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@fakemagicjaye
To continue his work in high society after the fall of the kingdom, the mage Heim joins an aristocrat and what's left of her house in fleeing the country. Heim soon becomes captivated by the lady's knight, who often needs the mage to piece him back together.
My knight x healer eroguro romance has returned to the internet~☆ It's up on my itch.io page now. Yay~
Backstory
The other comic I print & bind myself (Alien) is standard zine format; four pages on letter sized paper, staple in the middle, fold in half. The spreads are 10x7.5 inches with a 0.25 inch bleed so there's a safe margin from the edge of the paper and I don't need to worry about testing my printer's limits...
In August 2025 I had just finished drawing Exo for SBCF and had been wanting to apply to this Noah's Ark anthology but at this point I had like, two weeks left. :o) The page template was A5 (5.8 x 8.3 in), so that's what size I drew Real Horror at (well, bigger but same resolution. you know how it is).
Shrinking it down to fit my Alien method.... I could not bear to do it u__u;;; But if I could somehow bind it without having to fold the pages, I could make it as big as I wanted....
Feature Presentation
The finished size is 6.47 x 9 in. I think I chose it based on measuring some books I have, like those tall manga volumes (Ran and the Grey World or Gangsta). So 9" by however wide it needed to be.
Then I looked up a bunch of bookbinding tutorials on youtube to see if my dreams could come true.
This is the one! If you actually want to do this, watch this here video!!
So I made a prototype at work and it was functional. ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و
The plan was to staple it along the inside bleed line and use that space to glue it to the cover. As per the tutorial, there's a short piece of paper (the size of the bleed area) to cover the staples.
Since it worked, I got a bunch of the cover printed.
I told the print shop what I needed it for so they suggested I get it scored down the middle. I should have gotten it scored just inside the bleed so that it opens nicely, but I had to do that part myself. =w=;; Since I'm cropping it myself later, I just go the press sheets with no trimming from them.
Then several months went by! ;w;;;; (I didn't finish drawing in time for a con in February... but I have another one coming up this weekend (it's June now.......))
The pages are all printed on legal (8.5x14 in) paper because I got a bunch from the thrift store :v Then I put each book together with paperclips and staple them along the inner bleed around 2" from the top and bottom.
Even though it's so close to the edge, this ruler thing on my long arm stapler makes it easy to keep it at the right distance. (Casually bringing up that I have a long arm stapler..... /bragging)
And then!! Here we have; A. Cover, folded and pressed down the middle. B. Inside pages. Stapled and trimmed right up to the bleed on the inside. I had to cut some off the top since my paper cutter can only fit 12" =w=;; C. Masking tape. I used it to cover the staples instead of making a seam cover... Since the staples stick out a lot more than thread would having a heavier paper would be good if you want to really cover them but ¯_(ツ)_/¯ D. Bone folder my beloved. Good for folding. Good for scoring. E. Rice glue. Allegedly PVA glue (normal white glue) is best for bookbinding but rice glue won't crack if you bend it... it comes in a cute tube..... what more could you want? F. Paintbrushes for glue application.
If you think this side of my craft table looks messy.... you should (not) see the other side u__u;;;;
Since the cover and inner pages are totally different sizes right now I don't know how I would have done this if it hadn't been daytime.... orz;;; But I could see the printing through the cover and lined it up with the edge of the inner page. ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧ success~
Then it was just a matter of gluing along the bleed area and across the "spine". I did it on one side, flipped the book over, and did the back.
The pages were flattened with a little help from my friends(' books that I borrowed but haven't gotten around to reading yet :'D ) idk how long it takes for rice glue to dry so I just left them there for a while.... The internet said "pretty quickly" but mostly gave me recipes for making rice glue myself.
After waiting a pretty quick amount of time, I scored the pages along the staples. ...realizing neither of my rulers are visible in that supplies picture... orz I have a 6" one and a 24" metal ruler. I didn't bother marking the pages, just put the long ruler along the back of the book just past the staples and scored them with the tip of the bone folder. Then I put the short ruler along the fold line and pressed back against it with my hand from inside the book. I didn't want to fold them all the way back like the prototype, but try to avoid pulling on the glued area when they're opened ദ്ദി(ᵕ—ᴗ—) hopefully...
