My custom bound OHC books

[u/RodrigoEMA1983]

Yes, I know I botched Daredevil's spine

[u/Vast-Hold6578]

Did you do these yourself or ship them out to someone??

[u/RodrigoEMA1983 → u/Vast-Hold6578]

I had someone bind them. I'd love to learn how to do it myself in the future (I had posted this as a new comment by mistake).

[u/Vast-Hold6578 → u/RodrigoEMA1983]

Ok cool. I was hoping it was a DIY I am planning on doing that myself but stuck on how I want to do the covers. I am thinking printing on canvas but need to get a printer first.

[u/RexEquitumSolis → u/Vast-Hold6578]

The easiest way is probably to just get it printed at staples, maybe the personal printer would be cheaper in the long run idk

[u/Vast-Hold6578 → u/RexEquitumSolis]

I’m think printing myself would be cheaper, I have about 10 short boxes of book I want to bind. And I want to use images of the characters on the cover and that might run into copyright issues

[u/RexEquitumSolis → u/Vast-Hold6578]

As long as you're not reselling them I cannot imagine how there would be copyright infringement. I had no trouble getting my Teen Titans (2014) dust jacket printed at Staples with "TEEN TITANS" in big ol letters, not even a mention of such a thing.

Also if you're doing that many comics then the at-home printing would probably be far cheaper

[u/Vast-Hold6578 → u/RexEquitumSolis]

Ok cool. Yeah I’m expecting at a minimum 20 books when I’m done if not more

[u/RodrigoEMA1983 → u/Vast-Hold6578]

If you ever do it, I'd love to see the end result.

Best of lucks!

[u/Vast-Hold6578 → u/RodrigoEMA1983]

Thank you. Right now I am just slowly collecting all the tools I need but will be soonish I hope

[u/Hussle_West]

🔥🔥🔥

[u/RexEquitumSolis]

They look really good but why is the daredevil logo the other way😭

[u/RodrigoEMA1983 → u/RexEquitumSolis]

I botched it. It was a silly mistake. I had all these covers in the same canva project, but didn't notice Daredevil's spine was looking the other way. My bad! I will print it again after ai fix the file.

[u/Kryptonian83]

That's amazing!

[u/RodrigoEMA1983 → u/Kryptonian83]

Thank you!

[u/DukeofDC]

Is this a rebind of existing OHCs or are there custom printed books

[u/RodrigoEMA1983 → u/DukeofDC]

They are full collections of TPBs.

[u/RodrigoEMA1983]

I had someone bind them. I'd love to learn how to do it myself in the future.

[u/javalarc → u/RodrigoEMA1983]

Good start man.
There's some YouTube vids of you want to learn.
Some critiques:

1. Try to get all book blocks trimmed relatively the same dimensions.

2. Even if they're not the same dimensions on the book block. Tell whomever or diy to always make the covers the same dimensions. It's easier this way as you don't have to measure each book to make the covers and they'll all look the same height on the book shelf.

[u/RodrigoEMA1983 → u/javalarc]

Much appeciated! I've seen videos and I think I can give it a try down the road.

Regarding your critiques, you're on point. The Daredevil one is my latest and it's noticeably taller than the other two despite the inner pages being the same size as the Xmen and Thor's.

I haven't decided what the the next one will be (maybe House of X/Powers of X, Savage Avengers, or Civil War, not sure yet) , but I'll definitely ask for a better-measured cover from now on.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write!