5.12 Zine Collective Meeting Notes

Our first meeting at Double Rainbow took place this past Sunday.  If you missed it here’s what was discussed!

Attendees: Jessica, Stephanie, Jaclyn, Amos, Marc, Drew
-Screenland is closing Friday :(
-“Thing Swamp” (an infoduct production) is due out by the end of May/early June!
-“Infoduct #11” is coming out soon
-“P.S. WW2 in America”, the 1st issue of a primary source history zine Jessica is making, is out now!  Available at Double Rainbow or directly through her
-Jess’ big ol’ copier is being worked on by a computer repair guy named Reverend Johnathan… his one man company is Disxo Technologies LLC check it out, its super cheap!
-Double Rainbow’s grand opening was a success!  
     ~plans with Reading Reptile for artists/author(?) residencies
     ~been talking with La Cucaracha and others in City Ice Arts Building about a zine fair in August?
-“Undercurrent” (a zine about KC) is due out end of June/early July.  Release event with Luke Rocha planning happening now
      ~Assembly/formatting get together May 22nd 6:30 at the Central Library downtown (bring glue sticks, scissors, magazines, etc.)
-Community Outreach via Free Skool Classes that facilitate zine making.
      ~ have monthly open “workshop” classes for those who need advice/support for their zine making endeavors.  
      ~Jess is into organizing this!  
-DISTRO STANDS!! NEW GAME PLAN! : instead of attempting to make them all uniform we will hold a workshop day on JUNE 8th @ 2PM where individuals are encouraged to “adopt” a stand.  This means decorating it AND working on finding a location for it/monitoring it.  We have 9 available.  Workshop location will be posted soon!  All stands will be required to have the kc zine machine web address on it and a quick explanation of how the stand is intended to be used.  We can elaborate on this in as this project progresses.  
-Some one threw out the idea of having a book club of sorts, but for ZINES!  is anyone interested in this?  a meet up group like this could even compile a zine reviews zine, or just have others to talk to about what they’re reading…if anyone is interested let me know!  This would also be a good Free Skool “class”
jessie-duke: PIONEERS PRESS NEEDS YOUR HELP!  Hey folks! We’re still trying to recover financially and emotionally from our mega-bad breakup with Microcosm Publishing (you know how it goes, he got the house and the car, we got the hungry kids, the dog, and the therapist bills) and we’re having a hell of a time keeping the lights on here at the distro. People have asked us how they can help besides ordering from us so we put together this list. Anything you can do would be hugely appreciated! *Help Spread the Word! Let your buddies know about the new Pioneers Press!  Link to us on your blog. We need all the help we can get to let people know who we are and what we’re doing. *Pass out our catalogs or flyers! If you’re down to drop off some of our flyers at your neighborhood bookstore or venue, get in touch and we’ll send you a stack.  *Be Our “Friend”! When we split from Microcosm Publishing we had to start from scratch out in the social networking world. (Oh, the horror!) Want updates on new titles, contests, and sales? Follow us! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wearepioneerspress Tumblr: http://wearepioneerspress.tumblr.com/ *Sign Up For Our Newsletter! This is another great way to find out about new titles, our monthly contests, and super-secret deals for our newsletter subscribers! *Give Us Feedback! Love the zine you just bought? Go to our website and add a comment on the zine’s product page. Happy with our service? Spread the word! Think we screwed something up? Let us know so we can fix it! Can’t find the zine you’re looking for? Tell us and we’ll try to track it down for you. We want to stock awesome stuff and provide great customer service but we can’t do that without your input and feedback. *Share some loot! We love to include freebies with our orders, so if you’ve got free mini-zines, stickers or patches promoting your zine, postcards advertising your indie business, bookmarks promoting your latest project, or other small fun things that’ll fit in a priority mail envelope send them our way! *Send us a postcard! Dudes, some days we get so bummed out and weighed down by messages from haters, ex-friends, and bill collectors that we want to throw in the towel and never leave the farm again. Love letters and care packages from strangers are what got us through this winter. Keep ‘em coming! WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Orders@pioneerspress.com THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!  <3 Jessie, Adam, Thaddeus, Rio, and all the animals on the Hard Fifty Farm PioneersPress.com
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jessie-duke:

PIONEERS PRESS NEEDS YOUR HELP! 

