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You Are My Hero, a Supercorp Zine
RETIRED.
See our transparency documents here.
An unofficial Supercorp charity fan zine created to celebrate the love between Kara Zor-El and Lena Luthor. All profits for all volumes 1-5 have been donated to The Trevor Project, Transgender Law Center, and Futures Without Violence.
Zine Moderators: 0gasstationcoffee (Ayesha), BigMammaLlama5 (Grace), contagiousiridescence (Demi), battenthecrosshatches (Batten), & lisamar1exo (Lisa). Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @supercorpzine.
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Hey all!
This is the final announcement from us to let you all know that on May 30 2023 we will be archiving our accounts. That means:
The social media accounts will stay up, including the google account for our financial transparency documents BUT-
We will close the ask box on tumblr and the DMs on Twitter and Instagram.
2. We will no longer be taking messages or contacts through our social media and gmail.
3. We will no longer offer assistance with missing PDF links as it is far past the distribution date. (If you are trying to access a PDF currently, we will NOT respond to google drive link email access requests. You MUST contact us separately with your order number as we have stated in previous posts.)
Lastly, as of today April 5 2023, we will no longer be offering assistance for lost physical zines as we have completely used all of our small back stock for the replacement requests we did receive.
Thank you so much for your support over the years, and we wish you all the best moving forward!
The Mod Squad.
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Hi! I'm curious what program you used to put the zine together? Did you use Abode InDesign? Do you have any tutorials/resources that you would recommend for learning whichever program you used? Thanks!
Hey there, this is Grace! Sorry for the delay I was out of town when we got your message.
Both I and Monica, who was the art mod before me, and Batten who tagged in on assisting with merchandise in later volumes, used Adobe InDesign. We didn't list any particular programs in our How To post (didn't want to assume skill level) but if you are hoping to have lots of text or go to print, InDesign will be your industry standard program for that. There are non-adobe alternatives, but I personally didn't use them because they often don't offer the tools needed for print production or meet my needs for a design program. This may be different for you! We unfortunately don't have any strong recommendation for a free program to try, but we do know of Gimp, SketchUp, and Adobe Spark. Take your time trying out different programs to see which one better fits your needs. If you can get InDesign free from a friend that may be worth it.
Should you choose to brave InDesign, Adobe's resource page for tutorials and trouble shooting will be helpful. They also have a forum community where you can connect with others and ask questions. You could also check out the reddit page if you would like to have another community option! A quick search on YouTube also yielded a bunch of different tutorials, so you'll just have to pick and choose which ones would work best for you for the task you're facing. I apologize I can't really give you more specific answers on InDesign tutorials, it's a large program (as are all Adobe programs) so I would suggest just learning about the pieces and parts that pertain to what you're trying to achieve!
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Hello,
I just bought the zine omnibus and i was windering if i could print out the zine?? Not to sell or anything like that but just so i have a copy i can hold. I just wanted to check with you guys before i do anything.
And also i am sooo thankful and appreciative to everyone involved in making the zines, it is such a wonderful thing that you guys are doing!! You guys are just sooo amazing.
Thank you!!!
Just answered this in another ask, thank you for your patience!
We appreciate you all for supporting us! It was an incredible journey.
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Hi! I have been enjoying the fanzine lately. I bought only the Omnibus PDF yet I also want it as a physical copy, so I am thinking about printing it myself in the future. May I ask permission to do so? It will be strictly for personal use.
Hi there! Thank you for being patient, we were waiting until the zine was concluded and retired to answer your ask. And as we have gotten this question multiple times and no one picked up on my (Mod Grace's) not-so-subtle clues to contact us off anon:
If you would like to print your Omnibus (or any of your PDFs), we cannot stop you from doing so. Please do not sell or redistribute it in any way, as it is for your personal use only.
Rip in pieces to your printer, do keep in mind it is an RGB color file and it will print darker than it appears on your screen. If you have any questions if taking it to a printer like Kinkos or your local equivalent, feel free to contact us off anon and I'll get to your answer as soon as I can. Have a great weekend!
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Over the years we’ve been asked many times about how to run a fandom zine, so to finally answer those questions here is our incomplete and rough guide/collection of questions to ask yourself on good practices for running a fandom event or charity zine. By no means is this an exact how-to, but we hope this will help answer questions and prompt you in the right direction for running a clean and organized event safely and responsibly!
