#ikimaru

GUYS. GUYS. GUYS. AAAAAAAAAAAAA 💕💕💕💕💕💕

IKIMARU PACKAGE ARRIVED

YAYAYAAYAYAY!!!

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When an artist you’ve adored for years draws your darlings!! 😭

Keith: Lance where did your freckles go?

Lance: oh they fade when it's winter

Keith: oh okay...

*later*

These photos are terrible, between my poor camera, the format of the book (it's really hard to photograph) and the fact that I needed to work with the snow to take daylight shots of it, BUT. Here's a second post for Binderary!

I've fallen in love with @ikimaru's Klance comics, and I'm growing more and more fond of the format of A4 pages, folded vertically. Remember my two lyrics collections? I have definitely been looking for more excuses to use this type of typeset, and Sunny's comics fit the format perfectly.

It makes for a book somewhat awkward to hold in hand at first, and absolutely AWFUL to fit on a small shelf, but I thankfully have bigger ones.

But it's so nice.

The endpages are the same Lion pattern (found in the †Amino community) that I already used in my Call Me Beep Me prototype. I just recoloured it so it would be only red, blue and black lions. Honestly, I feel like half of my Klance binds are going to have this type of endpages. I love this pattern so much!

The bind itself is nothing exceptional; cased book cover, using a leftover of the dream bookcloth from the same prototype, because I have a strong NO WASTE policy in my workshop. The cover itself is black paper, printed on with a laser printer, then foiled using a laminating machine and rainbox foil.

Tragically, it ended up becoming a learning experience, since the foil slipped and now some lions are red, others are red too, and space is blue.

Lesson learnt: tape your foil before laminating. Noted.

And since I had already started printing in colours, I thought I might as well do another comic from Ikimaru, "Sleepover", which has not had a physical release. It's a super simple one this time, a softcover otabind.

The book served as a fantastic stress-test of my printer, with its black pages. Happy to say the printer did fantastic :)

Otabinds are really easy and quick to make, hard to fail (except in case of guillotine accidents, which... I am sadly no stranger to), and they allow for a nice hidden secret of spine decoration. I made mine galaxy-Klance-coloured.

Both binds were made to celebrate surviving 2025 and sucessfully entering 2026 with a new fandom under my belt, and I am DEFINITELY making more books with this format of A4 folded vertically in the future.