,000 copies). They aren’t trying to turn us into a boring conventional publishing house,” he said. “Legato is the first distributor that understands us. Founded in 1996, Portland, Oregon-based Microcosm Publishing & Distribution is an independent, midlist publishing house that equips readers to make positive. Legato has already affected the Microcosm frontlist: “We’ve seen a 900% increase in advance sales of our frontlist,” Biel said, with a focus on the backlist coming next. ![]() ![]() Only about 5% of the company’s sales come from the bookstore market, so Biel is focused on raising its profile-and revenue-in conventional bookstores, a goal that prompted the move to Legato in 2014. ![]() It gets pre-sales up and gets fans involved,” he said.īiel has said that “the underground is bigger than the mainstream” when it comes to Microcosm titles. “Kickstarter is a movement building tool that helps you create buzz around new books. The house also regularly uses Kickstarter to fund titles. Biel was interviewed while attending the Oklahoma Bike Summit, a bicycling advocacy event, and he brought along about 150 Microcosm books to sell to the 500 attendees. The company has also been innovative in finding new markets. Today, the house has evolved into an eclectic but growing indie book publisher, publishing a range of books (and graphic novels) on alternative culture, environmentalism, history, and feminism. The house first published zines on punk rock and distributed zines, books, T-shirts, and alternative cultural manifestos to a network of retailers that include record stores, bike shops, clothing shops, and festivals. They in turn work to support the whole community. A partnership with Microcosm Publishing has helped sustain and extend the outreach of XD since 2008. Weve even been described as the PBS of review zines. Other books coming in 2016 include Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking by Anne Elizabeth Moore, a work of graphic nonfiction about the connections between the global fashion market and the sex trade, featuring such comics artists as Leela Corman and Ellen Lindner Urban Revolutions: A Woman’s Guide to Two-Wheeled Transportation by Emilie Bahr, a look at women and biking in Portland and The Post-structuralist Vulva Coloring Book by Meggyn Pomerleau.īiel founded Microcosm in 1996, in his bedroom. Weve been partying like it is 1999 since.well, 1999. I only heard words I could not detect facial cues.” Recalling a failed marriage, years of frustration, and emotional conflict with friends and family, he said, “You know you’re different, but you don’t know why.” Biel spent three years working with a cognitive behavior specialist to learn how to “mimic neuro-typical people.” The book details Biel’s diagnosis (at the age of 32) of Asperger’s syndrome, 15 years after he founded Microcosm, and offers his story of building a company despite being “inflexible and difficult.” As he explained, “for most of my working life, my Asperger’s made it much more difficult to have relationships with my coworkers. We are excited by the many opportunities presented by innovative developing technologies, such as the use of augmented reality (AR) or the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on art and art publishing.Microcosm will release about 20 titles in 2016, including Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Asperger’s, by Biel, a memoir and business book. Since its establishment in 2004, Anteism has nurtured a unique publishing ethos that embraces new developments in print. With a bookbindery studio nearby, we also hosts residencies with artists producing book works. Locally in Montreal, Anteism operates a 4000sq/ft interdisciplinary project space where we host community arts activities, exhibitions, and events with programming which revolves largely around local publication, visual, new media, and performing arts. T-Shirts Microcosm Publishing Log In Sign Up Home / Catalog / T-Shirts + Subjects Select: Single Multiple Activism Art and Design Bike Feminism Geeky History Humor Microcosm Published Punk Science Transportation T-Shirts Chainring Heart by Joe Biel Author and Aaron Renier Author The image that started it all. Our history of collaboration is eclectic and wide-ranging, encompassing emerging practitioners in art and publishing along with internationally known artists local collectives and art centres, as well as important international galleries. Anteism Books focuses on special editions exploring diverse artistic and cultural practices: artist monographs, artist books, exhibition catalogues, and other formats.
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