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3/10

Surprise! My friend at Krypton Comics presented me with an unexpected gift of an art commission!

Now I can't get anything done cuz I am staring at it and trying to figure out where it is going to go in my office!!

3/9

Designin, scanning and a little paperwork. A perfect day!

3/8

Shipped 4 boxes of finished books.  Picked up 2 dust jackets from Tilford and dropped one dust jacket for them to work on. Met with Todd at Snow Dog to drop off 3 hardcover books, 2 soft cover books, 2 Capitol dust jackets for lamination and 4 Capitol front and back covers for lamination.

Started building designs for an Antman book and a Flash book. Continued to scan elements for 23 Snow Dog book projects.

3/7

Up early for a long, long day. Answered emails, did pricing requests, prepped 3 hardcover and 2 soft cover projects going to Snow Dog on Monday, and prepped a dust jacket going to Tilford on Monday. After lunch, I organized new Capitol Bindery projects to begin working on layout sheets, began scanning elements for two Capitol projects and 23 Snow Dog projects.

3/6

Up early to tweak a cover design. This is part of a group of books going to Snow Dog Bindery on Monday.

Met with Kevin and Scott at Capitol Bindery. Picked up 9 finished books. Discussed details on the six books in the shop and the 17 books at my house.

Here is a three volume project where the customer just wanted art on the front covers, rather than front and back. Strangely enough Kevin informed me that just putting art on the cover is harder to do than putting it on both front and back. I am not sure I understand why.

Another Miracleman book! I need to double check measurements and then send the customer-designed dust jacket out for printing and lamination.

Two more Cerebus volumes. Four more volumes to go and we will have completed a 12 volume set for this customer.

Here are three books bound by another bindery but sent to us for new covers. This included new endsheets, rerounding the spine, hand sanding all edges to remove glue splatter (from the original binding), and new head/foot bands.

With the volume of books increasing for all three binderies I will be now making 2-3 trips a week (instead of just my usual Saturday run) to keep things moving.

Hardcover Score Card - Capitol
4 books at Capitol to be bound.
2 books at Capitol but the project has been cancelled. Books will be retrieved and shipped back to customer.
17 books at my house waiting to go to the bindery.

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

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

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

3/5

Up early to answer emails and to tweak another cover design.

A large box arrrived from London. It contained comics for 9 books (7 Capitol Bindery, 2 Snow Dog Bindery).

3/4

Up early to continue production on several designs.

Mid-morning I met with the designer of the Single Bound Studios site to discuss changes.

There are now only six weeks to go before I leave my day job to work at comic book bookbinding full time.

Besides facilitating the ever increasing volumes of books now flowing through the three binderies, I need to work on major changes to the Single Bound Studios web site to include detailed information on each bindery. Having the information just in the blog is not working. 

After much thought, I am finalizing 20-30 auction listings featuring comic-bookbinding sample packs. This means each auction will feature a Capitol Bindery book, a Snow Dog Bindery book and Bindery 59 book. Each auction will start out at $9.95 with FREE shipping. I can’t think of an easier way for a potential customer to compare the full menu of what Single Bound Studios has to offer.

I am also plotting out my travel plans for the rest of 2010. I will be attending shows within a day’s drive of Omaha. Send me some suggestions of what I should attend.

3/3

Worked on designs for two Snow Dog soft cover volumes and two Snow Dog hardcover volumes.  Interesting group of books, I wasn’t aware of three out the four titles.

3/2

Couple of dust jacket ideas.

To go with these books.

3/1

Just back from NYC. Today I am working on a backlog of emails and finalizing designs for several projects.

One book arrived to be made into a Capitol Bindery hardcover volume. Two books arrived to be made into Snow Dog soft cover volumes and three arrived to be made into Snow Dog hardcover volumes.

Hardcover Score Card - Capitol
14 books at Capitol to be bound.
10 books at my house waiting to go to the bindery.(and 9 books have been put into storage for a customer who seems to have disappeared.)

