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8/31

Stopped by Bindery 59 to pick up a finished book. Got it photographed, packed and shipped.

Got caught up on answering emails. Spent several hours working on a complicated Miracleman project. When I ran out of steam I went back to prepping books.

8/30

Photographed, packed and shipped finished Bindery 59 books. Unpacked and organized new orders that had arrived. Stopped by Snow Dog's to pick up some convention samples.

Nine books arrived to be made into Capitol bindery hardcover volumes.

three books arrived to be made into Bindery 59 hardcover volumes.

Three books arrived to be made into Snow Dog softcover volumes.

Hardcover Score Card - Capitol
16 books at Capitol to be bound.
21 books at my house waiting to go to the bindery.
2 books are on hold

Hardcover Score Card - Snow Dog
6 books at Snow Dog to be bound.
4 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery

Soft Cover Score Card - Snow Dog
0 books at Snow Dog to be bound.
11 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery.

Hardcover Score Card - Bindery 59
21 books at Bindery 59 to be bound.
17 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery

8/29

Spent 4 hours answering emails and doing book prep.

8/28

Had breakfast with Kevin, Mike and Yan. We discussed eBay sales, what is being said on the boards and current projects.

No new books from Kevin this week. He spent last week working on a large non-comic project.

Mike had 8 books ready.

He said he'd have one more on Tuesday.

Spent the afternoon answering emails and doing book prep.

8/27

Shipped some finsihed books and dustjackets, then spent the rest of the day answering emails and doing book prep.

8/26

Walked. Answered emails. Picked up three laminated dustjackets. Got the dust jackets and the books packed and shipped. Spent the rest of the day unpacking orders and doing book prep.

One book arrived to be made in a Capitol Bindery hardcover volume.

8/25

Up early to walk, then heard from Tilford that they had three dustjackets ready for pickup. Picked them up and took them to Todd at Snow Dog to be laminated. Then it was off to Krypton comics to pick up some replacement issues for a binding project. Two issues were supplied already mis-cut so it was easier to pick up the replacements. Back at the office I worked on preping books for the rest of the day.

Two books arrived to be made into Capitol Bindery hardcover volumes.

8/24

Another busy day. Two hour walk, then down to Bindery 59 to pick up 4 finished books.

Got these photographed, packed and shipped. Then it was back to a variety of details on a variety of projects.

14 books arrived to be made into Bindery 59 hardcover volumes.

8/23

Busy, busy day. Up early for a 2 hour walk. Yes, two hours. Got to be in convention shape for the Mid-Ohio Con. Then it was off to Snow Dog to pick up 14 finished soft cover and 4 hardcover volumes. Then to the post office to mail finished books that I received on Saturday. After that I stopped by Krypton Comics to drop off some Snow Dog soft cover books that they had ordered. Then it was home to photograph and pack the other finished Snow Dog books. Next back to the Post Office to ship more books but they informed me that I can only visit them once a day, "a rule of theirs." They were just kidding. Then it was back home to prep more books. Back to cover building on Tuesday.

8/22

Yan sent over a couple images of one of his favorite projects. I think you'll agree he has a flair for the "extreme."

Interesting how there are two different blocks of pages.

Had fun with eBay auctions! (Fun = money)

8/21

Had breakfast with Kevin (Capitol), Mike (Bindery 59) and Yan. We continued to discuss plans for the Mid-Ohio Con in November. Yan showed us some of the fonts he has in his collection and a diagram of how he keeps track of them. I plan to mimic his system to post available fonts on the web showing what each bindery has.

Picked up three finished books from Kevin.

Mike said I would have four more books for sure by Tuesday and maybe another 9 at that time also depending on how well the stamping goes.

Todd called and said he had 14 softcovers and 4 hardcovers done and ready for pickup. He might have another 6 hardcovers done by Tuesday.

Three books arrived to be made into Capitol Bindery hardcover volumes.

Hardcover Score Card - Capitol
16 books at Capitol to be bound.
9 books at my house waiting to go to the bindery.
2 books are on hold

Hardcover Score Card - Snow Dog
10 books at Snow Dog to be bound.
4 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery

Soft Cover Score Card - Snow Dog
14 books at Snow Dog to be bound.
8 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery.

Hardcover Score Card - Bindery 59
34 books at Bindery 59 to be bound.
0 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery

8/20

More work on cover designs. I am so close on several of them.

8/19

Up early to continue working on cover designs for several projects. Then in the evening had dinner with Todd at Snow Dog. We went over the progress of the 24 books he has in the shop and then talked about the Mid-Ohio Con at length.

8/18

Answered emails, did administrative paperwork and then took a half-day off.

Two books arrived to be made into Snow Dog soft cover volumes.

8/17

Prepped some new books for Capitol. Heard from Todd at Snow Dog. Looks like he will have some books finished for me by Thursday. He and I will have dinner then to discuss his part in the Mid-Ohio Con exhibition.

Heard back from the customer on the stamping sample for some Bindery 59 books. Dropped off the choice to Mike and picked up four finished books from him. I was surprised to hear that white buckram can no longer be ordered.

Lovely set of Hawkman books. Being a Marvel guy I missed most DC comics when they first came out. I enjoyed thumbing through this before packing it.

Stopped by Capitol to show him art for a die being made for a non-comic customer.

Continued to work on designs for various covers.

