At long last, it’s here! For the past 3-4 years, we’ve been trying to get this book out with one press or another, but finally Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness has put out The Super-Happy Anarcho Fun Book! This book is 224 pages of hand-drawn comics, that appeared in zine form as well as illustrations for The Earth First! Journal, the Indypendent Reader, and elsewhere.

My friend Suzanne is a silkscreener in Baltimore and has started making tshirts of some of my designs! She sells them on her etsy.

I just approved the proof copy of Being the Explorations #6, my second full-size photo book in this series. (The last one was Being the Explorations #5, which covers all of my wandering in 2011). I’m enormously proud of these books. They’re definitely the closest thing to a journal that I keep. The most recent book includes lots of my photos from 2010, 2008, 2002, and 1999-2000. I’ll put the whole thing up for free download when the book gets back from the printer.

It’s steampunk week on Tor.com, and I have the first post: Boldly Into Our Patina’d Future: How Steampunk Can (Help) Save the World.

It starts:

Steampunk is, in part at least, a re-envisioning of humanity’s interaction with the things that we make and how we make them. It’s a non-luddite critique of technology that says “Hey, you’re doing it wrong” without trying to eschew technology outright. And that critique is sorely, sorely needed, now more than ever.

We live in a civilization built on an insane and compulsive relationship with technology. Industrialized production creates objects and hopes for demand instead of making things as they are needed or desired. This is backwards and dangerous. It overtaxes our resources—hell, it treats the Earth and all the wonders within it as “resources” instead of beautiful and unique things—and is directly responsible for desertification, global warming, deforestation, mass extinction, mountaintop removal, and any number of grievous crimes against the natural world. It’s economically insane, too. It’s led us to the place where our economy requires growth in order to remain stable. And by producing without regard for demand, we’re stuck with boom-and-bust cycles that drive all but the richest among us further into poverty.

And you know what else? It’s boring. Monoculture is banal. Not only do all the cars look more or less the same, we’re all only using cars to get around. People talk about flying cars sometimes but all I want is to get across the country on a zeppelin powered by passive solar technology. Is that so much to ask?

Read the rest on Tor.com

Along with my brilliant co-editors Kate Khatib and Mike McGuire, I’ve been working on this book We Are Many: Critical Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation for the whole of 2012. And it comes out this weekend. I’m incredibly proud of it.

I’m proud of it because it, like the Occupy movement itself, is inspiring and diverse, with contributors who are academics, activists, creatives, and just people who were swept up by the movement. What sets this book aside from all the Occupy books coming out is that this book contains contributions pretty much exclusively from folks who were a part of the movement. This is not some book written by professional activists or theoreticians standing aside trying to tell of us what to do. This book was written by people who were at the general assemblies and general strikes. I was particularly happy to work with folks who aren’t professional writers to get their movement stories included.

It’s got Molly Crabapple and Unwoman alongside David Graeber and CrimethInc. It’s got insurrection from Bay of Rage and it’s got Cindy Milstein tying occupy anarchism back to the anti-globalization movement.

Anyhow, it’s out this weekend. I’ll be doing two events in Minneapolis for its release: one at the University of Minnesota Thursday, Sep 13 at 6:30, Blegen Hall – room 150, the other is Sep 15, 5pm at the Twin Cities Anarchist Bookfair. Only the latter will actually have copies of the book, sadly.

Look at me trying to be clever for a camera!

So we’ve been working on A Steampunk’s Guide to Sex for months now and we’re at the point where we’re looking to find the funding to print it. So we put up a kickstarter.

This is the first time anyone will have a chance to buy the tintypes I’ve been making, what’s more.

Anyhow, I’m really excited about this project. The people writing for it are really damn smart… Professor Calamity seems to know and have access to an immense amount of information on all things 19th century, even stuff that isn’t on the internet. And Alan Moore is one of the smartest wingnuts I’ve ever spoken with, so he’s got amazing shit to say. Luna writes what she knows and does it well, and Miriam Roček has a way with words I’ve never before encountered. Hell yeah.

My first professionally published comic story is out! I wrote the story “I Am Damned” for the 2ombies anthology put out by Accent UK. In the states your best bet for buying it is probably from Forbidden Planet.

My story was illustrated by the incredibly talented Fanny M Bystedt from Sweden. The story follows anarcho-punk squatters in Amsterdam after the zombie apocalypse. Good stuff.