Hey folks! We’re still trying to recover financially and emotionally from our mega-bad breakup with Microcosm Publishing (you know how it goes, he got the house and the car, we got the hungry kids, the dog, and the therapist bills) and we’re having a hell of a time keeping the lights on here at the distro.

People have asked us how they can help besides ordering from us so we put together this list. Anything you can do would be hugely appreciated!

*Help Spread the Word! Let your buddies know about the new Pioneers Press!  Link to us on your blog. We need all the help we can get to let people know who we are and what we’re doing.

*Pass out our catalogs or flyers! If you’re down to drop off some of our flyers at your neighborhood bookstore or venue, get in touch and we’ll send you a stack. 

*Be Our “Friend”! When we split from Microcosm Publishing we had to start from scratch out in the social networking world. (Oh, the horror!) Want updates on new titles, contests, and sales? Follow us!

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wearepioneerspress

Tumblr: http://wearepioneerspress.tumblr.com/

*Sign Up For Our Newsletter! This is another great way to find out about new titles, our monthly contests, and super-secret deals for our newsletter subscribers!

*Give Us Feedback! Love the zine you just bought? Go to our website and add a comment on the zine’s product page. Happy with our service? Spread the word! Think we screwed something up? Let us know so we can fix it! Can’t find the zine you’re looking for? Tell us and we’ll try to track it down for you. We want to stock awesome stuff and provide great customer service but we can’t do that without your input and feedback.

*Share some loot! We love to include freebies with our orders, so if you’ve got free mini-zines, stickers or patches promoting your zine, postcards advertising your indie business, bookmarks promoting your latest project, or other small fun things that’ll fit in a priority mail envelope send them our way!

*Send us a postcard! Dudes, some days we get so bummed out and weighed down by messages from haters, ex-friends, and bill collectors that we want to throw in the towel and never leave the farm again. Love letters and care packages from strangers are what got us through this winter. Keep ‘em coming!

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Orders@pioneerspress.com

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!! 

<3 Jessie, Adam, Thaddeus, Rio, and all the animals on the Hard Fifty Farm

PioneersPress.com

Reminder, KC Zine Collective meets on Sunday at 5

In the works! The Hard 50 Farm Zine Mobile

jessie-duke:

Check it out! Here are the plans for our mobile zine gallery project that’s being funded by our 2013 RocketGrant! Pictures and info over at their site. We’re so excited about this! 

zineaboutkc: This weekend!
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zineaboutkc:

This weekend!

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This Friday&#8230; Stephanie and Marc will be wheeling around the zine distro and library on the First Friday Stomping grounds at the crossroads. Welcome to join us! Message KC Zine Machine for details. 
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This Friday… Stephanie and Marc will be wheeling around the zine distro and library on the First Friday Stomping grounds at the crossroads. Welcome to join us! Message KC Zine Machine for details. 

Last night we went out to the Double Rainbow zine store opening and got these free #1 Winner At Art shirts. As modeled by Adam Gnade. Double Rainbow rules.

wearepioneerspress:

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Last night was great! If you didn’t make it out their current hours are 11-5 Saturday-Monday! Yay!

stinkeyekc: BEHOLD!!! DOUBLE RAINBOW IS A NEW ZINE SHOP IN KC! THE GRAND OPENING IS THIS FRIDAY AT 6PM CITY ICE ARTS BUILDING 2027 CAMPBELL I’LL BE THERE! WILL YOU? ALL CAPS. &lt;3
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stinkeyekc:

BEHOLD!!!

DOUBLE RAINBOW IS A NEW ZINE SHOP IN KC! THE GRAND OPENING IS THIS FRIDAY AT 6PM CITY ICE ARTS BUILDING 2027 CAMPBELL

I’LL BE THERE! WILL YOU?

ALL CAPS.

<3

zineaboutkc: This wed. we‘ll be talking about how the first issue is coming together and project funding! we‘d love to hear from you!
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zineaboutkc:

This wed. we‘ll be talking about how the first issue is coming together and project funding! we‘d love to hear from you!