For this binding, I was picturing a bright red book cloth since that is Spider-Man's primary color. I also had an idea of drawing a picture of the Black Cat and Spider-Man on the cover. I decided to do a full cloth cover with a picture inset. For this I needed two pieces of book board and once piece of chipboard, which is a slightly thinner piece of board. (I actually just used a piece of cardboard that came with my comic book order, which is thicker than the book board but a much lighter material.)
First I determined the size of the picture I was planning to draw for the cover. I cut that out on the "chipboard."
Then I glued the chipboard, spine board, and back book board onto the red book cloth.
Then I removed the cloth in the square where the picture will eventually go.
The next step is to take the scraps from the previous step and glue them onto the remaining book board. I traced the square from the chipboard onto the book board so I would know where to glue the scraps.
Then I glued the last book board onto the chipboard.
And turned in the edges of the book cloth.
Close up the book and you can see where I'm going to put the picture.
Next Time: The Black Cat!
