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Binding Services Update

While I am no longer taking orders, customers can contact Single Bound Studios - http://www.singleboundstudios.com/ - David Banks is relaunching Single Bound Studios and will offer all the services that I previously offered, from art to prep and beyond.

They will have access to any art I designed previously, so if wish to match a volume that will be totally doable.

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Big News

Welp, big announcement time: I will no longer be taking new orders. I'll be directing folks to Houchen Bindery (who has done all the binding work for me anyway) and will have more details on that very soon.

Everything is great with me; I just found out I will be moving to Japan, which I'm very very excited about. But obviously being there makes helping folks with binding difficult :)

I hope to be able to do some graphic design once I'm settled, but that's a-ways down the road.

It's been a blast meeting and working with so many comic fans and I'm going to really miss it.  I can't thank you enough for all the support.

On the upside (for you all anyway!) I will be letting go of quite a few of my own personal binds, so keep your eyes peeled for those soon.

Thanks!

-Kirk

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I'm selling a bunch of trade paperbacks and hardcovers on ebay - perfect for binding, if you get the urge :) Lots of full runs, including Swamp Thing runs by Mark Millar, Brian K. Vaughan and Charles Soule, New 52 series like Red Hood & the Outlaws, Demon Knights, and Jeff Lemire's Animal Man, Vertigo series Fables, American Vampire, and Unwritten, Ed Brubaker's Daredevil run, and a huge 13 hardcover lot of Geoff Johns New 52 Justice League, including Trinity War, Darkseid War (with tie-ins), Shazam, and more!

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Hey folks,

We've got a completed bind for sale, collecting some of pre-Flashpoint Kara Zor-El Supergirl stories! Custom cover, dust jacket, and TOC. It was commissioned by a customer who never paid, so is looking for a good home!

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Just a quick note to let you know we will be on vacation from October 20 - November 4. We will have limited internet access so will reply to you as soon as possible. Thank you!

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Another set of custom-bound books featuring Ann Nocenti's Daredevil run! For these, in addition to custom dust jackets and table of contents pages, we put together some custom end sheets, which turned out pretty snazzy :)

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The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe! Three volumes collecting all 15 issues of the 1983 series, all 20 issues of the 1985 series, plus the 8 issues of the '89 Update series. If you have comics collecting dust in longboxes and would prefer to have them in nice, easier-to-store hardcovers, email us at comicbindingpro@gmail.com to get started!

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Here we have a smyth sewn Punisher by Edmondson/Gerads bind we designed for a customer! In addition to putting together the cover art, we also designed the table of contents page. Feast your eyes!

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And today we have some pics supplied by a customer of some New 52 Batman-related binds: Snyder/Capullo Batman and Tomasi/Gleason Batman & Robin!

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We recently helped Walt Flanagan of @comicbookmen and @tellemstevedave37fame get some books bound! Here is Walt showing off his fresh new custom hardcovers of three of the books he did with fellow CBM and Steve Dave-er Bryan Johnson: Cryptozoic Man, War of the Undead, and Karney. We took the trade paperbacks of those titles and prepped them to be bound into hardcovers, made custom covers and dust jackets, and formatted and printed some unused art that Walt provided as bonusmaterial for each volume.

Additionally, we worked on some books from Walt's back issue collection, including a full run of John Ostrander's Grimjack (7 volumes, including the two Munden's Bar annuals, The Gift, and Crossroads, with a connecting spine image across the entire set), Steve Gerber's Foolkiller (done Marvel Omnibus-style), and a two-issue magazine-sized book called Hell Rider.

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Our first Crossgen project! This is a bind for Chuck Dixon's Way of the Rat we made for a customer; it is DFA bound with red/white head/tailbands with a red ribbon, a custom cover and a custom table of contents page.

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We received some pics from a customer of some recently completed Spider-Binds! In one volume is J.M. DeMatteis and Sal Buscema's run on Spectacular Spider-Man, and the other is the uncollected Tom DeFalco run on Spider-Girl.

The customer wanted these to look like classic Marvel omnis, so we did our best to get as close as possible. These were DFA bound, with dust jackets, custom table of contents pages, and the Spectacular Spider-Man bind also had some custom end papers we whipped up.

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Still on the DC event kick (we'll post some non-DC stuff next, don't worry!), we received an order this past week to make a two volume Infinite Crisis set out of a bunch of trade paperbacks.

But this wasn't just a case of removing some covers and stacking the trades to bind them as-is. With our handy dandy exacto knife, a blow dryer, and some patience, we organized the content from the trades into the reading order the customer requested. This also involved scanning and reprinting some pages to avoid duplicate pages, as well as printing out covers for issues that the original trades did not include covers for.

So here are some process pictures from that! We have the stack of trades before we got to work, some pictures of the final stacks ready for binding, and a picture of the leftover material (trade covers, issues that got duplicated, etc)

So if you've ever had a bunch of trades and wished they were hardcovers, don't feel left out - you can bind those too!

Email us at comicbindingpro@gmail.com to get started!

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One more set of DC events, this time of some 90s events: Armageddon 2001, Bloodlines, and Eclipso: The Darkness Within (paired with a bind of the Eclipso ongoing series.)

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And it's Friday! Continuing our posts of DCU event binds, here is FLASHPOINT! Four volumes of the full saga, smyth sewn with red head/tailbands and yellow ribbons.

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Following on from the Blackest Night binds we featured previously, today we have Brightest Day! Smyth sewn, with red & white ribbons and white head/tail bands. Next post we'll have be focusing on the event that changed everything in the DCU: FLASHPOINT!

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This week we're going to feature some binds we did for a customer centering on some of the huge events DC Comics put out just prior to the New 52. First up: Blackest Night!

This was a five volume set with custom covers, custom dust jackets, and custom table of contents pages. They were smyth sewn from the original single issues and also have black & gold head and tail bands and black ribbons. 

So if you'd prefer your floppies be turned into some really nice hardcovers like these, rather than taking up space in a long box, give us a shout! comicbindingpro@gmail.com