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July Distro Update

What's New

Bravery on a Bus (Zine) ($6)- Our feature of the month! An amazingly written zine about volunteer work and travels in Tanzania. …

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 13, 2012 at 1:57am — No Comments

Bravery on a Bus

Our featured item of the month is the brand new zine from Olympia writer Alicia LeDuc. It's called Bravery on a Bus and is about her travels and work in Tanzania. Highly recommended!…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 3, 2012 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

New I Love Bad Movies (and more)!

The always-wonderful I Love Bad Movies is back with a new issue!

"A fantastic new issue of I Love Bad Movies, the movie review zine that is as hilarious as it is well-written and…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 25, 2012 at 5:40pm — No Comments

So, just did inventory and found that we're down to the last copy or two of quite a lot of things (and found a lot of things we thought we were out of, too!). Many of which we might not see again. So, here's a list of some last chance items:…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 12, 2012 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Huge Restock! (and a bunch of new stuff, too)

Many things are coming back our way. Some of it has been coming in the mail and some of it has come from spending long hours at the copy shop, but either way we're happy about it. Among these:

The Prince Zine!-…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 27, 2012 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Distro Update for May!

After a weird last few weeks, where we had an astounding run on Gina's zine Shit's Fucked: A Positivity Guide, just from a…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 17, 2012 at 12:10pm — No Comments

April Distro Update

Newness

Frida Kahlo Card (Postcard/Notecard) ($1.50)- A hand-printed stencil art image of Frida Kahlo. Made by (Olympia’s own) Sage, from the long-running Sweet Candy Distro. …

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on April 6, 2012 at 2:30am — No Comments

New issue of Ilse Content!

So excited to get some words from our dear ex-pat (and everybody's favorite zinester) Alexis Wolf. Passing along moments of beauty from her travels.

Ilse Content, Vol. 11

"Written in…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on April 4, 2012 at 1:40am — No Comments

Just In! Shape & Situate #3 & Nuts 6-9

Just in today: A new issue of Shape & Situate! Which is one of the few zines we bring in from outside the U.S.. But it's just so good! We also got three new issues of the Olympia punk newsprint zine, Nuts. Which we've heard is huge in Japan. Go figure.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on March 27, 2012 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Without Words & Without Kneeling

Tomas Moniz's 12 part serialized zine novella is now complete! We just got the three newest issues and they are awesome. Really ambitious zine project and we're totally proud of him.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on March 19, 2012 at 5:44pm — No Comments

New Issue of Rad Dad (+ the Rad Dad book)

Just picked up these new Rad Dads yesterday. As always, totally awesome.

Rad Dad #21

"Another issue of Rad Dad- the awesome, long-running zine on radical parenting. This issue has a focus on the Occupy…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on March 10, 2012 at 2:15pm — No Comments

March's Distro Update!

NEW

Cow Card (Greeting Card) ($3)- An offset print cow card. Blank inside with fun cow facts on the back.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on March 6, 2012 at 2:00am — No Comments

Mend My Dress (the book!)

The long-running Mend My Dress zine has been anthologized into a book! Just released this week on the new Mend…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on March 3, 2012 at 12:28pm — No Comments

(did we forget to mention?) New issue of Truckface!

Just restocked the new issue of Truckface, which we picked up a month or two ago and realized maybe we didn't make a big enough deal out of it! It's been one of our bestselling zines of the new year and we can't say enough good…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on March 2, 2012 at 3:54pm — No Comments

Big Restock

Finally getting around to restocking some stuff, after getting cleared out in the holiday/new year rush. Here's a list of some recent re-arrivals...

2012 Organizer from Justseeds & Eberhardt Press (Planner) ($8)

Awkward Sex (Zine) ($4)…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on February 28, 2012 at 12:00am — No Comments

January Distro Update

NEW!

Erosion #4 (Zine) ($1)- In the tradition of great variety zines, Erosion covers a lot of ground. The kind of zine you don't see around much anymore.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on January 13, 2012 at 4:00am — No Comments

Bestsellers 2011!

Zine Top 15

1. Shit's Fucked: A Positivity Guide

2. The Prince Zine

3.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on January 4, 2012 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Ilse Content, back in print

Our dear long-time collaborator, Alexis Wolf, moved to France in September and her amazing zine, Ilse Content, has been going out of print like crazy ever since! Luckily, she left us with the originals, should this situation come to pass, and we finally got around to reprinting a couple today. If you have…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on December 28, 2011 at 1:39am — No Comments

December Distro Update

New

2012 We Are Bleeding Menstrual Calendar (Calendar) ($18)- A wonderful way to “start understanding your monthly cycle better, to keep track of ovulations, and to follow the moons patterns in…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on December 8, 2011 at 8:18pm — No Comments

November Distro Update!

New!

2012 Justseeds/Eberhardt Organizer (Planner) ($8)- This gorgeous little planner is a perennial favorite. With beautiful art from the Justseeds arts…