How to book bind a manga

How to bind your own comic book using staples.

Take your text block firmly in your hand like a book and flip through the pages. Look at the middle where the left & right pages meet. Notice how art or word balloons occasionally get swallowed up in that crease? Gutter loss. It happens in every book, and gets more pronounced the bigger the text block. As you can imagine, gutter loss can have a minimal or severe impact on your bind’s readability.

You can see how the oversewing turned out on the closeup image. The books lay flat and while the ‘live’ area goes right up to the edge of the book gutter, nothing is actually lost thanks to Sakai’s use of panel/gutter space. You can also see how those blue & white headbands sync up well with the cover colors. Some binders see headbands as an extraneous thing, but to me, not having them there would be totally distracting, to say nothing of how they can really tie a bind together like the best of rugs.

Step by Step Guide on How to Draw Manga & Anime (Bind-up”6 Books in 1″)

How To Bind A Book (from Selvedge)