We are RevHOLT, a Matt Holt zine! The zine is a collection of canon-based art and fic about Matt from Voltron: Legendary Defender. We donated 930$! // Links for Mobile (Infrequent) spoilers will be tagged #vld spoilers (two weeks after airdate).
Hello! For the duration of roughly two years a while back, you might remember that I ran a few zines. This is a notice for anyone who has purchased a PDF zine that I worked on. I ran zines in Voltron fandom so I’m tagging there, but if you’ve run any zine in the past five-ish years, this might be relevant to you too.
Starting June 1, 2023, Google will be purging files from accounts that have been inactive for over two years. (The policy actually starts June 1, 2021, but the two-year inactivity buffer means deletion will happen no earlier than 2023.) Naturally, this applies to accounts for any zines that are no longer active.
I will try to periodically login to zine accounts I have access to, but I recommend downloading any purchased files as soon as possible to avoid loss of access. If a file you’ve purchased is deleted, please reach out via the zine’s social media and someone will try to get it back online or send you the file. (I personally will mostly likely see messages from Tumblr/email, but some mods are more active on Twitter so whatever should be fine.)
@lancezine @vldmattzine @shattzine @keithzine2018 and uhhhh folks over at @zinestiria @katt-zine might find this relevant too, I think?
Please direct zine-specific questions to the inbox of the relevant zine. Thanks!!
RevHOLT: a VLD Matt Zine is proud to donate to the Organisation of Transformative Works!
After many months of hard work, this project is finally complete. We’re so pleased with the project – it’s been an honour to work with all the creators, compile the fanworks into a book, and share the book with everyone. We’re immensely thankful to everyone who supported us through hype and through buying the zine; we hope you enjoyed the process and the final product as we did. :)
Additionally, we’re very happy that our net profits are going to support @transformativeworks, an organisation that services fandom culture. This is a community to which we belong, and we’re proud that we could contribute. Read more about their mission statement here!
[Original receipt here.]
Bonus: Zine stats!
Zine Photos Tag // Full Works // Digital Previews // Participants // Twitter
Mod E got her tax return and it turns out we allocated too many dollars to taxes, which means we have extra money. This brings our donation total up to $1355.31 USD. 😍
RevHOLT: a VLD Matt Zine is proud to donate to the Organisation of Transformative Works!
After many months of hard work, this project is finally complete. We’re so pleased with the project – it’s been an honour to work with all the creators, compile the fanworks into a book, and share the book with everyone. We’re immensely thankful to everyone who supported us through hype and through buying the zine; we hope you enjoyed the process and the final product as we did. :)
Additionally, we’re very happy that our net profits are going to support @transformativeworks, an organisation that services fandom culture. This is a community to which we belong, and we’re proud that we could contribute. Read more about their mission statement here!
[Original receipt here.]
Bonus: Zine stats!
Zine Photos Tag // Full Works // Digital Previews // Participants // Twitter
Mod E got her tax return and it turns out we allocated too many dollars to taxes, which means we have extra money. This brings our donation total up to $1355.31 USD. 😍
Took me long enough to post this! Here’s my contribution to the fantastic @vldmattzine ✨ 🚀 I love Matt Holt, always and forever! Thanks so much to the mods for this awesome opportunity 💘 My heart is set out for this handsome meme lord *doesth e dabbo*
RevHOLT: a VLD Matt Zine is proud to donate to the Organisation of Transformative Works!
After many months of hard work, this project is finally complete. We’re so pleased with the project – it’s been an honour to work with all the creators, compile the fanworks into a book, and share the book with everyone. We’re immensely thankful to everyone who supported us through hype and through buying the zine; we hope you enjoyed the process and the final product as we did. :)
Additionally, we’re very happy that our net profits are going to support @transformativeworks, an organisation that services fandom culture. This is a community to which we belong, and we’re proud that we could contribute. Read more about their mission statement here!
[Original receipt here.]
Bonus: Zine stats!
Zine Photos Tag // Full Works // Digital Previews // Participants // Twitter
RevHOLT: a VLD Matt Zine is proud to donate to the Organisation of Transformative Works!
