This just in! One of the key community print shops in the US—Mission Gráfica in San Francisco—is putting together a book documenting its 40-year history. Written by Art Hazelwood, a…
The Hillbillys: A Book For Children is “a deeply frustrated parable of exploitation and environmental destruction in the Appalachian region”…
For the past 3 years I’ve been working on an artist book about the red flag, and in particular the song of the same name, written by Jim Connell during…
A very cool new issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies was recently published about the intersection of anarchism and Indigenous politics and resistance. It’s open access, and all of…
Links to book reviews and author interviews!
Friends at the Centre de Documentació de l’Esquerra Independentista are putting together a fabulous book of the history of stickers as agit prop in the struggle for Catalan independence. They’re…
I am extremely excited to share Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex, a book I have been working on with Tara Betts, Sarah Ross, and the Prison…
I’m very excited that Laura Raicovich and Hyperallergic chose my new book, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, as one of their Top 25 Books of 2019! Here’s what they…
I was recently interviewed by design historian Steven Heller about my new book, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels. It’s been published on Design Observer, and is a quick and…
PM Press is collecting pre-orders via Kickstarter to help print the new edition of the killer adbusting book Advertising Shits In Your Head (originally published in the UK by Dog…
These seem to be boom times for independent science fiction publishing. Never in my lifetime have I seen such an explosion in the efforts of small publishers printing and distribution…
I’m so excited that my new book An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is gathering steam. This book has been 4 years in the making, with two earlier editions self-published…
The publisher of our Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, PM Press, is having a big sale this month, where you can get 40% off all issues…
Our friends at AK Press just let us know that there are still about 20 Sue Coe prints that are available FREE with a pre-order of Coe’s new book Zooicide!…
Last month Princeton Architectural Press published Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest, a timely collection of political posters responding to today’s issues and struggles. It’s a beautifully produced book, and…
I recently was invited by the rad Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis to decorate one of the tables they’ve set up in their new cafe and restaurant over-looking the bookstore….
In the rapidly-gentrifying and deeply self-satisfied cultural landscape of Portland, OR, there are few political institutions with any lengthy history of integrity. One of those is our colleague Charles, who…
Update (summer 2020): this research has grown to become a book! So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969–1979 will be available on West Virginia University…
I just got a copy in the mail of the Korean edition of my Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution! It has been in the works…
Our friends at Booklyn need your help! Have you heard of Booklyn? They are an amazing artist-book publisher and distributor that has been essential in the funding and distribution of…
Challenge racist narratives with a new book by David Pilgrim, founder & director of the Jim Crow Museum! Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum, is…
“no one is an expert in everything, but everyone is an expert in something” For the past couple years I’ve been facilitating Total Essential Knowledge events that use conversation and drawing…
Update (summer 2021): since writing this post in July of 2017, this research has grown to become a book! So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY…
Hey folks! I have just launched a kickstarter to turn the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” print series into an offset printed booklet. Here is the link!
