Leafcasting Comic Books

[Shadow Images]

Wow ! amazing work

[Red84]

[vaillant]

Wow Kenny, that is wonderful as usual…

 

That Cap (cover only) would be probably the most I could afford…

[gadzukes]

And the Winner of the 2015 Comic Alchemist award goes to..... Kenny!!!!

 

Are you going to CT it too? Or just the leafcast.

[gadzukes]

Kenny must have made some kind of deal with the Devil to get these skills.

[Finhead]

That is just magic. Would love to be a fly on the wall and watch that all happen, just amazing.

[slym2none]

That is just magic. Would love to be a fly on the wall and watch that all happen, just amazing.

 

Agreed!

 

 

 

 

-slym

[divad]

Amazing work Kenny, simply amazing.

[Ze-man]

Kenny must have made some kind of deal with the Devil to get these skills.

 

Didn't you hear? I trained under Matt years ago..and everybody knows he is the devil!!!

 

 

 

[slym2none]

So, with leaf-casting, you aren't adding pre-existing paper, you are essentially making new paper, correct?

 

This truly is an art-form, and you are quite capable at it!

 

 

 

-slym

[Ze-man]

Correct, you literally blend up paper in a blender...creating a paper pulp milkshake. That pulp is then used to fill in missing areas of the item being casted.

 

You can either spot leaf cast specific areas, or fully submerge the cover and cast the entire thing. Depending on what is required.

[Finhead]

Correct, you literally blend up paper in a blender...creating a paper pulp milkshake. That pulp is then used to fill in missing areas of the item being casted.

 

You can either spot leaf cast specific areas, or fully submerge the cover and cast the entire thing. Depending on what is required.

 

SO is this the basics of the process for the repair. I'm sure there's far more to it but along these lines?

 

[Ze-man]

It's basically the same process, except for how he lines the entire page with japan paper for added strength. This would work great on fragile, brittle comics...but it would also look terrible!!

[Ze-man]

A 3 ring binder hole punched Hulk 1 interior with infilled holes through leaf casting.

 

Doing this through hand applied donor paper would have resulted in this interior getting really puffy once re assembled. But leaf casting allows for such a thin amount of paper to be added it is almost seamless in hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[zzutak]

Nice work, Kenny. (thumbs u Those holes and that paper sure look familiar ......

 

[AnkurJ]

Obviously its not cost effective to fill in the art right?

[Ze-man]

Obviously its not cost effective to fill in the art right?

 

Exactly, it's simply too many holes.

 

[Ze-man]

Nice work, Kenny. (thumbs u Those holes and that paper sure look familiar ......

 

 

At the time, they meant well...right?

 

The colors on that #3 are stunning.

[zzutak]

At the time, they meant well...right?

Yep. Archival storage via binders.

[Ze-man]

A good example of somebody who wanted to enjoy a cover again.

 

No CT, just casting.

 

Sorry for crummy iphone photos.