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?

[apartmentcat]

Of all my goals for this year, the zine-related ones are:
- publish 3 zines
- submit a zine to Sticky Institute.
Hopefully I can do more if that pesky job doesn't get in the way. =)

[tim scannell]

i still like the one-page...8.5X11 folded twice (8 sides), so will develop ways of making each of those 8 'sides' (pages) more attractive (e.g., my block-printing is improving). then half-page folded twice (still 8 sides, 'pages' will hold a lot of
my short poems...under 20 lines, if I use ARIEL 9 or 10..then, half/half-page is fun (a 2" X 11+ strip, folded twice)
sooooooooo..., lotsa XPERIMENTATION i guess. my 'collections'...as ever, are 6 (8.5X11)...24 pages (8.5X5.5) and hold about 50 poems and paragraphs and a dozen illustrations..., about 3 of those per year. I do a TON of mail-art with about 25 longtime (over 5 years) USA and FOREIGN friends.

[CocoaPuss Zine]

i can't read anymore crap that is not meant for me and doesn't inspire me and makes me feel fat, ugly, and poor. that doesn't exlude all glossies but i think i'm going to take a break from spending money on cosmo and glamour and focus more on urb, the fader, and dwell. i also want to not focus so much on trying to make my zine relevant to all people/women and please everyone. if people like it, then they like it, but i'm not going to hold back this year.

[kit feral]

that is a REALLY good idea. (though cosmo really does make me giggle...)


CocoaPuss Zine said:

i can't read anymore crap that is not meant for me and doesn't inspire me and makes me feel fat, ugly, and poor. that doesn't exlude all glossies but i think i'm going to take a break from spending money on cosmo and glamour and focus more on urb, the fader, and dwell. i also want to not focus so much on trying to make my zine relevant to all people/women and please everyone. if people like it, then they like it, but i'm not going to hold back this year.

[tim scannell]

i NEVER buy new mags...always get used at serenity/salva/or st vincent de P (many, many the present month!!!!! pleasing everyone...why please 'anyone'???....any 1?? it's YR zine...please yr-self!! if i am reading it and it is CRAP...i'll just toss it...the amount of stuff to read is TSUNAMIC!!

CocoaPuss Zine said:

i can't read anymore crap that is not meant for me and doesn't inspire me and makes me feel fat, ugly, and poor. that doesn't exlude all glossies but i think i'm going to take a break from spending money on cosmo and glamour and focus more on urb, the fader, and dwell. i also want to not focus so much on trying to make my zine relevant to all people/women and please everyone. if people like it, then they like it, but i'm not going to hold back this year.

[Olivia Arrow]

Yeah, I sure do! Main one is the same as a lot of other people who replied: finish that one pressing zine I've had to put on the back burner for so long! FINALLY! I can't set any more zine goals beyond this, it will be a big enough accomplishment for me.

[CocoaPuss Zine]

i agree that cosmo is kinda funny sometimes but the hair styles are not for my type of hair and it's all so hetero and consumer based and about pleasing some guy. i don't want to read about pleasing men anymore. i just don't want to be that person. actually all magazines pretty much have advertisements but i just don't want to support cosmo or glamour anymore. i just feel like they're dumbing me down. i need to be challenged more this year and not spend so much of my time reading things that don't inspire me. i felt very boring and unintersting this past year. i also want to not care about celebrity culture so much. we'll see what happens.

star blanket river child said:

that is a REALLY good idea. (though cosmo really does make me giggle...)


CocoaPuss Zine said:

i can't read anymore crap that is not meant for me and doesn't inspire me and makes me feel fat, ugly, and poor. that doesn't exlude all glossies but i think i'm going to take a break from spending money on cosmo and glamour and focus more on urb, the fader, and dwell. i also want to not focus so much on trying to make my zine relevant to all people/women and please everyone. if people like it, then they like it, but i'm not going to hold back this year.

[kit feral]

oh yeah, it's completely ridiculous and useless. it's all about the girls that wear a ton of makeup and want to know when a guy's going to call back. that's not for me.
but it's SO BAD it's hilarious sometimes.
I'd much rather read The Walrus or Scientific America or something that doesn't make me feel like my brain is melting a bit.

CocoaPuss Zine said:

i agree that cosmo is kinda funny sometimes but the hair styles are not for my type of hair and it's all so hetero and consumer based and about pleasing some guy. i don't want to read about pleasing men anymore. i just don't want to be that person. actually all magazines pretty much have advertisements but i just don't want to support cosmo or glamour anymore. i just feel like they're dumbing me down. i need to be challenged more this year and not spend so much of my time reading things that don't inspire me. i felt very boring and unintersting this past year. i also want to not care about celebrity culture so much. we'll see what happens.

star blanket river child said:

that is a REALLY good idea. (though cosmo really does make me giggle...)


CocoaPuss Zine said:

i can't read anymore crap that is not meant for me and doesn't inspire me and makes me feel fat, ugly, and poor. that doesn't exlude all glossies but i think i'm going to take a break from spending money on cosmo and glamour and focus more on urb, the fader, and dwell. i also want to not focus so much on trying to make my zine relevant to all people/women and please everyone. if people like it, then they like it, but i'm not going to hold back this year.

[amandaaaa]

Erica S. said:

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.

...there's a zine scene in pittsburgh? where i have iiiiii been?

[Tom Hendricks]

Keep using my zine to promote the art revolution for indies and against corporate art.
http://wp.me/p5S9X-aM

[CocoaPuss Zine]

i also want to take better pictures of my zine. almost all of you have amazing pictures of your zines everywhere and i didn't have a camera so i did the best i could but i do have a scanner now and might buy a camera this year.

[Aj Michel]

#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.