For the past year Jesse Purcell and I have been working on a giant screenprinted book. What we ended up with is Capture the Flag. A meditation far…
Dog Section Press is currently crowd-funding for the printing costs of their next book: Advertising Shits In Your Head. You can back the project and help them get it to…
After being out of print for almost 20 years, Ad Astra Comics is reprinting Seth Tobocman’s seminal Lower East Side squatter graphic novel War in the Neighborhood. I remember getting…
Since May, Interference Archive has been hosting an exhibition of the collaborative work of Mobile Print Power (MPP). MPP is a mobile screen printing collective largely made up of immigrant-youth…
Many Justseeds-related publications are included in the current “flash exhibition” Protests in Print at the New York Public Library. Signal, the Librarians and Archivists to Palestine zine, and some Interference…
Alec and I are very excited that our latest issue of Signal is back from the printer and available here on Justseeds! We made a little promotional animation/video, and hope…
TOUR Join award-winning queer Asian-American poets, Kit Yan and Jess X. Chen (justseeds artist) on the Queer Heartache Summer Tour. Combining oceanic laughter, the violence of heartbreak, and the sorrow lost…
My old buddy Christopher Kardambikis caught up with me at the LA Art Book Fair last month to do an interview for his NYC-based Clocktower radio show Paper Cuts, devoted…
New York City Anarchist Book Fair to celebrate 10th anniversary, Sat., April 16, 2016 NEW YORK—In the decade since it debuted in 2007, the NYC Anarchist Book Fair has become…
In a Crimethinc. Ex Workers Collective podcast, an audio strike against a monotone world, “On the Chopping Block” a review of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. In episode #46: International Anarchist…
Call for art and article submissions: Sustaining Movements The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective (www.certaindays.org) is releasing its 16th calendar in the Fall of 2016. Over the…
I wasn’t able to pull together a Judging Books by Their Covers post this week, in part because I’m guest posting all week on the Our Comics, Ourselves tumblr site!…
Back in December the Ace Hotel in New York invited Interference Archive to fill a display case in their lobby. We decided we wanted to use the opportunity to place…
Our friend Charles at Eberhardt Press (who prints the fabulous Justseeds Organizers each year, and the new 3-Year Garden Journal) just sent me a small box of cool notebooks he…
Here’s Artnoose, friend of Justseeds and tireless, self-identified over-achiever letterpress whiz. Artnoose worked part-time in the Pittsburgh-based Justseeds office from 2011 through 2014, when she moved back to her native…
Here’s Interference Archive’s youngest volunteer (and Justseeds’ newest sprout) Asa Michigan MacPhee showing off the awesome new book/catalog that came out of the “Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation…
In 2002 I published a zine called Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices. It was a compilation of stories of people who had had an abortion. In 2004 I released…
Interference Archive is hard at work on its next project, a survey of comics from alternative perspectives entitled Our Comics, Ourselves. We’re putting out a publication to document and go…
Signal:03 got a really nice review a couple weeks back on Dubdog.com. Check it out HERE. And you can always pick up a copy of Signal from us HERE. And…
Streetopia Edited by Erick Lyle Due out from Booklyn in May! Preorder now and get 20% off! Just go to Buy.Booklyn.org; and enter the promo code: PRESTREET. After San Francisco’s…
Continuing with some of our “Best of” lists, we have a list from Josh, and surprise, surprise… its a book list! So from Josh MacPhee—10 Best Crime Novels I Read…
This winter, join Librarians and Archivists with Palestine for an exciting international reading campaign: “One Book, Many Communities: Mornings in Jenin.” The project draws inspiration from the “one book, one…
culturalorganizing.org recently posted a review of my book A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements. Here is…
I recently completed the art and cover design for an exciting new book by Nora Barrows-Friedman on the U.S. student movement for Palestine Solidarity including the rich history of Palestinian-American…
stencil by Gregory Sholette Here is another excerpt from A People’s Art History of the United States. This excerpt starts with the introduction to the chapter and then segues to…
W.D. Bickerknocker, author of a current zine in the Justseeds Store, was just interviewed in Maximum RocknRoll. Below is the beginning of the interview, click the link at the end…
SNCC poster, Is He Protecting You?, ca. 1963, Photograph by Danny Lyon (copyright Dany Lyon / Magnum Photos: image from Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and Radicalism…
The brand new issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture was just printed, and is now available on Justseeds. We’re really excited about it, and think…
This weekend is the Toronto Anarchist Fair there are so many activities and events. We will be at the book market Tomorrow Sunday Dec 15th. 55 Gould St. Toronto 10…
I always enjoy my visits to Booklyn. I had to deliver copies of Occuprint and the Justseeds Migration Now Portfolio and knew I’d get to stay for more. Marshall Weber,…
We’re excited to have just launched a new website for Interference Archive! To celebrate, we’ve got a guest post from Sean Stewart (of the amazing Babylon Falling website and author…
Jared Davidson (from Garage Collective, and designer of the Red Feds Celebrate People’s History poster) just put out a great looking new book on anarchism in NZ called Sewing Freedom….