Purpose
What is the purpose of your zine (or event)? Why are you doing this? Is it for fun? Are you raising money for charity? Are you doing it because you just want to and because you love fandom and your ship? Is it a combination of all of the above? Will it be fan fiction? Fan art? Gifs? Video edits? Music? A combination of any? Are you going to run a big bang or reverse bang? Are you running a gift exchange for the holidays? These are all incredibly important questions to ask yourself when you first decide you want to lead a zine or event!
If this is for charity, decide your charities before you launch anything. It is good practice to have a solid plan on what you want to do and what you want to accomplish before posting an interest check. It is better to be prepared and have to postpone your zine or event than to try to run a project with no clear cut agenda. Projects that do not have a clear path or set agenda have a much higher risk of fizzling and falling apart.
When choosing your charity, make sure to research them first before making your final decision. To best protect yourself and make sure your money is going to a real cause your charity should be a 501(c)(3) registered charity and you should be able to view their IRS 990 form on their website, or on a helpful website called Charity Navigator.
WARNING. If you are involving money, it is in your best interest NOT to include photoshop manipulations, gifs, videos, or any other form of media that includes real photography or the voices of your characters (this includes voice actors). Actors and companies are very strict in their contracts about how their likenesses and voices can and can’t be used for profit. You would be risking the integrity of your event as well as financial responsibility. If anything, you could potentially receive a Cease & Desist with a threat of legal action.
If you are concerned about the safety of your money, draw up a contract with any partners that protect those funds from being stolen-or result in legal consequences if so. If you are running a non-fandom event and paying your artists, you will need to speak to a lawyer to make sure you safely and legally can compensate them for their work. Find and speak to a lawyer or financial advisor to see what your options are.
Audience
Who is your audience? Events and zines with narrower focuses are easier to maintain. Are you prepared to keep a close audience or are you going to go broader? If you are thinking of a broader event you should look and see if other people from different fandoms are interested in running a fandom project to help you organize the process and spread the word. Do your research on fandom relations. Some fandoms are often not held in favorable light by other fandoms and trying to marry two together may result in a failure to organize. If you are determined but may not have the audience, start small with something like a fic exchange and see how it goes.
Though not necessarily true, a good way to gain an audience is by generating content. Have you been active in the fandom you want to run your zine/event for? If so, how have your posts been doing and have you been interacting with other people? People are more likely to trust and join a project if they at least know of the person running it even if they aren’t a “BFN” (Big Fandom Name). There is no way to truly determine if you will even get an audience as much of fandom’s attention now is based on what’s the newest and what is going to bring the most instant gratification. Fandom events take a lot of time, how will you maintain your audience during the lulls?
Organization
How are you going to organize this? What social media platforms do you want to utilize? Will you set up a Discord? Only contact via Email? How will you collect and organize the contributions? Google drive folders or documents or an AO3 collection? Will you have your contributors email you word docs or PDFs if you are distributing?
Is it a call for all admissions or will you have curated limited slots? Are you doing an invitation only event? If you are doing applications, what are the requirements? How will you vet people? Allowing transphobic creators into a zine raising money for trans charities is not ideal, which is why we encourage having the vision for your event before you put out an interest check. What is your schedule? How long do you want to dedicate to the entire process while still allowing adequate time for people to contribute? How are you going to share it?
What if it’s 100% digital? Will you do an online collection on AO3? If not AO3, how are you compiling it? Will you have the contributors send you a PDF that you will then stitch together? Will you find someone with design experience to do it for you?
What if you want to print? Who will you print with? How will you ship? Will you offer it internationally? It is possible some printers will not want to work with you if you are trying to do monetary sales on fan fiction and fan art for fear of copyright infringement. Make sure to do your research for online companies (Lulu does not like to do this, Smartpress is a decent option) or look around at a local printshop (tends to run more expensive, especially now with continuing material shortages). If you are doing print things get trickier, especially if you need to adhere to print specifications-usually CMYK, 300dpi, press ready PDFs following the printer’s templates for safety area and document bleed-at a minimum. You’ll have a smoother time if someone on your team (or you) have some sort of design experience. It’s easy to put words on a page to print. It’s hard to make them look good.
