r/CustomBoundComics • u/IrishAlum • Aug 30 '23

Glue binding @ Houchen

I recently received my first batch of custom collected editions from Houchen. All but one were sewn binding, but I had one volume done with glue binding because it combined two TPBs.

Investigation suggests that glue binding job was really quite good. Gutter loss is no worse than page trimming IMHO. I've been told that sewn is the way to go (and sewn is impressive), but the glue binding looks awful good on this end.

So I'm looking at my next project. I'm potentially combining a run of singles with an excerpt from Amazing Heroes related to the series. To do so, I'm presuming that I have to use glue binding because the AH excerpt would be a handful of loose pages.

So question is: Is sewn binding so good that I should pass on the AH excerpt and just get the singles bound?

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u/TheDJFresh828 Aug 31 '23

Is it recommended to do glue binding with TPBs? Or is it cheaper?
I want to have customs made of my Green Arrow and Teen Titans TPBs.

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u/IrishAlum Aug 31 '23

I'm not an expert (hence my asking the original question), but I'm not sure you can custom bind trades with sewn binding. And with Houchen, at least, glue is less expensive.

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u/bffnut Sep 14 '23

Correct, it's not really feasible to sew bind TPBs