NYC Book Release: Freedom Through Football: The story of the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls by Will Simpson & Malcolm McMahon Tuesday September 25th, 7pm Interference Archive 131 8th st. #4…
You can download the PDF here. I thought friends of Justseeds might be interested in the catalogue for ‘Lake-Effect: Rurality and Ecology in the Great Lakes.’ I have uploaded the…
Official book launch for Chris Stain’s latest project and Drago’s newest title – LONG STORY SHORT – at Wooster Street Social Club in NYC on March 14th, 2012. Buy the…
The new issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is now out in print. It can be read online HERE, but it is always fun to get a print copy,…
Every blue moon a truly exceptional book on art and activism is released. The latest one is Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons edited by Therese Quinn, John…
Thread Makes Blanket Press is getting ready to publish their first book, on the New Jewish Agenda! Peep this link to see how you can help. From Ezra Nepon, the…
I recently did a big design job for my friend Sean Stewart and PM Press, Sean’s new book On The Ground: An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press…
This past September, a new bookstore and hub for radical events opened up in Buffalo, New York: Burning Books. Hitting the ground running, they’ve already hosted a whole mess of…
Just saw this, Printed Matter is reissuing the amazing book GAAG, The Guerrilla Art Action Group, 1969-1976, which has been out of print for almost 30 years. There was a…
Those of us who normally run the shipping department here at Justseeds will all be in Europe for the next 3-5 weeks for a number of events and a little…
Our friends over at Groundswell Design Collective have been busy, and are part of a group producing a new journal called Scapegoat. The first issue is themed Service, and looks…
6th Annual Benefit Book Sale for Daniel McGowan Sunday, September 18th, 2011, 11am to 7pm, Bedford Avenue at North 6th Street in Brooklyn This just in from Family &…
The Art Threat blog has a great review of what looks like an amazing comic book called “Kenk: A Graphic Portrait“. The subject of the book is a highly unscrupulous…
Hello! I’m Caroline Paquita, a visual artist, musician, bee-keeper, and in general, a maker and “sharer” of things. I live and work out of Port Quincy, in Brooklyn, NY. After…
Here is a link to check out a book project about the uprising in Wisconsin. The book is edited by Erica Sagrans.
Featuring an array of archival documents and illustrations, Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill’s ashes in Aotearoa (New Zealand)—an easy-to-read account of censorship and radical labour during the First…
I recently got an email from the folks at the Chicago PIC (Prison Industrial Complex) Teaching Collective, and they’ve just put out a great zine called The PIC Is… The…
I just got a note from David Lester, his graphic novel The Listener just came out! I haven’t seen it yet, but it promises to be good. Here’s the basic…
Taylor Sparrow, a good friend of Justseeds, and the author of the introduction to our book Firebrands, is working on a new project. He’s trying to publish a new book…
Check out this sweet lil video that Nicki Sabalu made for Thurston Community Television in Olympia, Wa…they used shots of the covers of both my zine Chick Pea #4 (a…
My artwork is on the cover of the recent publication, Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color. The website explains: The challenges shaping the life…
There’s a thoughtful (and critical) review of the Justseeds collaborative book Firebrands on Ernesto Aguilar’s blog here. (It’s a great blog too!)
For the book lovers out there, check out John Duda and Kate Khatib’s great history of Charles H. Kerr, the oldest left publisher in the US! It’s published by AREA…
Wow, when Howard Zinn died, I knew we had lost a champion, but it never crossed my mind that he was the thin line that protected the thousands of people…
The building we know and love as ABC No Rio in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is set to be demolished to make room for the new, improved, not-falling-apart…
Jennifer A. Sandlin, Brian D. Schultz, and Jake Burdick have edited a very impressive study on radical practices in the public sphere which includes essays and interviews from Henry A….