At a glance digital considerations:
Where to host (do not tie money to ao3, see note in Outreach & Promotion)
Create a visual standard (colors, sizes, ‘logos’, etc)
Create submission standard (word count or other content requirements, location, file type/size, etc)
At a glance print considerations:
Digital layout for print
If offering both digital & physical versions, you will want to have files tailored to each application (see notes about bleed & printer templates above)
Finding and working with a vendor
Shipping
-International packages come with their own caveats about where will accept what shipping companies
-Physical items: generate labels, acquire boxes & protective stuffing, physically package items (where? Enough packagers?)
-Schedule pickups
-Size of product will affect size & therefore cost of shipping per item
At a glance overall considerations:
Sales vendor/storefront if applicable
Tracking sales items
Tracking costs & transparency documents
Tracking participant communications
Tracking customer communications
Upkeeping social media posts & communications (& generating content)
Tracking participant deliverables
With all of this considered, clear communication is key. Having clear expectations of deliverables, dates, and timelines for your participants and as well as clear responsibilities between leadership individuals will help you be successful.
Timeline
Your timeline is important and you should try your best to stick to it. Have it posted, have an FAQ, again be transparent about both internal scheduling for your contributors and public scheduling for those watching.
When creating your schedule, it may be helpful to do a ‘workback’ schedule - pick an ideal final date, and working backwards, add in estimated times and dates for every single task and deliverable to see what is realistic to accomplish for contributors and for leadership. If you are ordering physical items, build in buffer times - particularly remembering that with today’s chaotic global supply chain, things may take more time. Required check-ins can be helpful for visibility and prevent procrastination.
Also do your research on your fandom. Have there been previous events? If so, are you potentially overlapping with other events? Potential overlap can harm both events, so look around and think about potentially starting when one is finishing up or has just finished so you can reach a bigger pool of creatives. Don’t be afraid to reach out and talk to other event organizers, they may be wanting to participate in other events that aren’t theirs but have been unable to due to scheduling. BUT, don’t let others’ schedule dictate your own, you need to stick to a calendar that you know you can abide by.
Quality and Curation
An “all welcome” zine or event is far different from a curated zine or event. What is the quality of work you are looking for? People are more likely to interact with work that is of better quality if it involves money, so if you are wanting to raise money or pay your participants (or have enough funds for production and shipping alone), then you might need to think about running a curated project. Even with talented contributors, if the time isn’t right or if something changes with the event leadership the quality can still be affected.
Another consideration when deciding on curation is physical (and to a lesser extent) real estate. If you are printing, costs of printing itself and shipping are affected by page size and number and weight, so remember to account for this when looking at curation, printers, shipping, and finances.
When thinking about curation and before opening applications, leadership should be in agreement on how many spots for each type of media are ideal, and what parameters the project is looking for ie x amount of fanfiction or fanart or both, certain styles, certain themes, certain content, certain subjective qualities etc. Those are qualities based on submitted work but there could be other factors you might filter your participants by, such as age if you have explicit content, previous participation in fandom work, etc. Having these clarified will help the team confidently select participants as well as give applicants better expectations and understanding of the decisions made.
Rejection, unfortunately, is the reality of a curated project. It can be difficult to turn an application down because you can see the passion and excitement, but the work isn’t right or ready for the project. Not everyone will be accepted if they don’t meet the standards that you are looking for, and not everyone has the formal creative background through school or career to teach them how to navigate these rejections. There will be some people who don’t have experience applying to something like this before or who won’t understand why they weren’t chosen or take a rejection as a personal attack. You must be prepared for upset or inappropriate responses and be able to act calmly and professionally while sticking to your decisions, and without lashing out. If you need someone on your team skilled in PR or customer service, this will be a good time for them to help you. This is your project, and you must stick by what you set out to do.
Outreach and Promotion
How are you going to find contributors? Are you going to rely on word of mouth or ask people to join? Do you have a minimum count of people you would like to join? How are you going to spread the word? Social media accounts? What kind of content are you going to generate to keep up the attention to the project? How will you get this content-yourself or asking those interested to help?
Find your core audience and cater your posts to catch their attention. Use hashtags, graphics, buzz words etc to bolster this. Retweet/reblog/share to your stories regularly a few times a week to keep the momentum. The more you put this on people’s radar, the better chance you’ll have at it stabilizing and gaining momentum. There is no “easy step” to starting and maintaining an event.
**Remember, please DO NOT use Ao3 as a platform for promoting a monetary project. You may use it as a means of distribution and sharing but be conscious of how that work is presented. Bringing money into Ao3 risks the legality of what the OTW’s legal team has fought and won for fandom.
