I have a collection of my own cartoons, nothing professional, just fun stuff.
I chose about thirty of my favorites and would like to put it in a book form.
The size of the sheets go from legal size to half a page.

Can you suggest where I can get advice as to how to put it into a book
Form. I don't want to spend tons of $$$. I'm nowhere near professional.
Just a senior who wants to give it as a gift to some of my family and
Close friends.

What my family did with stories we'd written about my deceased father plus drawings the grandkids made was make enough copies (color copies of the drawings) of each page, created a front and back cover, put all the pages in order for each book, and then went to a copy place that bound them with plastic spiral binding. Now each family member has his/her own book to treasure.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

What my family did with stories we'd written about my deceased father plus drawings the grandkids made was make enough copies (color copies of the drawings) of each page, created a front and back cover, put all the pages in order for each book, and then went to a copy place that bound them with plastic spiral binding. Now each family member has his/her own book to treasure.

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Thank you for your response. I did something similar with
Photos, old family recipes, lots of stories, a few secrets and information from
Ancestry and put it together for six households. I was looking for something
A little more professional looking. I thought maybe Staples has some suggestions
As well. But if all else comes to naught, I will do pretty much what you did.

My first attempt was without my cartoons. This will be all cartoons.
Thank you again...

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Originally Posted by jammy23

Thank you for your response. I did something similar with
Photos, old family recipes, lots of stories, a few secrets and information from
Ancestry and put it together for six households. I was looking for something
A little more professional looking. I thought maybe Staples has some suggestions
As well. But if all else comes to naught, I will do pretty much what you did.

My first attempt was without my cartoons. This will be all cartoons.
Thank you again...

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Check with your public library. We (at the library where I worked) sent our damaged books to a local bindery. Sometimes patrons would add one of their own books for repair. The bindery your library uses may be able to do a perfect binding or some other method better than plastic spiral and at a low cost. Ask your library for contact info for the bindery or for area binderies. And ask about cost, of course.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Check with your public library. We (at the library where I worked) sent our damaged books to a local bindery. Sometimes patrons would add one of their own books for repair. The bindery your library uses may be able to do a perfect binding or some other method better than plastic spiral and at a low cost. Ask your library for contact info for the bindery or for area binderies. And ask about cost, of course.

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Thank you for your suggestions. My partner is a retired librarian also and until you wrote about the bindery she
Looked it up... said she forgot about that possibility. Read your profile and we
Too are OWNED by our cats LOL! Thank you for getting back to me.

What was a few cartoons/sketches is now 120!!