My upcoming book collecting all of the Celebrate People’s History Posters and then some will be coming out on the Feminist Press in November! If you’re in NYC, show them…
I was given a copy of Studs Terkel’s Working: a graphic adaptation by an acquaintance from The New Press, last Summer. I gladly accepted the gift and expressed my intention…
Book artist and print maker Maureen Cummins, who is in the Paper Politics exhibition and book, recently put up a new site of her work HERE. There’s a lot of…
The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #7 is out now, and chock full of material that looks both interesting and is by a bunch of solid people that have been…
Critical Moment, a newsprint magazine working to provide a forum for education, debate, and dialogue around the political issues affecting communities in the Southeast Michigan area has used Amor Y…
I just recently designed a new logo for the Friends of AK Press book subscription program, I think it turned out pretty hot. AK Press is now pushing 20 years…
Mary Mack’s (that’s me!) Zine Collection, collected from 1993-present, will be on display in a cozy reading nook at Encyclopedia Destructica Studios. The zines will be available for browsing on…
Temporary Services and Half Letter Press have created a website for the project Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics. The site contains a PDF to download….
One of my collage images and an essay “United We Consume? Artists Trash Consumer Culture and Corporate Green Washing” is included in the recent book Critical Pedagogies of Consumption” Living…
Iain McIntyre and Breakdown Press have joined forces to release a book length collection of the greatest hits of Iain’s long running zine How to Make Trouble and Influence People….
My pal Erok & I sent some copies of Favianna Rodriguez and Josh Macphee’s book Reproduce and Revolt down to Chile about a year ago. Like many of the punks…
A new book about zines has been released by the folks who run TTC / Telefon Til Chefen, an art space in Copenhagen. This 200 pages book consists of material…
I was making out a list of books for a friend, and realized I could share it with all our blog readers. For those that don’t know, I’m both a…
Although not the normal sort of writing that appears on the JustSeeds website, I thought some of our readers may be interested in a recent column I wrote. The following…
My friend Tom Civil and his brother Ned (“Evil Brothers”) installed what looks to be an amazing cardboard ghost train at the There Goes the Neighbourhood exhibition at the Performance…
Jared Davidson/Garage Collective has put out possibly his last issue of Rivet, a journal o art and anarchism. Jared has been at the center of a number of political debates…
I used to play in a park across the street from the county jail while growing up. I vividly remember (when I was really young) heavily armed policeman guarding those…
I love books, the feel of them, the way they are made, how the spines bend and crack, and all of the amazing ideas and images that can fly out…
What If? A Journal of Radical Possibilities was a short running journal that started coming out soon after the WTO protests in Seattle 1999, and ran for a number of…
Marc Moscato just sent me a link to a great post he put up on his blog Whittlin’ Away. It’s on Art Front, a 1930s radical art publication from the…
Liberating Lipsticks and Lattes By COLIN MOYNIHAN Published: June 15, 2009 in the New York Times They arrived at the Barnes & Noble at Union Square in small groups on…
I came a cross some really beautiful images while looking for some visual references for a comment I wanted to post on Josh’s review of Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca. Photographer,…
If you look beyond the cover (with the image of the politician everyone has already forgotten about, I honestly can’t even remember her name right now…), the new issue of…
Recently Jesus and I connected with the folks at the ¡Presente!, the newspaper of the movement to close the School of the Americas (formerly known as the SOA Watch Update)….
