{"id":1130,"date":"2008-09-24T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2008-09-24T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T14:19:03","slug":"building-a-cheap-frame-for-original-comics-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Building a Cheap “Frame” for Original Comics Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve occasionally been asked to display some of my artwork in gallery shows or similar situations and this always poses some problems for comics art.\u00a0 A page of original art can’t just be hung on the wall like a painting; it requires some sort of frame.\u00a0 The problem, though, is that getting art framed can be really expensive and unless you sell the piece, you’ll be stuck with a framed piece of your own art–and unless you’re more of an egotist than I, that’s a pretty useless thing to have lying around.\u00a0 Add to that the near-certainty that if you need to display your artwork again in a similar setting it’ll be a different<\/em> page, and getting an original page framed professionally for display seems to be an even sillier prospect.<\/p>\n

So, I decided that what I’d do is try to build a cheap, but hopefully decent-looking, “frame” (I use the term loosely) that would be reusable for different pieces of art.\u00a0 Its construction was, in the words of Doctor Finklestein, exceedingly simple.<\/p>\n

Here’s all you’ll need:<\/p>\n