Participants
So, things
are beginning to come together somewhat
The people
who are interested so far are:
- Nick Connor (text only if
needed)
- Olivia Croce
- Pat Cullum
- Rory /Choo Cunningham (TBC)
- Sadie Moisin
- George Murphy
- Chloe Uden
- Naomi Zeiwe Palmer
This is an
outline of how I see this project progressing at the moment and how I think we
should approach and develop the work. It may be unorthodox but at the very
least, I think it’s direct and hopefully should make our lives easier.
Theme
Accepting
the limitations of our collaboration (all of us living in different places and
living different and busy lives) and embracing this fact so as not to create a
problem of it, we will base our structure and theme around the drawing game
‘consequences’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_consequences
)
Each
participant will be pre-allocated a position in the zine and a broad theme
(which can be interpreted as loosely or tightly as the artist wishes)
In homage
to the surrealists where this game originated, the Zine will be entitled
‘Exquisite Cadaver’. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse
(this also has a pleasing yet indirect link to Exeter
The game
was originally designed to entertain and amuse and I hope that this will be at
the heart of our approach.
Audience
Content
should be aimed at ‘like-minded people’ without excluding younger people by
including overly graphic /obscene content and I don't think we need to baby
anybody. (I have deliberately used the word ‘overly’….it is up to you to decide
what level of ‘somewhat’ or ‘slightly’ you think is appropriate).
How to work
Make work
which comes naturally to you
Make work
which you enjoy making and don’t work too much about anyone else
Make work
which you would like to see if you were to buy and look at/read a comic/zine
Technical & time parameters
- You will have a week to decide
whether or not you would like to participate any further in this project
- Following your agreement, you
will be allocated a position in the zine and a few words which may loosely
or tightly inspire your work
- You will have 4 weeks to work
on your idea before submitting a draft by email for feedback (feedback
will consist of anything you want it to – in conversation, you will let me
know what sort of feedback you want, and I will try to oblige! This will
take 2 weeks
- You will then have a further 4
weeks to develop your work further and re-submit it in hard copy.
- Alongside the artwork you
create, you will be asked to submit a short profile piece and a small
image to accompany it
- The work will then be collated
and calibrated so to speak so it can be sent to print.
- You will receive a hard copy of
the final comic/zine two -4 weeks after you have submitted your final
copy.
Each artist
will create 6 pages of work on A4
The final
production will be on A5 (so your work will be shrunk)
You will be
able to work in full colour
Sales, marketing and promotion
Zines sell
for around £2-8 per publication and currently I am proposing that we sell the
work for around £3-4.
I propose
that we produce 1000 copies
The
publication will be available for sale through facebook, ebay & etsy as
well as directly and we will try to find other points of sale
We will
have a launch party where the publication will be on sale and your networks
will be invited and everyone will asked to be there for a signing
We will
have a facebook page.
You will
receive an equal portion of any of the profits from the zine. Which may only
amount to a hundred pounds or so but could be more. – here is how I have
calculated it
£3.50 x 1000
= £3500
Less £750
production costs = £2750
Less £100
promotion costs = £2650
Divided by
6 participants = £442 absolute maximum
All postage
costs would be charged on top so shouldn’t affect the return and for sales
online I will increase it slightly to cover costs of charges.
So, I think
it is completely possible we could sell all 1000, but to err on the safe side,
I think we should assume at the moment that we will only be making pennies
rather than pounds.
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