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Syndicate Product 22: SIX CATEGORIES
28 pages / 1/6-letter size with cardstock covers / $2

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“I’ll take ‘Staplers’ for $400, please.”
 
In the beginning of the 1995 novel Microserfs*, Douglas Coupland introduces each of the Microsoft-employed characters through their dream Jeopardy! categories, fields of expertise such as “Career anxieties”, “Cats”, “Psychotic loser friends”, “Bulk shopping”, and “Macintosh products”.

Although I can’t remember much else from this nearly twenty-year old novel, these character “introductions” remained stuck in a shadowy corner of my mind. It was an interesting way to describe the characters, a way of summing up a person’s quirks descriptively and quickly. It was a snapshot of what was to come in the story.

In the years since, I’ve mentally made lists of my ideal Jeopardy! rounds, with categories like “The Simpsons, Seasons 1 to 8” and “Postage” and “Job Dissatisfaction”.

I wasn’t the only person who ever did this, was I?

In the following pages, you’ll find ideal Jeopardy! boards from 25 contributors, including fellow zine publishers, writers, historians, artists, and friends. Thank you all for contributing! As said many times before, Syndicate Product wouldn’t exist without you.
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Disclaimer: This zine has absolutely no connection to Douglas Coupland, the novel Microserfs, or the television program Jeopardy!

*A long excerpt of what became the novel Microserfs is available here: www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/microserfs.html 

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Syndicate Product 21B

Reading Log August to December 2012
16 pages / Digest / $2

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This completes my sixth yearly reading/consumption log. I’ve published logs of what I’ve read and consumed for the years 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 (in a 4 issue set), and now 2012. And again, I swear on the longarm stapler that this will be the last time I do this. And I mean it this time.

Issue 21B follows the same format as 21A: running commentary on what I’ve read this year, sometimes in a sentence, sometimes in a few paragraphs. Highly recommended items get a star. Again, it’s likely I missed some books, zines, comics, etc.

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Syndicate Product 21A: 

Reading Log January to July 2012
20 pages / Digest / $2

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 I was not going to keep an obsessive, detailed reading log for 2012 because I was burnt out after producing 2011, 2010, and 2009 editions. Still, I couldn’t stop from at least keeping a list of what I read using Twitter (@SPConsumption).

When International Zine Month came around in July, I first decided to make a 24 Hour Zine from that list and notes, which then turned into a 48 Hour Zine, which then turned into “it will be done when it gets done”.

These aren’t critical reviews, but a running commentary and impressions of what I’ve read this year so far. Some items get short essays, others get a sentence. Highly recommended items get a star. 

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Syndicate Product 20 / The Meta-Comics Issue
44 pages / Digest / $4

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In this Meta-Comics issue, contributors write and draw about what goes into making their comics, why they read comics, creating comics as a form of therapy, trying to adapt favorite novels into comics, favorite creators and long lost characters and imprints, memories of first comic books and dusty comic book stores, some favorite writers and artists, comics used as comfort during childhood (and adulthood), and finally reading those “racy” comics that they peeped at as a teen but never actually purchased. There are a few first-time Syndicate Product contributors in this issue: Alisa Harris, William Brian MacLean, and Dan Shoemaker. You’ll recognize many regulars as well: JB Winter, Delaine Derry Green, Andrew Wales, Andrew Coltrin, Mike Faloon, Davida Gypsy Breier, Jen McCleary, Ken Bausert, Sean Stewart, Eric Lyden, Steve Bojanowksi, and Juleigh Howard-Hobson.