After many months of hard work, this project is finally complete. We’re so pleased with the project – it’s been an honour to work with all the creators, compile the fanworks into a book, and share the book with everyone. We’re immensely thankful to everyone who supported us through hype and through buying the zine; we hope you enjoyed the process and the final product as we did. :)
Additionally, we’re very happy that our net profits are going to support @transformativeworks, an organisation that services fandom culture. This is a community to which we belong, and we’re proud that we could contribute. Read more about their mission statement here!
[Original receipt here.]
Bonus: Zine stats!
Zine Photos Tag // Full Works // Digital Previews // Participants // Twitter
This is the second-to-last zine-related post. Every zine is at its home now, and with nothing else incoming, we figured we could ramble a little about things we learned. Because we can!
(It’s cool if you want to skip reading this, haha. Donation receipt coming soon!)
Back in late September 2017, Mod D made a throwaway comment about how cool it would be if Matt, her favourite character, had a whole zine of his own. Mod E (whose fave is also Matt) saw that comment and, said this:
And then...
...We’ve come a long way since our initial conception.
Mod D came up with wordmark concepts after Mod E coined the best Holt pun ever. \o/ The inspiration for our final choice was like... 80s vapourwave throwback, with cyberpunk/EDM influences and a reverberating O that just screams out to the masses. :D Later, we ended up including an illustration by @crowzep to our brand for funsies.
(Our friend @svensationalist said this in response to our initial workmarks.)
Some interesting notes about creation logistics:
We found that both deadlines and flexibility were necessary. In a team of 30+ people, something will always come up -- and we found that having monthly deadlines is important so people have milestones to look forward to, and flexibility is important if things come up.
Also, check-ins are important because it means people have started work -- which means people are less likely to drop. ;) (We did have a grand total of 0 drops, not including people who denied our initial invitation.)
We’re super happy with the way we grouped the anthology -- we think we got a really cool narrative out of a diverse group of creators!
Email process with two mods is hella easy. One mod writes the email, and the other mod looks it over and hits send. Our participants were all super cool people, so communications were ultimately a good time.
Doodle pages are fun for community building!
Also, we celebrated season 4, family, winter, the new year, love, math, and moms.
Some notes about the orders process:
Layout needs to start a good month or two before preorders. Early layout makes it easier to work at a leisurely pace while slotting in complete works as they come in -- without dealing with layout and preorders at the same time.
Holy shit, orders flooded in during the last weekend of preorders. It is normal for orders to increase near the end of a preorders period -- it’s financially smart to hold on to your money as long as possible, and it also means less of of a wait time between payment and receipt of the zine. But - we didn’t think we were going to hit 100 orders, and it was such a pleasant surprise when we nyoomed past that milestone. :D
Ordering product is a restless endeavour (or at least, restless for people who aren’t doing this as, like, a full-time job). We started right after preorders ended and we made an effort to be stay top of communications with the vendors. (We’re pretty proud of our turnaround time.)
We did get a break while waiting for the vendors to send us product (since there was nothing we could do, we just relaxed :P). After that, we went back to the crunch time mindset of creating mailing labels and sending mail.
We ordered extra zines to replace anything that went missing, but we didn’t realise that since we were only ordering 100ish zines and not 500ish, there would statistically be fewer missing orders. So -- we had extras.
Selling extras with very limited stock (on a limited storefront plan) is nerve-wracking. We sold five charms very quickly, and waiting for the sixth charm to sell was stressful because we wanted to close inventory immediately after.
Overall, we had a lot of fun creating this zine, and we’re v happy with the results! Our donation post will be up sometime this weekend. Here’s to the completion of a zine, and to more great Matt content! 🥂
Zine Photos Tag // Full Works // Digital Previews // Participants // Twitter
If Matt is in this season, this blog may contain infrequent season 7 spoilers! The spoilers will always be Matt-related and will be tagged with #vld spoilers for two weeks after airdate.
hello friends!! plz enjoy some of the pieces I did for the @vldmattzine !!
My theme was Garrison!! + a doodle page at the end
Possibly one of my favourite zines I was apart of, filled with a bunch of silly, amazing and talented people!!!
it turned out amazingly and I hope everyone enjoyed their copy as much as I did
