Show and Tell! Hardcover Book Binding: Jamie Hewlett's Fireball, Slash Maraud, and Street Angel

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[@danielw3850]

This was amazing, I also love how well designed these were, comic publishers really need to hire you to design hardcovers.

[@PunkerMike]

Incredible!!! Jim Rugg you're a madman!!

[@panthiopliconica]

This was a real treat. I do bookbinding as a hobby, usually making blank books, sometimes from scratch (using cloth, thermoweb paper, and tissue ironed together as the cover sheets), and sometimes from books that I've taken apart (I've got a handful of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books that I've turned into lined paper journals). I've never thought to use this to compile comics. So when I saw that you were putting these together, I was really inspired. That Fireball anthology looks amazing, and I hope it inspires Jamie Hewlett to get someone to anthologize them. Thanks!

[@fausty616]

Haven't bound anything indie style like this, but have fallen deep down the rabbit hole with using binderies. A lot of the defunct 80s and 90s publishers covered in the Wizard videos are prime candidates. Anything Valiant, Malibu, CrossGen, Milestone, Chaos!, Event, Impact. Elementals and Jonny Quest from Comico. DNAgents, ESPers, Scout from Eclipse. American Flagg, E-Man, Whisper from First. ROM and Micronauts are perfect as titles that are unlikely to ever get properly reprinted due to rights. Big Two obscurities and hidden gems like Priest & Cowan's Steel, Young Heroes in Love, Chronos, Scare Tactics, Terror Inc, Sleepwalker, Power Company. You guys have turned me on to possibilities like Faust. Also massive projects that publishers would never commit resources toward completion or uniformity. I recently got back a five volume set of Firestorm covering 1978-1990. My 90s nostalgic neurosis has me working toward a six volume Ghost Rider set covering Mackie's run, which balloons out of control due to crossovers, Marvel Comics Presents arcs, etc.

[@amedeomodigliani4389]

Vincent Faust all great suggestions, I definitely want to find a series to collect just to bind in nice hardcover like this

[@ChuckArnold1]

Jim, great work, seems like a challenging and meticulous process. Paul Pope's THB has never been collected, I think that would make a pretty sweet hardcover collecting THB 1-5 and 6 (a-d)

[@ComicsMATTER]

This was awesome.

[@martinoakley1662]

Beautiful work, well done. I wrote a little bit of Fireball for Jamie and I’d sure like to see it come around again. I don’t think it’s high on mr H’s agenda though.

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

I'd love a good collection of Fireball and Freebies in English. - Jim

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

I'd also be down for an Artist Edition.

[@danwilson2310]

Jim is so modest. I'm very impressed. Brilliant design and craftsmanship.

[@ragecat1447]

That fireball bootleg book is INSANE ! Props to you - it looks AMAZING.

[@diegomayamedina9179]

I am very bad in this kind of manual work myself, so congratulations to Jim for a job well done!

[@apexcomix3200]

Great educational experience, Jim. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@johnny2tons]

This is awesome! I've been wanting to try binding some of my 90's comics that no one else wants a trade of. I know there are companies you can ship them off too, but that's way too expensive for me. Thanks for doing this, guys!

[@ianm1537]

Looks great, I want to try it! I have Video Jack and Marshall Law from epic in the ‘80s, they’d enjoy this treatment.

[@MrPaulart228]

Really cool stuff. About 10 years ago I had a book binder create two volumes for me. A collection of Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit stories and the complete run of Leave it to Chance by James Robinson and Paul Smith.

[@TimClary]

Goddamn! These are fantastic and that Fireball art looks amazing! Can’t wait to see what other gems you decide to give the Kayfabe treatment to!

[@JimMahfood]

This is incredibly impressive, Jim! Fantastic work, homie!