Finances
Things get harder when money is involved. If you plan to sell your zine or raise money through your event it is in your best interest to make it 100% not for profit. If you are creating a fanzine it is highly recommended that it is solely for charity to protect yourself from copyright and receiving a cease and desist letter (and possible legal retaliation).
This means your contributors nor you will be receiving a single monetary amount for anything, everything will be going to the charity (or charities) you have chosen. If you choose to print, you will have to account for 30-50% of your gross going to production and shipping and any other materials you may need. If you are determined to raise money, offer your zine or the content as a limited exclusive offer for a few months before allowing your contributors to post. Doing so helps drum up excitement and generate sales therefore helping you raise more money.
An easy and clean way to raise money is either through PDF sales or a fundraiser where interested supporters share a receipt of a donation so you don’t have to touch a cent. Your gross profit would then become your net profit, and you can give the entirety of the funds raised without messing with the logistics of printing and shipping. Don’t get yourself in trouble. Account for every cent.
Taxes
Talk to a tax accountant for guidance for your state and country.
While you may not be planning on counting your raised money as taxable income and donate every cent, the IRS (or other government tax offices) may not think so. Make a financial plan that protects you from owing extra income tax as some charities don’t accept PayPal donations and you will need to transfer funds through a bank account-or plan to take a small percentage to pay taxes on or consider registering as an LLC depending on how long you want to be in operation. You can then of course turn around and donate the percentage taken to truly donate every cent. Don’t get yourself in trouble. Account for every cent.
Transparency
If money is involved you MUST be transparent.
This will not only protect you and your contributors in the long run, but gain trust. This means records of all receipts, record of orders, record of donations, EVERYTHING (with your personal information blacked out). Show a record for any reimbursement of materials if you choose to take that reimbursement. Not sharing the bare bones of your financial records can open you up to questions and criticisms and grow distrust-which would then hurt future endeavors.
The first step is to open a new clean paypal account for zine-only transactions, this will help you with transparency. Don’t get yourself in trouble. Account for every cent.
Dedication
Here’s the kicker. If you don’t have the dedication to run your project, it will suffer and possibly even fail.
Running a fandom zine or event takes a lot of time and energy on your part. They simply don’t spring into existence just because you think it would be fun and you have the passion for it. Things would be so much easier if that were the case!
Some events will be easier to maintain than others, like fic exchanges. Big bangs can also be as easy or as hard as you want them to be depending on the number of contributors and if you are doing a regular-or reverse bang, or an open or closed big bang.
Zines usually require a lot more dedication and effort to complete because of printing, production, shipping, and finances. At the shortest, these endeavors can last from three months to six to eight months, with zines ranging up to a year or over depending on internal scheduling even if your supporters only see it publicly for a couple months. Even if you do try to do everything right, sometimes projects just don’t work out. Anything could happen to halt or slow down the process, but it’s up to you to keep it going if you can and if you want to.
In the end, this is a fun project that you can do. But there are many moving parts to make sure that it runs smoothly. In short: take your time, get your ducks in a row, and have a clear goal of what you want to accomplish because it will take a lot of work. Good luck!
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Hello everyone! We are so happy to announce that the final Supercorp Zine Volume 5 and 2nd Edition/Omnibus PDFs sale was able to raise a total of $54,466.51 USD!
We split our total raised amount of $54,466.51 USD evenly between The Trevor Project, the Transgender Law Center, and Futures Without Violence!
Each charity received a donation of $18,155.50 USD!!
This brings our zine’s five-year lifetime giving total to $130,272 USD.
Brief summary of images:
Donation receipt to the Trevor Project for $18,155.50 USD dated December 20, 2022
Donation receipt to the Transgender Law Center for $18,155.50 USD dated December 20, 2022
A bank wire transfer receipt to Futures Without Violence for $18,155.50 USD dated December 21, 2022 (Post will be edited in early January 2023 with the provided processed receipt from Futures, per their financial processing scheduling. See provided proof of confirmation on p4 of the financial records.)
For a full pdf document of our transaction records covering book/merchandise orders, supplies, shipping, reimbursements, as well as an added list of all purchases of Volume 5 and the 2nd Edition PDFs and Omnibus PDF from our Storenvy, please click this link to see our FULL transparency document.
You can find our previous zines’ transparency documents here.
Thank you. We can’t say it enough.
