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?

[Ericfishlegs]

Since I managed to go all through 2009 w/o making a new zine I think I'd like to actually make a zine in 2010. I'd like to make more than one, but I don't wanna push it.

[raequel aka systris]

* 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!!!

[Erin H]

Good question.

- expand the distro catalog
- attend a zine fest
- finish the zine i started last year

[Dan C]

I need to think more about my goals, both zine-related and otherwise, and both for the next year and the rest of my life. Zine-wise, I think I want to keep putting out a quarterly magazine I just put out the first issue of, make a couple of other, more personal zines, and do a better job getting the things I'm creating out to more people.

[Miss Alyss (Werdy Girl)]

- Finish LADY BONES finally (per-zine)
- Finish NERVOUS INDUSTRY (journal comics)
- Maybe collaborate with a friend on a "Fun-a-Day zine-related project . Maybe.
- Get the website built and launched.
- Attend more zine fests
- Read more zines

[Charlotte Lee (Bitch theme)]

My main goal is to actually get the first issue of bitch theme out. I keep promising people i will give them copies, but havent managed to yet which i feel bad about-so getting it done in January is the goal! And then, hopefully, future issues throughout the year.
And of course, to keep reading lots of ace zines!

[kit feral]

So many!

-Finish a couple of half started zines
-Open at Etsy shop
-Learn to bind things properly
-Get involved in a distro
-attend a fest (of course, this entirely depends on my city or if I can travel.)
-volunteer at my local zine archive
-buy a new printer

[Alex Wrekk]

-Finish my zine about my UK zine tour
-make a cook zine version Brainscan with stories to go along with recipes
-Work on the 10th annual Portland Zine Symposium (the dates are being tricky to nail down this year)
-host a zine residency at my house connected with the IPRC, the IPRC zine library and maybe a zine symposium intern
-do another issue of the Nobody Cares About Your Stupid Zine Podcast with my housemate Marc
-Do the 24 hour zine thing finally!
-go on a fun zine tour adventure of the US with a bunch of zine friends from the UK!
-Maybe make it to Expozine in the autumn.

[Maranda Elizabeth]

I don't plan on working on any zines over the winter since I have some other projects I'm trying to focus on, but I do have plans for the next issue of Telegram Ma'am whenever I happen to feel like making it, I'll probably do the 24-hour zine thing in July since I've had fun participating the last few years, and I may or may not write another issue of Edith, but not for quite a while.

[Emma Jane Falconer]

1) get the couple of issues that are hanging about in various half-finished states done and dusted by the end of jan
2) actually bother to make some flyers and send them out with orders
3) do some fancier covers
4) be a bit more on the ball about getting my zine out there
5) try to get more feedback from people about my stuff, as I basically get none right now

[Emma Jane Falconer]

Oh and get the issue about my trip to ireland done by New Year's Eve so I can give it to the people I travelled with

Emma Jane Falconer said:

1) get the couple of issues that are hanging about in various half-finished states done and dusted by the end of jan
2) actually bother to make some flyers and send them out with orders
3) do some fancier covers
4) be a bit more on the ball about getting my zine out there
5) try to get more feedback from people about my stuff, as I basically get none right now

[Erica S.]

1. Finish a zine. Just one would be just spiffy, two might be asking for too much.
2. Expand the distro catalog to include more minicomics, work on site design and CSS so it doesn't look so circa-1999.
3. Put out ads in The Comics Journal and maybe a few other places (my "advertising budget" is not too big though).
4. That zine I mentioned in #1? Send it out to more places, maybe try to get it reviewed, even though it's, y'know, HARD.
5. Finally hook up with the zine scene here in Pittsburgh... a scant few months before I might be leaving forever.

2010 will be an interesting year... or not.