8/16

Got the finished Capitol Bindery books from Saturday photographed, packed and shipped out today along with a bunch of finished eBay auctions (23 priority mail boxes in all).

Stopped by Bindery 59 to pick up a stamping sample from Mike to email to a customer. The went over to Capitol to meet with Kevin who needed some help having a die made for a non-comic customer.

Continued to work on designs for various covers.

5 books arrived to be made into Capitol Bindery hardcover volumes.

8/15

Took the day off from binding and played around with some eBay auctions.

8/14

Had breakfast with Kevin, Mike and Yan. We mostly discussed the upcoming Mid-Ohio Con.

Picked up 8 finished books from Kevin (Capitol) and dropped off 16 to work on.

Then went over to Mike's to look the progress he was making on an 8 book set and dropped off 21 more books for him to work on.

Hardcover Score Card - Capitol
19 books at Capitol to be bound.
1 books at my house waiting to go to the bindery.
2 books are on hold

Hardcover Score Card - Snow Dog
10 books at Snow Dog to be bound.
1 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery

Soft Cover Score Card - Snow Dog
14 books at Snow Dog to be bound.
6 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery.

Hardcover Score Card - Bindery 59
38 books at Bindery 59 to be bound.
0 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery

8/13

Spent the entire day working a one-book project. This is a very complex Miracleman project which will probably be the fanciest project we have ever done.

8/12

Worked on final book prep for Bindery 59 and Captiol Bindery projects. Made last minute customer changes to various layout sheets. then it was back to working on covers for various Snow Dog books.

8/11

Spent the day building 10 covers (having fun)!

8/10

Not a very productive day on the creative side. We had the roof replaced on our house and while they did a great job, the noise played havok with my concentration. I gave up on the creative work and worked on project details like layout sheets, etc.

1 book arrived to be made into a Capitol Bindery art on cover hardcover volume.

3 books arrive to be made into Snow Dog hardcover volumes.

8/9

Well we are committed to the Mid-Ohio Con. I sent my registration info in today.

Then I worked on cleaning up scans and doing pre-builds for 10 different covers I am working on. Going to be fun week!

Box of comics arrived today from the UK to make into 4 Capitol Bindery hardcover volumes.

8/8

Ran the scanner for several hours today while I work on answering the backlog of emails.

8/7

Had breakfast with Kevin, Mike, Yan and my oldest son Paul joined us. We talked about a variety of projects and what each bindery wants featured at the Mid-Ohio Con. Yan showed us some books he bound in the 80s when he was just a teenager. Amazing stuff!

Picked up 5 finished books from Kevin. Mike said he would have some for me later in the week.

Hardcover Score Card - Capitol
11 books at Capitol to be bound.
12 books at my house waiting to go to the bindery.
2 books are on hold

Hardcover Score Card - Snow Dog
10 books at Snow Dog to be bound.
1 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery

Soft Cover Score Card - Snow Dog
14 books at Snow Dog to be bound.
6 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery.

Hardcover Score Card - Bindery 59
17 books at Bindery 59 to be bound.
21 book at my house waiting to go to the bindery

8/6

Spent the whole day on book prep. Not sure if I will be taking any of these down to the binderies on Saturday but I like to have things ready when they have openings.

8/5

Worked on organizing orders, doing some scanning, creating layout sheets, pulling staples, removing pages and answering emails.

7 books arrived to be made into Bindery 59 hardcover volumes.

8/4

Pulled staples, removed pages and answered emails all day.

3 books arrived to be made into Bindery 59 hardcover volumes.

1 book arrived to be made into a Capitol Bindery hardcover volume.

8/3

One of the projects we do on a regular basis is Miracleman. It all started with James several years ago having us bind his issues into a single volume. Travis followed his idea and end up selling his copy for in excess of 2K. Matt followed suit and sold a copy for nearly 1K. Since then we always seem to have a Miracleman project in the shop. Currently we have three at Capitol Bindery being worked on. I also have one that I am still prepping to take to the bindery. I guess my point is that instead of being bored by this, I am actually excited because each new Miracleman project seems to want to out do the previous one. And I get to see the results first! Life is good!

2 books arrived to be made into Capitol Bindery "art-on-cover" hardcover volumes.

8/2

Worked on unpacking books and processing orders. It is interesting how the post office has taken notice of how many boxes I am receiving and how many I am shipping out. Especially on the days where I have some many boxes they load them into a cart for me. Each time I explain the the situtation to a new postal worker they cut me off half into the story by saying "oh you're the book guy, I've heard about you."

11 books arrived to be made into Bindery 59 hardcover volumes.

6 books arrived to be made into Capitol Bindery hardcover volumes.

8/1

Took the day off to think about the logistics of prepping for the Mid-Ohio Con. Kevin, Mike and I talked about it at length and we came to the consenus that I should exhibit for the three binderies (Capitol, Bindery 59 and Snow Dog). More details to come.

Because I represent three different book binderies you can have your books bound five different ways.

1. Capitol Bindery “art on cover” (high-end) hardcover starts at $65.00

2. Capitol Bindery stamped (high-end) hardcover: Basic sewn book starts at $50.00

3. Bindery 59 stamped (no frills) hardcover: Basic sewn book starts at $25.00

4. Snow Dog Image glue bound hardcover: $39.95

5. Snow Dog Image glue bound soft cover: $19.95

Dust jackets are $30.00

Once you have decided which kind of book you would like made I can email you ordering information.