Continuing Call for Entries: Meta-Comics Issue
Most important announcement: I am still accepting submissions for the Meta-Comics Issue. The absolute, final, for-real-this-time deadline is JUNE 30, 2011. All information is here. Thanks to everyone who has already sent in their contributions, and I apologize for the long delay in publishing the issue. When it’s finally published, it will be awesome.
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Two new zines available!
(2011 is The Revenge of Print, after all.) Both of these are consumption zines, and both are available in the SPCHQ Etsy Store.
Syndicate Consumption 2010
(in 140 characters or less)
20 pages / Digest / $2
From the introduction:
[...] I wanted to compile a consumption log that was more than just a list, but didn’t have the energy to write full reviews of books, movies, etc., as previously. As a jokey experiment, I wrote movie reviews Twitter-style in 140 characters or less.
I thought this was going to be a lazy alternative, but discovered differently.
It was a challenge to sum up a book, comic, album, or movie using only 140 characters. It forced me to edit ruthlessly and be concise while still being descriptive and critical as opposed to purely snarky. [...]
Sculpting reviews into 140 characters required finesse to come in under limit. Although I didn’t keep count, some of these reviews were probably “rewritten” ten or twelve times. As a self publisher who doesn’t answer to editors, it’s so easy to blather on without restraint or editing, resulting in overlong articles, reviews, blog posts, and essays that actually say very little. Imposing structural limits cuts the crap. It also prevented continual over-editing, because for every letter added, another would have to drop. (Note: Titles and authors/artists do not count toward the 140 character limit, only the actual commentary.) [...]
Syndicate Consumption First Quarter 2011 (January-March)
16 pages / Quarter-legal vertical / $1
From the introduction:
Instead of waiting until the year’s end to write about books, movies, music, and television consumed, I’ve decided instead to release quarterly reports designed as small pamphlets of commentary. Fingers crossed that I can complete the three more installments in a timely fashion.
There were lots of books, comics, and zines consumed this quarter, but little new music or movies. The ongoing miserable weather between January and March made it just right for hours of reading, plus some television, too. I still have an enormous to-read list that keeps growing, despite my best efforts to quit buying books.
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Low Hug/Syndicate Product/One-shot Digital Archives
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Zine Weeding Project
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Zine Events (where I’ll be tabling)
I also hope to be tabling at this year’s Philadelphia Alternative Comic Con, if they’ll allow zines.
