Independent Publishing Resource Center

In addition to joining as a member, you can also contribute to the IPRC by joining the Zine of the Month Club.  For the (newly-lowered) rate of $30 for six months or $50 for a full year you can get a new handpicked zine delivered to the mailbox of your choice every single month!

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Check out some of the recent Zines of the Month below:

“I’ve been living in Portland, Oregon for 8 months.  Before I moved here, everyone told me it was the best city ever.  When I asked them why, they couldn’t be specific.  I heard a lot of: ‘It just is.’

This is my attempt to be specific.

Not all of the things listed here are exclusive to Portland, but together, they’ll give you an idea of how Portland makes me feel.  This feeling will hopefully answer the question:  is Portland, hands down, the best city ever?”

-Alexander Barrett

To see more of Alexander’s work please visit:  www.alexanderbarrett.com

The Black Panthers have a rich and important history in Portland—this new illustrated pamphlet from the Dill Pickle Club tells their story. Artist Khris Soden and writer Sarah Mirk are proud to debut the fourth installment in their continuing series after spending months researching, writing and drawing the 40-page work.

OHC is a series of 10 short graphic books telling little-known stories from our state and city’s history. The series will present illuminating, marginalized and quirky accounts of local history in an accessible medium, engaging history fans and the public at large in learning about Portland’s past and present.

To learn more please visit:  www.dillpickleclub.org

“Toes Caked in Cake and Blood and Grape” is a zine of words and pictures by Thom May. You can see some more pictures at his website, bridgewindsoup.com, where you can also order his new booklet of the same style and length, called “soup’s on! piping hot!”

Portland Afoot is a 10-minute monthly newsmagazine about low-car life in PDX, publishing since June 2010. Their cover stories rank the employers with the best commuting benefits, break down the best places to sit on the MAX and profile couples who met on TriMet. Their website, PortlandAfoot.org, is an editable guide to low-car life; it’s got ever-evolving pages on local bike laws, TriMet’s budget situation and the best places to live in Portland without a car.

For more information visit http://portlandafoot.org.

Nathan Wade Carter lives in Portland, Oregon and hails from Missoula, Montana. Carter makes drawings, zines, flip books, buttons, bookmarks, & the occasional pencil bag. He has played music as Purrbot since 2004. The new album, Warm Gold, was release earlier this year. He writes a personal mail zine called “Will You Marry Me _____?”

“Please Keep Sharing” is Chaper One of Carter’s on-going memoir/memory zine. Carter did not set out to write a memoir, but he embraced the chance to share his story & experiences. Chapter One is a fairly standard birth & childhood narrative. Subsequent chapters will touch on more difficult topics: Parents, divorce, small towns, growing up queer, moving, sex, dating, death, family. All the good stuff.

Email: purrbot@gmail.com
Website: http://www.nathanwadecarter.com
Blog: http://purry.tumblr.com
Buy zines here: http://willyoumarryme.etsy.com

Patrick Devine is an alleged cartoonist who lives in the Pacific Northwest. He maintains the blog spacepiratejack.blogspot.com and thinks that octopuses are awesome.

Virginia Paine has been making comics for about three years and zines for a little bit longer than that. She lives in Portland with her partner and their two cats, who are named after characters from the “His Dark Materials” trilogy.

No More Bummers is a five part compendium documenting the embellished wanderings of a young person across three continents, various metropolises, and many public transportation systems; all accomplished while traversing the peaks and valleys of your basic emotional spectrum.  Full of half-truths, mild epiphanies, and sincere curiosity, with an emphasis placed on conveying the beauty or sadness of particular moments, rather than the usual narrative arc.  With a different visual artist for each installment.

Alyssa Duhe is a graphic designing non-stop doodler who believes in the power of a smile. Her passions are art, skateboarding and saving the environment one step at a time. She spends most of her time laughing, climbing trees and making zines and screen printing.