How to make DD Size Manga

Inspired from the how to guide to make a DD Compilation Book. I decided to make a DD size manga my way

 

First I made a template in inkscape for importing manga pages and covers, then printed it out on both sides of the pages.

Here's the One Piece pages, print at the center and you should be fine. Print pages 1, 3, 5. Then feed the pages back and print pages 2, 4, 6

http://www.mediafire.com/?c4e72b0olb7cqj7

 

Here's the printout ready to be cut. I already cut the cover.

Pages were printed on normal paper and the cover was printed on matt high grade paper

IMGP6446 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

Boring task of cutting

IMGP6451 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

IMGP6454 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

Stack of pages in order

IMGP6455 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

Pasting a 2mm line of glue using scraps of paper as a guide

IMGP6457 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

Placing the page to stick

IMGP6459 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

Firmly pressing the pages together

IMGP6460 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

Repeat until all pages are glued together. Clamp them and wait til dry. I did it this way as it made the spine stronger.

IMGP6461 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

Paste a dollop of glue on the spine.

IMGP6463 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

And stick it to the plain cover.

IMGP6464 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

Fold the paper and clamp. Wait for it to dry.

IMGP6465 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

And place the cover sleeve on.

IMGP6481 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

Ready to read

IMGP6477 by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

 

Catching up on reading One Piece by XOHimitsuOX, on Flickr

Edited April 13, 2012 by Guest

Awesome thanks for the tutorial. I'll have to give it a try

Awesome

I think the hardest part is to make the two-sided print right, to make sure You have correct pages on both sides

 

I'll repeat here what I said in photo-randoms about gluing the pages on spine only,

because gluing all pages separately is a very long and laborious task.

I glued the spine only in full-size books and it worked, so here it should too.

But You have to use a good glue and the spine should be dented across to give better grip for the glue.

--v---v---v---v-- - something like this. You can make it using knife or even a small saw.

I had a special book-binding glue at that time but I don't know, what kind may be available in Your country.

The glue after setting was transparent and remained elastic.

The final product looks great! Thank-you for the tutorial

@Jezrah: No problem.

@kumi: Thanks, it's not really hard, just tedious doing the double sided pages. Odd pages go left to right, top to bottom, and even pages go right to let, top to bottom.

@aaircrash: Thanks

Wow, that's amazing! I would love to make these for my girls, but I lack the patience. Maybe I should just try it. Did you download the pages or something?

@PrettyCranium: Yeap download raw manga and imported it to my inkscape template. I've uploaded the One Piece pages if want to try it out.

This is really fascinating! It looks like a great prop~

WOW that's fantastic! Thank you for sharing it!!!

Thanks for the tutorial, this is really neat... I think I will give it a try some time soon!

Wow this is awesome! Your tutorial is really professionally done! It's easy to follow and your step by step is clear. ^_^ I don't know if I'd have the skill to do the double sided print the way you did.. And I don't know if I'd have the patience to glue it but what a nice product when finished!

 

Maybe I'll have to un-lazy and try this at some point.

I am totally going to have to get my printer working and try this out!!!

I think if I read as much manga as I do my girls should try to do it with me.

 

Awesome *highfive*

It is a real manga~~~

Interesting

I think I'll be trying that, but the hardest part is at the first part, where you have to print the manga pages. Is it okay if the manga is not One-piece?

Is it okay if the manga is not One-piece?

 

No, it's not. Under any cirbleepstances You shouldn't use other title.

It will result in warping the space, global warming and curdling the dairy (oh the horror )

 

 

this is really creative, I like it!

oh wow what a fantastic project. I'll need to try this at some point Evangelion manga would be a must for my girls. Thanks for putting this up.

I might as well try to make a vampire knight manga for my future DD

Is it okay if the manga is not One-piece?

 

No, it's not. Under any cirbleepstances You shouldn't use other title.

It will result in warping the space, global warming and curdling the dairy (oh the horror )

 

 

 

Lol, Kumi! I'd like to try this with Naruto but I don't know how it would turn out.

That's so cool and your girl looks like she is injoying herself

hi, how do i use the template? isit the op6.png?

i have no idea how to remove the one piece page and put my own page...

Here's the templates (no instructions), use inkscape to open them.

http://www.mediafire.com/?e6cb3kxbicwb2y5

http://www.mediafire.com/?gc88lboncs5bxq8

thank you^^

thanks for sharing your work, i will definitely try this

ooo! I'll have to try this. Maybe I'll have a full library when my girl comes home for her!