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

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

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

What follows is domestic and international ordering information for Capitol Bindery and Snow Dog Bindery books:

Standard Ordering information (hardcover)-United States

Reservations are required. Email me at dpbanks@gmail.com for availability of production slots. Price: $50.00 (for three lines of type and up to 25 issues in one hardcover volume). Shipping: Return Shipping is FREE. Two book minimum per order or twenty book maximum per order. Payment expected with order. Accepted forms of payment: PayPal, Personal Check or Money Order. Make payment and ship books to: David Banks P.O. Box 45394 Omaha, NE 68145. Books produced by Capitol Bindery.

Standard Ordering information (softcover)-United States

Reservations are required. Email me at dpbanks@gmail.com for availability of production slots. Price: $19.95 (for 6 to 18 issues in one soft cover volume). Shipping: Fast $9.85 (as many books as fit in the flat rate box) / Slow $5.50 (2-3 books). Two book minimum per order or ten book maximum per order. Payment expected with order. Accepted forms of payment: Personal Check or Money Order. No PayPal. Make payment and ship books to:David Banks P.O. Box 45394 Omaha, NE 68145. If you are producing your own cover, the cover file should be sent on Disk as uncompressed Photoshop PSD file. Free assistance for cover design and production (Although tips to the paypal virtual tip jar are appreciated. Paypal id: dpbanks@earthlink.net) Books produced by Snow Dog Printing/Binding.

Standard Ordering information (glue-bound image-wrap hardcover)-United States

Reservations are required. Email me at dpbanks@gmail.com for availability of production slots. Price: $39.95 (for 6 to 18 issues in one hardcover volume). Shipping: Fast $9.85 (as many books as fit in the flat rate box 3-4) / Slow $5.50 (2-3 books). Two book minimum per order or ten book maximum per order. Payment expected with order. Accepted forms of payment: Personal Check or Money Order. No PayPal. Make payment and ship books to: David Banks P.O. Box 45394 Omaha, NE 68145. If you are producing your own cover, the cover file should be sent on Disk as an uncompressed Photoshop PSD file. Free assistance for cover design and production (Although tips to the paypal virtual tip jar are appreciated. Paypal id: dpbanks@earthlink.net). Books produced by Snow Dog Printing/Binding.

For International Orders some of the details are different for the number of books that can be ordered at one time and the shipping details.

Standard Ordering information (hardcover)-International

Reservations are required. Email me at dpbanks@gmail.com for availability of production slots. Price: $50.00 (for three lines of type and up to 25 issues in one hardcover volume). Shipping: International Shipping charges to be determined on a case by case basis. Two book minimum/maximum per order. Payment expected with order. Accepted forms of payment: PayPal (paypal id: dpbanks@earthlink.net). Make payment and ship books to: David Banks P.O. Box 45394 Omaha, NE 68145. Books produced by Capitol Bindery.

Standard Ordering information (soft cover)-International

Reservations are required. Email me at dpbanks@gmail.com for availability of production slots. Price: $19.95 (for 6 to 18 issues in one soft cover volume). Shipping: International Shipping charges to be determined on a case by case basis. Two book minimum/maximum per order. Payment expected with order. Accepted forms of payment: PayPal (paypal id: dpbanks@earthlink.net). Make payment and ship books to: David Banks P.O. Box 45394 Omaha, NE 68145. If you are producing your own cover, the cover file should be sent on Disk as an uncompressed Photoshop PSD file. Free assistance for cover design and production (Although tips to the paypal virtual tip jar are appreciated. Paypal id: dpbanks@earthlink.net). Books produced by Snow Dog Printing/Binding.

Standard Ordering information (glue-bound image-wrap hardcover)-International

Reservations are required. Email me at dpbanks@gmail.com for availability of production slots. Price: $39.95 (for 6 to 18 issues in one hardcover cover volume). Shipping: International Shipping charges to be determined on a case by case basis. Two book minimum/maximum per order. Payment expected with order. Accepted forms of payment: PayPal (paypal id: dpbanks@earthlink.net). Make payment and ship books to: David Banks P.O. Box 45394 Omaha, NE 68145. If you are producing your own cover, the cover file should be sent on Disk as an uncompressed Photoshop PSD file. Free assistance for cover design and production (Although tips to the paypal virtual tip jar are appreciated. Paypal id: dpbanks@earthlink.net). Books produced by Snow Dog Printing/Binding.

I was interviewed for a podcast about comic book bookbinding.