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Parcell Press

one of my favorite zine distros currently operating. send taylor a little business, he's got a good thing going.

what?

Parcell Press is an independent publisher and distributor of printed matter. This primarily includes zines but also independently-published books and comics. Parcell Press developed in December 2003 by me, Taylor, as an umbrella project for my own continued zine and publishing pursuits. I really wanted to create a project through which I could promote zines and get them into new hands, educate people about zines, help the zine community sustain itself, and challenge zinesters and readers to consider zines a more valid artform. So, through Parcell Press I sell zines retail to readers and wholesale to retailers in addition to publishing some zines with the Parcell Press imprint. The name was derived from my first house in Fredericksburg, which was on Parcell Street. Don't mistake it for 'parcel' or we'll both feel awkward.

why?

The goals of Parcell Press were formed in an attempt to provide a central avenue through which zinesters and zine readers can communicate, sell and buy publications, and have access to resources and work that may or may not be within their own niche in the world of underground publishing. Additionally, this project was launched with zinesters in mind: to provide a cheap, easy, and accessible catalog through which their zines can reach a wider audience.

who?

Parcell Press is run by me, Taylor, with the occassional help and support of friends. I've been involved with the zine community for at least ten years and don't intend to retire. I like slow-goings and good stories, jokes and productivity. I'm educated in the softest of the humanities (English literature) but I have an affinity for all sorts of cultural studies and often fancy myself a freehand participant observer. My current obsession is places. I'm fond of correspondence and would love to hear from you. I would also love it if you read my zine, which you can buy in the Parcell Press catalog.

where?

I grew up in Virginia Beach, sun-soaked, wet, and busy. I started Parcell Press in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where I lived for four enjoying the comfort and closeness of a small town, working out of the closet in the basement bedroom of a tall house downtown. I then ran Parcell Press full-time out of a little house in Old West Durham, North Carolina for about six months before missing Virginia so much that I returned to Richmond, where I now operate Parcell Press out of a weird carriage-house garage loft in the beautiful Fan District. Come say hi!

what else?

My hope and aspiration is for Parcell Press to become a sustainable endeavor for my various projects and to influence, support, and reflect the efforts of a strong community of creative, progressive, talented voices.

If you'd like to read more, please visit the following links to read interviews with me or articles about Parcell Press:
Interview on fellow student's website

Maytina of VirusZine.com -- an independent culture magazine based in Canada -- just relaunched her website and posted a very nice article/interview with me regarding Parcell Press and zines in general. Go check it out!

Dug this up on the internet this evening:

this is from April 4th, 1998
link leads to the artist's site

Evergreen Infoshoppe Gets A Firm Foothold in 2007

This gang of ass-kicking rebel Evergreeners have been working at this for a few years now and it seems they've gotten it off the ground! Nice work everybody. Let us know how we can better knit The Infoshoppe, Last Word and the 'Zine Library together. I'll pop in and check out your new pad one of these days. - Sky


Earlier this month, a student-run non-profit infoshop celebrated its grand opening at The Evergreen State College (TESC) in Olympia, Washington. Using the guise of a state funded student group, volunteers of The Evergreen Infoshoppe were allotted over $4,000 to purchase radical books, zines, and videos for their lending library and resource center. After only a few weeks of planning, the Infoshoppe now hosts an ever-growing collection in a permanent, centrally located and nearly autonomous location.

Anarchist Kids Stories

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Fertile Ground Zine

Fertile Ground is a quarterly zine for people who dig parenting. It is 44 pages, half size and is $2 per issue. A one year subscription is $8. To order, Paypal (no credit cards, please) stacey@fertilegroundzine.com. If you do not have Paypal, you can send cash or a check (made out to Stacey Greenberg) to:
2084 Court Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104

An Anarchist 'Zine About Pirates?!?!?!?!?!!

arrrgh! why didn't we not know about this one before, laddies? spoil me ear-drummies any more wit silence and I'll keel haul every last one 'o ye!

We're still here!

Just quiet online, at least on this site.

Library is up and running, however dysfunctional. Are libraries always doomed to frenetic volunteers and the randominity of phases which its runner dash betwixt?

most zinesters I know collect and write and rarely read, which is fine I suppose, if you're addicted to the dewey decimal system... you fucking weirdo...

Pirate Papa: A Journal of Anarcho-Green D.I.Y. Parenting

From the review on Northwest Zineworks, thanks to Caroline Tigeress, keepin things real in Longview, Washington. I think it's funny she thinks I'm thirty something when I'm really barely 24. Hee hee hee. More ass-kickin' localoly zines to be reviewed soon!

A hefty Papazine, Pirate Papa covers sane parenting techniques, but oh-so-much more. Sky Cosby’s work came to us via The Portland Zine Symposium 2006 and we’re not the same. His blunt, in-your-face no-frills, parenting zine is a straight lift from his blog Pirate Papa formatted nicely into a half-sized zine. Pirate Papa is much more than any sort of parenting zine though, it’s about the adventure that is parenting. Pirate Papa doesn’t just gloss over the happy crap. Because he’s taking it all in from the thirtysomething perspective you get the understanding that Sky understands the value of work that us momma creatures already knew was out there. The difference is Sky honors it, and Sky nurtures it. He tries to be aware of what’s going on AS it’s going on, and that makes all the difference. Sky’s reference material is long, longer than anyone could ever have imagined, and we are better because of it – the back pages of his zine are long lists of links – good stuff to know not just for the parent, but for the parent to be. Full of cool recipies (crepes…mmm…crepes…) short little blurts (notes on a gay daddy’s blog who lives in a red state) to an in-depth examination about how his daughter’s neurons are firing as they learn the things of life. This is a parenting zine not to be missed.

45 pages, $5.00 - shoot me off an e-mail to: sky.cosby(at)gmail.com, slap the money in the mail and I'll pick up the postage!

9/11 The Myth - The Reality: Were explosives used in the twin towers? What exactly happened that day?

A Talk by David Ray Griffin

Haven't found a transcription of this yet, but evidently wrongo@gmail.com has one. Here's a link to the audio version I dug up. This guy is very methodical and interesting in his presentation of the material, regardless of what you choose to believe regarding this still highly controversial issue. Too bad anyone with any questions is immediately supressed or called an unpatriotic nutjob.

Stories Care Forgot

Last Word is hosting the "Stories Care Forgot" book/zine tour on March 16th. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many of the original zines collected in this anthology were lost or destroyed, and this may be your only opportunity to see them.

On the Poverty of Student Life

considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual, and particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest proposal for its remedy

by members of the internationale situationniste and students of strasbourg

One of the ones that started it all in Paris back in '68. A must-read for the burgeoning radical.

The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy

An excellent little 'zine by Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans from 1998. This one's available from AK Press and is thankfully fairly widespread, at least amongst the underground circuits of This Great Nation. Published by Agit Press as part of the Prison Activist Resource Center pamphlet series, contact parc@prisonactivist.org for more information