What are your zine goals for 2010?

[Mab]

We're closing in on the end of the year and maybe it's a still a bit early to be thinking about New Year's resolutions and goals for next year. I don't really make New Year's resolutions anymore (I never keep them) but I do set goals, and I've been giving a lot of thought to what I want to do with zines in 2010.

Here are my zine goals for 2010:

~Put more effort into getting my zines out there via fliers, distros, trades, etc.
~Finally do that zine workshop I've been talking about
~Get better at HTML and learn CSS so I can make cool zine-related websites
~Experiment more with zine size and layout
~Do the 24 Hour Zine Thing again in July!

Does anyone else set zine goals like this? What are yours for the upcoming year?

[Mony Nunez]

-be finish with issue 4 of my zine called 'a guide to blissful solitude'
-work onthis separate comic zine thing for a friend. he's getting kinda depressed about shit again.
-eat more string cheese then right about how awesome it is in a zine!!
-of course, read more zines.
-write this zine pen-pal thing, althoughi have to get around to that laters.=/
-meet zinesters withing my area (CHI-TOWN!!!)

[Derek Neuland]

-Finish 3 more issues of All Things Ordinary before Portland Zine Symposium
-help with the Portland Zine Symposium
-Table at Chicago Zine Fest and Portland Zine Symposium
-complete collaborative zine project about bad house-mate stories
-buy a paper cutter
-finally become a member of the IPRC
-get my zines into stores and distros around the world
-get better at replying to mail more quickly
-start making my own envelope
-make a 24 hour zine in July

[Stephanos]

Get my first issue actually on paper and out to people
Research for another zine I have planned
Keep in touch with more people
Get hold of lots of zines from interesting distros
Work on getting my zine googlemap updated

[Mab]

Adding 2:

-promote my distro so there's something other than my zines and the two others I'm carrying for people to order come March 1st
-write that darn ferret zine I keep talking about! (titles anyone?)

[Mony Nunez]

Mab said:

Adding 2:

-promote my distro so there's something other than my zines and the two others I'm carrying for people to order come March 1st
-write that darn ferret zine I keep talking about! (titles anyone?)

whats this about ferrets? i like those little creatures.hah

[tukru perkele]

- write a rocknroll adventures of the past issue & a queer issue of YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL and not put an issue out before i'm at least 80% happy with it, no more rushing for zine fests etc.
- finish my cooking zine THE QUEEN IS FED
- get more organized with VAMPIRE SUSHI DISTRO and stop slacking.
- table at as many zine events as i can afford.
- maybe do another split zine with someone.
- BEAT TORTURE, a musical fanzine, two years in the making.. maybe 2010 is its year?

[Emma Jane Falconer]

Miss T- you still up for the medway split? I interviewed Billy Childish the other day about how he stands living in Chatham

miss tukru obscene said:

- write a rocknroll adventures of the past issue & a queer issue of YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL and not put an issue out before i'm at least 80% happy with it, no more rushing for zine fests etc.
- finish my cooking zine THE QUEEN IS FED
- get more organized with VAMPIRE SUSHI DISTRO and stop slacking.
- table at as many zine events as i can afford.
- maybe do another split zine with someone.
- BEAT TORTURE, a musical fanzine, two years in the making.. maybe 2010 is its year?

[Saling Pusa Distro/closed]

- get the Plunge website done
- collaborate with a good friend on an art/lit zine
- attend a zine fest
- get readership (hardest thing ever :<)
- fundraiser

[Harley R. Pageot]

Winter goals:
-finish Broken Manifesto, this 8-page quarter-zine that I'm making specifically to leave in public places and give away
-finish the first issue of my notebook archives series, covering my writing and drawing from age 5 to 16
-have Yard Sale! #4 out this February
-start a blog
-run a zine workshop in January
-run a kickass arts fair in March
-do my first public zine reading

Rest of the year goals:
-24-Hour Zine Thing
-zine tour (please and thank you?)
-maybe start a distro since I have five friends right now who are each making their own first zine
-zine-making slumber party
-attend every zine fair that's feasible

[Katie]

Yes to more ziney friends! Hi Raequel!

raequel aka systris said:

* finally sit down and DO ALL my zine projects in a timely manner so i dont end up pulling a zine out of my hind-parts at the last minute (before a zine fest or deadline)

* get my stuff into some stable distros that wont shutdown on me without notice and never send so much as an email to that fact (names withheld to prevent the drama)

* when i do my zines, take my time and do them with better layout!

* make more ziney friends!

*take up a more active role in the local zine scene (philly and environs)

~that's all from me right now... happy new year and good riddance to a turbulent decade i never want to live through again!!!

[kami]

get more than one issue out per year! and then maybe remember to distribute the damn things instead of leaving them laying around the house!!

[Mony Nunez]

i want to do a fan zine for rob lowe and peewee herman.