You HAVE to start someplace with a blog, so I will start here with "Hello". This is Randy Zimmerman and I am editor-in-chief of Flint Comix and Entertainment, a free-to- readers comics and entertainment newspaper that is distributed to over 250 locations in the Flint Michigan area. We carry all sorts of comics and entertainment articles (columns), mostly by local talent, but also national and international as well. The paper is usually 24 tabloid pages, but we're working to change that. It is also advertiser supported, which means our primary source of income is through advertising. We print 10,000 of these puppies and receive initial returns of between 3-5 HUNDRED (which astonishes our distributor, but really most of the credit goes to them), and those returns we hand out at shows for the next year or so, and the remainders from after a year we sell at a low price to folks who missed us from their collections.
We are distributed the same way most alternative newspapers, Auto Trader, and Real Estate For Sale papers and mags are distributed, usually in little wire racks in the breezeways of Coffee shops, donut shops, family restaurants, laundromats and the like. We are also available where most newspapers, magazines, and comics are sold, in most hobby shops, libraries, and even outside vendor boxes located in and around the Flint Michigan area (thus the name, Flint Comix!).
At this time we have no real website, (though we do have the name flintcomix.com reserved), and our primary means of web socializing is through our Facebook page (that you can find under the name Flint Comix).
At the time that I'm prepping this blog we are finishing off our FOURTH year of publishing. Our monthly issue number 48 is "on the stands" and moving swiftly, as usual. LOTS of things have already happened, so I will do my best to catch up, but also LOTS are about to happen, so I've decided to start and keep this blog to tell you all about it. I can't promise I will keep a regular schedule, or that at times I may ramble and go "off point" from what I was intending to tell you about initially. Also I plan on opening this blog up to a few more contributors, especially my publishing partner and longtime friend Ted Valley, we will try to run a byline on every future blog post so you'll know who's writing it.
So, this is a start. There's LOTS to tell, LOTS to explain and document, and with our fifth year of constant regular publishing beginning we will be doing our best to make sure EVERYONE in and out of the area knows and sees what we have done, what we are doing, and what we want to do with this amazing product and format.
THIS post is really a kick-off "test" to get it all rolling, and I sincerely thank you for being here.
More soon.
Randy Zimmerman
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