The Robot6 Blog just posted a bunch of photos from writer/artist Jeff Lemire‘s studio and it turns out he’s had a few books bound. It should come as no surprise that his bound volumes include lots of Legion of Super-Heroes books if you’re familiar with his love of the Superboy character.

I wonder what other popular comic creators are into comic binding?

So, anyone going to try and do their own books now?

I’d like to point everyone over to http://www.donnyd.com/comics/, not only does he have a great list of binding related resources, he also has a great template generator that’s handy for creating your custom covers for binding your books. Head on over to Donny D’s site and give it a try and be sure to say thanks for this handy utility.

Since I’m just starting to work on my first set of binds, but I want to contribute some content, I thought I’d post a quick grab of one of my custom covers I’m working on. The first batch of books I send off to LBC will all have custom covers. I wanted some sort of template to use – thinking I’d have different ones for Marvel and DC.

Using the Essential and Showcase volumes as a starting point, here’s what I’ve got so far for Shogun Warriors 1-20 (and Fantastic Four #226).

Still very much a work in progress – but it’s getting close. I’ve got to come up with a consistent spine design. Might use something similar to the DC Showcase Presents books and change it up a little for Marvel.

The background on the back cover is a page from Shogun Warriors #1 with a half-tone filter applied and then the colors overlaid on it. I think it came out looking pretty cool.

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