One of my images is on the cover of the new Anarchist Studies journal, a publication that comes out of the UK. The issue is on “Post Anarchism” and is…
My friend Julia Christensen has been hard at work for years photographing and documenting what happens to giant big box walmarts and other monstrosities once they go out of business…
Issue #6 of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest just released! I’ve been reading the Journal from the get go, and always find something interesting in each issue. This one’s…
The Chicago-based art collective Temporary Services have just launched a new publishing outfit, Half Letter Press, and a new book, Public Phenomena. Here’s the blurb on the book: It is…
Overspray number 8 is now available through their store, or in whatever lucky little place you hope to find it! (Many independent bookstores and Barnes & Noble carry it) Overspray…
Identity Theory has published an interview that Favianna Rodriguez and I did about Reproduce & Revolt. You can read it here.
My friends from the Rhizome Collective, in Austin, TX, have just finished their guide on appropriate technology and sustainable living, Toolbox for Sustainable City Living. The Toolbox for Sustainable City…
Poster historian and archivist Lincoln Cushing has written a great review of a new book on the Taller Grafica Popular (TGP). The review, published in A Contra Corriente journal, can…
Erick Lyle recently wrote a great piece on Chris Carlsson’s new book Nowtopia for the SF Bay Guardian. Check it out. I haven’t had a chance to read the book…
Kyle Schlesinger, who a couple years back put together the cool self-published book Schablone Berlin with Caroline Koebel, has launched a new journal/periodical called Mimeo Mimeo. According to Kyle: Mimeo…
Justseeds member Kristine Virsis coordinated with the Team Colors crew to produce the accompanied image for their upcoming project “In the Middle of a Whirlwind” In the Middle of a…
An old friend from Chicago, Toufic El Rassi, just released his first graphic novel, Arab In America, on Last Gasp Press. I haven’t seen it yet (I went to buy…
Philadelphia artist Theodore A. Harris, who has been creating some of best political collage work for the past decade, has a new book out that he collaborated on with Amiri…
There are some super rad art history books out there that aren’t frequently taught in art history classes. Lots of them aren’t even known in the radical art circles within…
“The Subversive Imagination: The Artist, Society, and Social Responsibility” Edited by Carol Becker One of my favorite quotes from her is: “The more that is hidden and suppressed, the more…
The 2007 issue of the Journal of the California Society of Printmakers, “Prints in All the Wrong Places,” has just been released. This years issue is all about political printmaking,…
Ricardo Levins Morales, one of the main artists and organizers behind the Northland Poster Collective in Minneapolis has just released a great new collection of work in the form of…
I recently traveled to Argentina and Chile. My intention was to travel more in Chile and not Argentina, so I only spent 4 days in Buenos Aires before taking a…
AK Press just released Josh MacPhee and Erik Reuland survey of anarchist art, Realizing the Impossible. I got a copy yesterday and it’s a sprawling, exhilarating look at an under-examined…
The new issue of Left Turn is hot off the presses, with a beautiful cover by one of our favorite artists, Cristy Road. Left Turn is probably the best radical…
Crimethinc, those dreamy utopian anarcho-poets, have reprinted two excellent zines full of tips and information on graffiti and a whole lot more: The Walls Are Alive: A concise and masterfully…
ReAnimation: Magazine for Urban Environment is a new PDF zine designed by Martin Stiegler that explores street art and public space. Part of our zine on the how-to’s of street…
The fourth issue of Peel Zine is available. This issue covers artists like: ABOVE, Klutch, and 20mg. It contains articles about the StickerThrow04, StickyArt, the top entries in the Sticker…
Some Visual Resistance members put together a zine a few months back on the “how-to’s” of street art techniques. The zine is meant to provide folks with basic information on…
The good people at NYC’s best anarchist newspaper — the New York RAT — have put together a special issue of the paper just in time for Mayday: Our special…
Melina Rodrigo just released issue 10 of her zine, AW. You can view it on her website risewithus.com This issue examines life from the point of view from an American…
The long-awaited Wobblies! is finally here, and it’s even better than I could have expected. It’s easily the best recent book on the connection between art and radical politics, not…
We got word that The Icarus Project folks have a few new publications in the works… The Icarus Project’s new book, Underground Roots: Taproots and Topsoils is due out in…