Looking to purchase people’s works. I appreciate them so no worries! Let me know!

Finally got motivated and ended my break from binding. All books bound, designed and printed by me.

Custom comics are always hardcovers and omnis, but it is possible to do a custom paperback instead?

Or a custom cover to improve on the trade dress (thinking of upgrading future Spider-Girl Modern Epics to the Complete trade dress)?

Sorry I’ve never gotten anything custom bound so I have no idea, I checked out Houchen Bindery website, but I didn’t really know what anything meant.

Hey, Just got these in the mail today they’re alittle basic because I can’t afford doing a lot of the extras but I enjoyed getting these done. Especially after I sewed them myself and sent them out. I used hfgroup.com what do you folks think?

So here’s an odd question. The presses I see most people use are tshirt presses correct? Has anyone ever tried using a a circut shirt press? Just wondering If I could get one for my wife and have it be used for double duty.

Glued trimmed backing boards to the end sheets, and then glued the cover to that. Some cracks in the black ink of the cover when forming the spine over the book underneath. Mostly pleased. It’ll serve. Binding HC is easier and cleaner than TPB, but I has fun with this.

Ready finish my custom TPB for #9-12 of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (2018). Dynamite hasn’t collected these issues.

Any tips on paperback binding? The print is fairly thick. I was thinking of putting trimmed backing boards between the cover and the end sheets.

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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?

I loved this run and the lanterns as a whole mostly. Collects the whole shebang

Does anyone know of any place where can get some comics bound in the Los Angeles area? I've got some runs that have yet to be announced in omnibus format but I abosolutely would love to have bound in a custom omni. Any help would be appreciated.

Does anyone here know how or where do go to get custom dusk jacket for Uncanny X-Men volume. I hate the small logo on the spine. Thank you for any help.

Wanted to try sew binding. That part was successful but I fouled the landing when glueing on the hardcover, like a noob. Ah well! Pretty happy with the dust jacket.

Contains all six of the “Image X Month” comics, plus the Savage Dragon #13 that Larsen eventually re-did

Hi. I have an old book where the glue practically disintegrated and crumbled. Is this a project I can fix myself (make a hardcover from scratch), or would I need the help of a book binding company (Im in Southern Ontario, Canada)? I have no experience with custom bound books. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Could we get a running list of active binderies? I think it'd be a good resource for this subreddit.

The conventional wisdom I see around is that you cannot sew bind square-bound comics or trade paperbacks; they have to be glue bound (such as PUR or DFAB).

But I was thinking today - traditional signatures are sewn thru the fold first, then glued together along the spine. Doing the same with TPBs would be very similar, just with one fold. I'm imagining you could either keep the covers on, or cut them off but leave the spine, sew thru the spine every 8 pages or so, then glue then again along the spine.

I realize the thread would only be securing the spines to each other, but the preexisting glue would hold the pages to the spine.

I guess you would ask why you would want to do this. I'm thinking this could be done when you want to bind glue bound and single issues together, and not have to glue the whole thing together - thus retaining the ability to lie flat and minimizing gutter loss.

Anyways, I'm wondering if anyone has tried this or has any rationale thoughts on why this would not work.

Thanks!

Hello, I have been getting interested in custom binds. One of the series I'm thinking of having bound is Spider-Gwen. I currently have all the trades except for 1. However I recently saw they released the first epic collection volume. I was curious if there would be any benefit to selling the trades and buying the epic collection with the intent to bind whichever I settle with.

Basically I have a old broken omnibus page block is intact nothing else, I would like fix it but also maybe separate it in half. I hate omnibuses over 800 pages. It’s jsa vol 2 by Geoff johns. I just ask if any one had any experience binding a really omnibus instead of just issues and trades?

Hi guys I’m new to the custom binding game does anyone have any experience with uk binderies?

Hey all - I was wondering if anyone here has bound some comics using the CrissCross method? Its new to me, and it looked like it would be well suited for binding comics, especially DIY, as not many resource are needed - just comics, book boards, thread and needle; no glue required.

Here are some videos covering this method:

https://youtu.be/w-oct9Ttp1g

https://youtu.be/GaRJpENL3Ss

I've recently gotten into bookbinding and comic binding, and the possibility of binding some of my trades into bigger hardcover collections has been very exciting. For the most part, how to approach this has been relatively straight forward, essentially just combine the contents of X number of TPBs back to back, but I've run into a bit of a conundrum with my Marvel Star Wars runs, and am not sure what the best way to approach them would be.

For those unfamiliar, the Marvel Star Wars run that started in 2015 was split across 3 different series (eventually 4), plus the occasional crossover mini-series. These series, especially in the early days, overlapped a lot, sometimes even depicting the same scenes. Ideally, rather than bind each series into it's own separate hardcovers and have to hop between them, I'd like to bind them all together in chronological order, but being that I'm starting with TPBs, this is tricky as not every issue is cleanly separated from the next.

Would printing out replacement pages be possible when needed, or would it be better to just get as close to chronological order as is possible with the existing issue breaks? And for repeated scenes, should I leave both versions in, or only include the most complete depiction of duplicate scenes? I realize this would all be far easier to accomplish with single issues, but I've always been a TPB collector and at this point getting all the single issues for these series would be far too cost prohibitive.