#alex kreycek

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My second and third casebound attempts! I decided to start binding with some of the older fanfic I’d saved over the years. The Northwest Passage series by torch was one of THE big Mulder/Krycek fic back in the day. It’s a canon divergent slash (m/m) casefic and romance, and spawned an entire fanworks zine project.

This was my first try at printing covers on bookcloth. My bookcloth is all DIY, and for this one, I took a piece of a 100% cotton bedsheet, ironed it onto some freezer paper, ran it through a laser printer, and then peeled off the freezer paper and backed it with iron-on fusibile interfacing and scrape paper before making the case.

The spine is acrylic paint applied over a Cricut-cut vinyl stencil, and I was extremely annoyed with myself when I smeared a bit of white on the cover of Ghosts in the last few seconds of paint application. Whatever! I’m still really happy with how it turned out. 

Some interior shots...

And for the nostalgia value, here’s my original “bound” version, formatted to cram as much text per page as possible, and printed and coil-bound at the campus copy shop circa 2001.