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?

[Aj Michel]

So, looking back over this post from 1/3, some updates:

#1: I did finish Syndicate Product 15, although not until February. Still, I'm happy with the final product.

#2: SP15 was still photocopied. The Office Depot was doing a great deal of 50% off for all orders submitted online, so I couldn't pass that up. At 28 pages, it wasn't worth it to go offset this time. However, I did learn a lot about what printers to use when I do a larger issue, and what the file requirements are as well.

#3: Finally got the "back issue" packages up in the Etsy store. Some great deals here (syndprod.etsy.com)

#4: Decided against the postcard zine project for now, but working on something different, a more personal series of minizines. Haven't finished any of those yet, though. I guess that will now become #5 on the list!

So, how is everyone else doing with their "goals", now that 1/4 of the year is already gone? (Eeeep!)

Aj Michel said:

#1: Get Syndicate Product 15: COMING CLEAN produced by end of January. I have all the entries, just need to do a massive layout and design bender.

#2: Work with an actual printer as opposed to doing all the copying, folding, and stapling myself for SP15.

#3: Put together a few "back issue" packages for the Etsy store (syndprod.etsy.com) to clear out some back stock.

#4: (Possibly) start a weekly postcard zine project, inspired by reading about SF fanzines in the 30s that used to do them.

[Race]

Mine are:
- to actually finish my first perzine, and make it a monthly publication.
- go to zine fests and swap
- complete the one off comics I've had in mind
- constantly update my zine tumblr with content
- and make friends and contacts who love zines, of course. they seem to be lacking where I live

[LydiaAbigail]

I'll probably focus on few things;

-Send out zines to those I owe zines in zine swaps
-Make some more zines
-Do the24-Hour Zine Thing (hopefully)
-Submit some of my more decent zines to stores and distros (international, as the zine scene in Norway is almost non-existing, at least in my area)

[Weepy Gonzales]

To make the damned thing! To cure my writer's, artist's, collagestress block. To get my awesome boyfriend to help me with mine - I was reading a Cometbus anthology the other day and he borrowed it and said he really liked it. It also helps that he is, from what I can tell so far, very creative and intelligent. I am sure he will have insightful things to say, and I am excited to have someone I know take an interest in zinedom. No one I know directly, that I can make eye contact with on a day to day basis, has any idea about it.

[Marc]

Publishing the first issue of an annual zine on DIY culture and possibly starting to write my first personal zine...

[Elaine]

For me it's getting something scanned and up ONLINE which keeps being put off (have to brush up on my scanner, I can't get crisp clean lines, gotta play with the contrast balance).

And printing issue 3 through 10. Everything is in sections, but I do print runs of 100 each, so that's $114 per issue. I've got the money (sorta) but still haven't done the physical cut and paste putting them all together. Some stuff has to be redrawn which takes time.