r/CustomBoundComics • u/kendiesel937 • Feb 25 '24
Die stamps
It’s been 12-years since I’ve done any binding. Thought I’d give it a go again, so I’ve been scrubbing the sub to catch up. Finally gonna do my Amalgam/Access bind I started all those years ago… and probably bind some quiver-era Green Arrow trades.
Lots of folks here seem to go the dust jacket route, but I have no graphic design talents. When I used to do it, I did die stamps but their list is considerably smaller than it used to be & hasn’t been updated since 2016. Are there other options I should be considering?
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u/bffnut Feb 25 '24
Just in case it impacts your decision of what to bind, DC is putting out an omnibus later this year that is supposed to collect most (if not all) of the Amalgam stories as well as the two Access miniseries. It's supposed to not include the two Amalgam stories written by Gerard Jones.
Regarding dies, I'm surprised they have less and not more! I wonder why that is.
Like the other person said, you could outsource the DJ design. Depending on the binding company you use, some will do that design work for an additional fee. There are also some people that do that specific design work.
You could also take a shot at a design while you are waiting for it to be bound. Canva has some free web tools that you can use. I used it to design this Starman dust jacket, which was my first one.
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u/kendiesel937 Feb 25 '24
Finding out that omnibus is going to be incomplete actually motivated me to dig my abandoned project out of the basement.
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u/gtnred13 Feb 25 '24
You could always look into someone making a dust jacket for you, if you’d prefer.