Comic Book Binding

[Thwizzit]

Always nice to see someone bind Rom...

Thanks, it was a lot of fun to do :-)

I'm not sure if it was obvious in my initial post that the words "Rom has Come!!" was a link to see the rest of the book on my gallery website.. I did a lot of extras and didn't want to upload all thirty or so images in a single post.. So... if it wasn't obvious that there was more to look at... you can see a lot more pictures of the ROMnibus on my site at HARDCOVER HEROES

I also just uploaded images from another recent bind that was fun to do titled SKETCHBOOK.. which I bound about 25 of my favorite Sketchbook-type comics like the Earth X sketchbook and the Marvel Rough Cuts and those old WIZARD magazine preview sketchbook comics, basically anything that wasn't inked..







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[The Whovian]

ROM HAS COME!!!




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WOW! That is awesome! This is a series I've always wanted, but never got around to getting. Maybe someday the series will get reprinted or I'll just get the floppies and bind them. I love how you spread the spin image over all three volumes. So cool!

[Thwizzit]

WOW! That is awesome!

Thanks :-)


Final update from the last batch of books.. added images to my HUMOR COLLECTION

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[The Whovian]

Can I ask where you got your books bound and how much it cost to get the image on the covers and spines?

[Thwizzit]

I get mine done at Houchen Bindery, all the info is on this page :-)

Houchen Comic Book Binding







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[bearded_adam]

The Whovian
About 100$ for images(from folks i call my friends, ha) Binding was done by small and not so while ago opened firm from Russia.
Here is their site, but it's not opened yet http://hardcovers.ru/
and few pictures of recent books
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VJnKmrsI77E.jpg

[The Whovian]

The Whovian
About 100$ for images(from folks i call my friends, ha) Binding was done by small and not so while ago opened firm from Russia.
Here is their site, but it's not opened yet http://hardcovers.ru/
and few pictures of recent books
2IbOF8Dzg3U.jpg
VJnKmrsI77E.jpg

Oh, sweet books! Thanks

[The Whovian]

I get mine done at Houchen Bindery, all the info is on this page :-)

Houchen Comic Book Binding

Thanks. So it looks like about $55 for each book then. Does that sound right? That's a pretty fair price.

[Thwizzit]

The base price is about $25 and if you add things like a ribbon bookmark ($2), head and tail bands ($4), black end paper ($2), oversewn binding ($7) etc. each extra adds a few dollars to a bind but you don't have to do those things.. I feel like the biggest expense is the Shipping.. Depending on how you send it the shipping could total $50 round-trip, so if you have 7 Volumes done that's another $7 per book so I suppose it does end up around $50 each not including the cost/price/value of the books.. it's definitely not a cheap or cost effective hobby but it sure is fun :-)





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[The Whovian]

The base price is about $25 and if you add things like a ribbon bookmark ($2), head and tail bands ($4), black end paper ($2), oversewn binding ($7) etc. each extra adds a few dollars to a bind but you don't have to do those things.. I feel like the biggest expense is the Shipping.. Depending on how you send it the shipping could total $50 round-trip, so if you have 7 Volumes done that's another $7 per book so I suppose it does end up around $50 each not including the cost/price/value of the books.. it's definitely not a cheap or cost effective hobby but it sure is fun :-)

Yeah, it's not cheap, but it is fun and they look gorgeous on the shelf. I also have a bunch of sets in floppies that I need to bind and I never bought the omnis of the series because I'm a completest. For example, I have the whole run of DD v2 that I'm going to get bound and skipped on the omnis because they didn't include every issue.

I also have sets like the Exiles that have never been reprinted in OHC or omnis, so I have to get them bound.

We're selling our house this summer, so I won't get anything done until we move into our new house (hopefully, we find the perfect house), and then I hope to use a portion of our equity to get everything bound. I'm going to see if Kirk can help me with it all.

[Dick Grayson]

I'm going to see if Kirk can help me with it all.

Ready when you are!

And while I don't think I can compete with the above ROM binds, here are some dust jackets I made, two different spine designs:

[Dick Grayson]

[Dick Grayson]

The actual files are CMYK, these JPGs are RBG so look a bit faded, but you get the idea!

[TomSlick]

What’s the map for Rom? Is it essentially the series and some annuals? Also, it’s only been released in floppies right?

[The Whovian]

Ready when you are!

It will probably be late summer before I can start doing it. BTW, those Rom images are amazing! If I ever get the set bound, I know who to talk to about the images