Thank you to the artists and writers who stuck through this final volume with us, and a very special thank you to the Supercorp family for helping us continue to grow this charity zine for a fifth and final year. We wouldn’t be here without your support, kindness, and love. The moderation team has been so thankful and bolstered by all of the artists and writers who participated, as well as all of you who supported your friends and the zine itself.
We hope this zine motivated you not only in your own creative endeavors and relationship with fandom, but also introduced a more grassroots and community-based activism into your lives. Thank you for helping us support our trans family and those we know and love who are victims of IPV and domestic violence. There is still so much more to be done, but the success of this zine proves that we can be stronger together and help support meaningful charities to continue that hard work. Here at the zine we hope that we energized you all to continue giving, whether that’s time or money or participating in a future charity zine. There is no gift too small, it all adds up.
But for now, this final donation marks the closing and retirement of You Are My Hero: A Supercorp Zine. Thank you for five wonderful years!
El Mayarah, the Supercorp Zine Team ❤️
Ayesha, Grace, Demi, Lisa, Batten, Monica
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Hello, I am one of the people who didn't get their zine bc of some issues and I am wondering if this would be resolved at all.. I know things are tricky but my last update about this situation was over a month ago and just wanted to know if there was hope of receiving it at all or it's all done :)
Hello! We have mailed all physical replacements and have addressed all current PDF requests. Please send us an email at [email protected] with your name and order number so we can see what's happening.
Please keep in mind that if you send us a link request for a PDF we will NOT process it. You must contact us with your order number so we can give you correct access to the file.
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Forgot to post it here so, happy late Supercorp sunday! 😅
This is a sticker I made for @supercorpzine
Wanted to do something cozy so I drew them cuddling 🫂
Enjoy the cuteness 💕
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The lil spread I did for the @supercorpzine :) This time in full :>
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Second part of my piece for the @supercorpzine Thank you all for the support and the opportunity to work on it!
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Hey. Is it still possible to buy all the supercorp zines and how do I proceed?
Thank you so much for your reply.
Hi there!
Unfortunately the zine is no longer available for sale, and will be permanently retired after we make our last donation this fall.
You can view our contributor's work through our v1, v2, v3, v4, and v5 tags here on tumblr, or browse our Instagram and Twitter pages! Thank you for your interest!
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I see you're a fan of SuperCorp. Why do you think this pairing is so popular? :)
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A Universe of Beaches
“I’m just…so glad you’re back in my life,” Kara says, wrapping Lena in a hug. Lena winds her own arms around Kara’s middle, tucks her head into the crook of Kara’s neck. “I don’t know what I’d do without you.“
“I don’t know what I’d do without you, either.” And maybe it’s the four glasses of wine, but Lena feels suddenly overcome with the truth of that sentiment, and three little words she’s never said to Kara start to claw their way up her throat.
She only realizes she’s opened her mouth as if to speak when Kara prompts her, whispers, “What is it?”
Lena panics.
She can’t, won’t lie and say ‘nothing,’ and her mind scrambles until two words in an unfamiliar tongue come out of her mouth before she can stop them. “El mayarah.”
Kara’s arms tighten around her. “El mayarah, Lena.”
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Four times Lena tries to say ‘I love you’ to Kara only for it to come out ‘El mayarah’ instead, and the one time Kara figures it out. Read it here on ao3.
It was a complete privilege to get to write this for volume 5 of the @supercorpzine. This fandom has been (and continues to be even now) full of spectacular people doing phenomenal things and sharing so much with each other…I loved the zine from the beginning and it’s a true honor to have gotten to be part of the end.
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Second piece I did for Supercorp zine. It’s one of my favorite drawings I have done for the zine.
@supercorpzine
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finally, here's my contribution for supercorp zine volume 5!
@supercorpzine
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Hi! Obviously no rush as you guys have am insane amount to do, but I was wondering if you had a rough ETA for when you plan to post how much we raised for V5? Thanks!
Hi! We are hoping to make those donations very soon. Currently we are in the process of sending out our (Only!!! So much better than last year!!) batch of replacements for damaged and lost zines and gathering up our transparency records. Once those zines are on the way we intend to wrap up our last moderation tasks and make those donations and announcements.
One thing we can say, is that you guys really blew it out of the water. So hang on for us just a little longer!
#supercorp#v5#mod grace#we had a smidge of a late start for preorders and production so this donation delay is understandable!
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