I like comic books and I mostly read them in trade paperback form since I started reading comics about a year ago and decided that 2011 was my starting point. I sometimes get single issues of some new comics or some fancy ones that I like to collect but they all lack the square bound spine look on my book shelf. So I designed a Spine/Sleeve for my floppy issues so they can live and be displayed on my bookshelf where I don't have to go out and buy the comics in another format.

As you may have noticed, I did not add any STLs, since a blank spine is not all that great and I hope for you to customize the spine yourself to fit your needs. As you can see I got the look and the feel of Catwoman Lonely City on the spine so it can be just one good looking spine on my shelf instead of 4.

Fusion 360 is free for personal uses, and the license lasts a year. You can re-up again when it expires. It might take poking around on their website. It has been different each time I re-up.

If you download the file you will find that the user-parameters list is well used and most of it is even commented. The important values would be BookHeight, BookWidth, BookThickness and numofbooks. I Put in some standard sizes like Black Label and regular commic book size so you don't really have to mess with measuring the height and width. What you will have to measure is the thickness. I suggest measuring at the spine and be loose with it. You will want to air on the larger side than smaller side.

I find just the spine works great if you bag and board your comics. In the photos, you can see that I have some lenticulars in a spine. That holds 6 total and its pretty stable, like you can pull it out without a problem. For everything else I would go with a sleeve. It acts like a dvd sleeve, where you put them in backwards and then when you pull it back out you can see the spine on the open end.

The spine text is in a sketch in the f360 file, it should be fairly simple to edit. I even gave you the option to put a number on the bottom like a TP would have.

Since I have a large bed(300x300) I can print a standard sized spine in one go, and for the sleeve, the side panels are all intact. If you don't have that bed or you are going with a magazine format, you will have to use the one that cuts everything in half. Then it is glueing it up and painting it so it looks good on your bookshelf.