[@xcornmuffinx]

Usually, I do this for sketchbooks so I can make weird bindings and covers for them. I have a velvet sketchbook, a furry sketchbook, and one I made out of some old clothes. I should try to make some of these books like this. The idea of scanning some stuff and printing them out at a larger size seems alright. Finally, as the only remaining fan of L.E.G.I.O.N., I can get a bound omnibus!

[@firdawesome3203]

This is so inspiring. They look amazing for your first book-binding project!

[@andersbrnserud6692]

Beautiful and inspiring!

[@vincentbatten4686]

I will definitely be getting on this game soon!

[@tmbglouie1]

That Fireball cover is great. I'd like to see Jim design a Clowes's Uggly Family collection.

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

I love that idea! I might look around and see how much Uggly Family I have easy access to. - Jim

[@gypsumfantastic23]

Amazing. Superb work

[@skrimshander]

You guys are genius!

[@comicKkrakK]

man, you guys lit a fire under my ass. Amazing work Jim. I'm definitely going to try my hand at this...maybe with the Shakey Kane strips from REVOLVE?? Thanks for this one!

[@GoldenChiild]

Wow really nice job Jim. What issues of Deadline had the fireball chapters?

[@TheGodlessCosmonaut]

I've been looking into getting stuff bound, didn't realize it was this easy to do yourself (and look good to boot). Great picks too, it's criminal that Slash Maraud was never collected in English. Think I'd have to go for binding Wagner and Kennedy's OUTCASTS, Otomo and Nagayasu's MOTHER SARAH, and all of the first TERROR INC volume (for dat Zaffino) to start.

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

Terror Inc is a good one. Mother Sarah has crossed my mind too.

[@richdannys2906]

I'd love to have it as a book. But it doesn't look like it's every going to happen.. I took an entire run of Mike Kaluta's "Carson of Venus" stories that appeared in DC's KORAK - Son Of Tarzan.. And assembled then into a poor man's version of a book, using sheet protectors and a binder, purchased from Staples.. I suspect that there are issues with the Edgar Rice Burrough's estate, that prevent DC from making their own version.

[@JoshuaHoaglund]

Great Episode again. I want to do one now. #Inspiration Thanks Jim!

[@amedeomodigliani4389]

When you’re done doing all the wizard mags you can bind them together (although I’m not sure that they deserve the treatment)

[@sdowdca]

I am inspired, been thinking about doing this with my collection of 2001

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

2001 is on my list too. Same with 1963.

[@serialborxes]

i really want all of these but i really need a actual version of fireball in my life.

[@popfuntoplay]

Very cool stuff

[@antonwblake]

A hardcover of Chester Brown's Gospel adaptations would be an interesting one to do.

[@paulocosta4744]

There's a Slash Maraud collection? I must have it!

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

It's like the Highlander - there is only 1.

[@vancelindsley482]

Hey Jim, for printing the covers and the fireball pages, what sort of scanner printer did you use or would you suggest?

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

I have an EPSON WF-7720 scanner and I used Best Value Copy to print. Here's a link bit.ly/2Dxx4tT . I chose 24# white bond paper.

[@davideking]

@@CartoonistKayfabe Whoa, is Best Value Copy cheaper than printing local color xerox? I'm out of the loop on pricing that kind of stuff

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

I think so. They do very inexpensive 11 x 17 and 13 x 19 poster printing too. The key is to do $125 and get free shipping.

[@andretfg]

I think Nth Man The Ultimate Ninja would make for a cool book.

[@leestevenson80]

Jim I hate you! These look amazing and I’m now going to have to try it!

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

ha ha! It was enjoyable. You'll have fun and if I can do it, I'm sure you can too! - Jim

[@outofthemox]

Way too meticulous of a task for my taste, but you made some excellent books, Jim!

[@goshalevochkin877]

please make more. amazing work (heavy metal mags),( best of zap comics). (best of splash pages underground and mainstream) :-0

[@aldoortiz2572]

This custon binding made in the jail ,Thats beuty work this dare