Independent Publishing Resource Center

Our first year comic’s certificate program anthology can be yours for just $5! Order now!

during bygone eras, it was impossible to attend readings by nine of the Portland zine universe’s most massive satellites in a single evening. . . in the intimacy of your own sitting room. . . with only you in the audience. you used to have to use up most of your personal resources, time, and brain capacity just to get to a giant smelly room packed wall to wall with noisy children in the hopes that you might glimpse the greatness of only one megastar zinester. friends, you may banish those dark days from your memory, thanks to the IPRC Audiozine. Vol. Two is now available, and it features the voices of Artnoose (Kerbloom!), Bill & Allie Donahue (biff), Paul Nama (Adventures of Corpritboy), Sarah Contrary (Glossolalia), Pete Jordan (Dishwasher), Jazz McGinnis (Camojacket), Aria Joughin (Confessions of an Urban Hillbilly), Dan Hack (The Faithful), and Kate Hass (Miranda), all reading from their own work. Put on headphones and it’s like they’re orating directly into your brain!

available at the IPRC for just $10! Come ‘n get it!Order now!

We know that when the sky starts blue-ing up you’re gonna miss the grey. . . but don’t think you can’t have the best of the spectrum all at once!  These 100% cotton tees not only come stormy shades (the men’s cut is heather, the women’s is pigment), they also feature our heart-with-wings logo and were printed in-house at the IPRC!

$12 various sizes in stock.

Come by the center and pick one up today! Order now!

Join us for the IPRC’s next creative odyssey:  a year-long certificate program in Independent Publishing.  Participants choose between one of three tracks– 1) Fiction/Nonfiction, 2) Poetry, or 3) Comics/Graphic Novels–and spend between two and three semesters creating and publishing their work.

We’re pleased to announce that an academic credit option is available through a partnership with the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon. This is 3 credits per quarter term, AAA 408 or AAA 508. To explore the credit option through the University of Oregon, please click here.  Only students officially accepted into the IPRC’s Certificate Program can choose this option.

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Tonight Alex Wrekk released issues 24 and 25 of her epic zine Brainscan.

There was a lovely crowd in attendance and an open mic followed the event.

more photos at our flickr page

Give the gift of learning for the holidays. You can purchase a gift certificate at the IPRC for any amount that can go towards any future IPRC workshop. Perhaps your best friend wants to take letterpress or your daughter wants to learn InDesign. Email iprcworkshops@gmail.com or stop by the IPRC for more details.

The results are in! Hold on to your masks!

First Place: Becca
Second Place: (Tied) Luna and Matthew
Third Place: Joel
Honorary Mention: Patrick

Here are some examples!

Our hosts!

Justin:

Moe (on the far left):

Some of our participants and our guest judge Carrot Quinn (on the far right):

Check them out here!

This summer’s first Print Camp was a huge success. Each participant learned Letterpress, Relief Printing, Altered Books and Mimeograph.

We are hoping to offer a Book Arts Camp in the fall with a focus on creative zine binding. Stay tuned in to find out more.

Thanks to Debbie, Dan, Jake, Katie and Ashley for being awesome print resources!

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