Reading Frenzy ~ An Independent Press Emporium

New Arrivals & Restocked Magazines for October!

  • 2600 ~ The Hacker Quarterly

  • 3x3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration

  • Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism

  • American Short Fiction

  • Bidoun ~ Art & Culture from the Middle East

  • Bitch ~ Feminist Response to Pop Culture

  • Broken Pencil

  • Bust

  • C Magazine: International Contemporary Art

  • Cabinet ~ A Quarterly of Art & Culture

  • Clutter ~ Like Toys? Love Clutter

  • Design Issues ~ History, Theory, Criticism

  • Dossier

  • Elephant ~ The Art & Visual Culture Magazine

  • Fourteen Hills

  • Grey Room

  • Juxtapoz

  • Komfort Mag

  • Lab

  • Lapham's Quarterly ~ a Magazine of History and Ideas

  • Make/Shift ~ Feminism in Motion

  • Outpost Journal

  • Paris Review

  • Print ~ Redefining Design

  • Raw Vision ~ Outsider, Brut, Folk, Naive, Intuitive, Visionary

  • Selvedge

  • Shots ~ Independent & Reader-Supported Journal of Photography

  • Signal to Noise ~ The Biannual Journal of Improvised, Experimental & Unusual Music

  • Tape Op ~ The Creative Recoring Magazine

  • Tiki Magazine ~ Celebrating the "Island" Lifestyle

  • Under the Radar ~ The Solution to Music Pollution

  • Wax Poetics

  • Zoetrope

Portland Zine Symposium Poster Art Call 2013!

October 22, 2012: FROM PORTLAND ZINE SYMPOSIUM: The Portland Zine Symposium is looking for art submissions for the 2013 poster. This year's theme is "Portland Zine Symposium 2013: Luck of the Zine." Your art submission should be your creative interpretation of that theme.

We encourage artists to use any medium or style. We strongly prefer that the chosen artist is able to assist us in the process of transferring (resizing / cropping / etc) the image multiple mediums.

The formatting guidelines are simple:

  • We are looking for a 11" wide x 17" tall poster that will also be used in other formats (the website, post cards, buttons, stickers, etc), so your design needs to be visible and striking at multiple sizes and resolutions (or have smaller, breakaway pieces).

  • Only 3 colors! The design will eventually be silk screened / screen printed onto t-shirts, so limit your colors to black, white and one other color.

  • If your artwork is chosen, be prepared to help make breakaway pieces for the sticker, buttons and postcard designs.

Your design should include (or be able to include once all details are finalized) the following:

  • The Theme - "Portland Zine Symposium 2013: Luck of the Zine!"

  • The Dates - TBA (for now)

  • The Place - TBA (for now)

  • The Website - www.pdxzines.com

  • "13th Annual Portland Zine Symposium" and the year "2013"

  • "A conference and zine social exploring facets of independent publishing and DIY culture."

Submission deadline is December 16th.

Submissions can be emailed to  (most strongly preferred) or mailed (1322 N Killingsworth Portland, Oregon 97217).

We can't wait to see what you come up with!

October New and Notable Arrivals!

BOOKS

  • Banksy: You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat

  • Cabinets of Wonder

  • Daydream: Keiichi Tanaami
  • From Ummmm to Der

  • Hello Kitty, Hello Art!
  • Idyll

  • L'Invasion De Paris

  • Paper Works

  • Quoteskine Vol. 1

  • Rookie Yearbook One

  • Sex Press

  • The Where The Why and The How

  • Wild Fermentation

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

  • 32 Stories: Mini Box Set

  • Acme Novelty Library #20

  • Big Questions

  • Birdseye Bristoe

  • Catland Empire

  • Crickets #1

  • Gloriana

  • Hark! A Vagrant!

  • Klaus

  • Lose #4

  • New York Drawings

  • Optic Nerve 12

  • Root Rot

  • Scenes From an Impending Marriage

  • The Carter Family

  • The Cavalier Mr. Thompson

  • The Crackle of Frost

  • The Infinite Wait

  • Unterzakhn
  • Wax Cross

KID'S BOOKS

  • Anna and Froga

  • Gigi Has Lost his Cap

  • The Girl in Red  

  • The Green Conjurer

  • Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword

  • The Hunting of the Snark

  • Moomin: The Complete Comics #1

  • Moomin: The Complete Comics #2 

  • Moomin: The Complete Comics #3  

  • Who Will Comfort Toffle?                                                                                           

MAGAZINES & ZINES

  • Bitch #56

  • Bust #77

  • Cabinet #46

  • Chainbreaker #5

  • Cometbus #51

  • Cometbus #52

  • Cometbus #53

  • Cometbus #54

  • Dice #46