Last! Cutting! This paper cutter I also got from the thrift store... It was only $8 and I truly felt like someone was going to stop me when I bought it dfghj
The bleed is 0.125", which is pretty normal if you're sending your book off to a print shop where they have machines to do this. Given the completely random size I ended up going with, I'm lucky to have that much...
Anyway, I measured how far from the cut line ⅛" was with a ruler and from there I just eyeballed it orz;; They all turned out basically the same size so I guess that worked~
done! (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)
also it says 19+ bc that's the legal drinking etc age here and even tho i'm pretty sure it's been 18+ for selling mature content at cons i've been to i was like IS IT REALLY and i went to the government website to verify but it was as inscrutable as a government websites can be so i put 19+ just to be safe but now i'm like...... that's stupid........ AND! i rasterized the text files so it's going to say that on the digital version too but i DON'T CARE (<- guy who cares)
well that's all thank you for coming to my TED talk. =w=;;; if you want to do this... just follow that youtube tutorial.... and make a seam cover especially if you use staples instead of thread.... unless you (like me) don't want to :v
it's real!! it looks like a real book!! ( ;▽; )
i might make a bookbinding process post later... but i didn't take that many pictures and it is my first time doing this so i'm still hoping the cover doesn't fall off orz it's like, fake perfect bound more or less using this tutorial
i never did much promo online for my Alien comic so here is some of that~
it's about a guy who gets abducted by an alien while walking his cat. it's also stupid and really funny (according to me, the guy who drew it B^) )
>> read it!! <<
also i figured out how to make the prices on itchio into CAD so they're all cheaper... except for Exo since I accounted for the exchange rate in the first place
see, the critics are raving (n˘v˘•)¬
i am passing away.
my printer only does one side at a time so i get super stressed about putting the pages in wrong, and sometimes it grabs two pages at once and prints on the wrong one... basically printing is an Ordeal. i keep being like "it can't cost that much to just get them printed- oh yeah there's dicks in Real Horror"
but even Alien -- the easy one that i've done before -- is SO STRESSFUL. and i've resigned myself to getting the covers printed at Staples which costs money.
in fact. i have just learned. getting the covers printed costs about as much AS GETTING MIXAM TO DO THE WHOLE BOOK. I'M SCREAMING. DYING. WALKING INTO THE OCEAN NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN.
currently printing more copies of Alien, which i am always nervous about... but in this case, will i have enough toner for Real Horror…?
…Real Horror being thiiisss (the body horror yaoi i have been working on for. too long.) it was supposed to be a stupid thing i drew really fast and now i'm like. it looks too good….. like you're supposed to take it seriously…… i'm sorry it's so stupid…. orz;;;
it's called Survival Horror For My Real Friends Real Horror For My Surviving Friends so even the title is embarrassing =w=;;;;;; (i think it's funny but i'm worried it looks like i think it's cool…………)
ANYWAY. anyway. it's done. i might even print it out. or put it on itchio……. ◑.◑;;;
i never did much promo online for my Alien comic so here is some of that~
it's about a guy who gets abducted by an alien while walking his cat. it's also stupid and really funny (according to me, the guy who drew it B^) )
>> read it!! <<
also i figured out how to make the prices on itchio into CAD so they're all cheaper... except for Exo since I accounted for the exchange rate in the first place
yooooo B^) Exo has entered the physical realm now.
cover for my body horror bl comic is donee~ :3c
oh yeah should i fucking post this thing........? ;-;;;; i'm feeling kinda eeugh about it, ig because i wrote it as a quick silly thing and then put wayyy too much effort into drawing it so it kinda.... is dumb as hell but looks like it's supposed to be taken seriously????
i do love to do a poll...
dude just post it. i will pay money to read this.
i do want to read it but know you personally so i want it for free please
don't do it bro
turns out i never finished the sketches for lvl46…. ;w;;;; so i have been working on those……
done chapter three \o/ (that's the last one~) by the end of the week… finally…. Exo will be up on itch.io and i will also send it to print :'D at last
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finally making some progress on this~ greys are done for the prologue of Exo! \o/
i didn't make it........... ; 3;;;; i'll finish it anyway but...... uuughhhhhhhh
more of that~
(and some more under the cut.... ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ✩‧₊ 🔞)
cover for my body horror bl comic is donee~ :3c