HYPERCASTLE

2010/02/05

Draw Thyme X Sketch Klubb

Filed under: Drawz, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini — Tags: Austin, Callisto, dragon, Final Fantasy I, Ganymede, Glade, Jupiter, NASA, Obama, Sketch Klubb, sketch klubb x draw thyme — Mark P Hensel @ 02:42

Last nite was Draw Thyme X Sketch Klubb, one of my favorite activities. I get together with a bunch of kewl ppl and we just hang out and draw all nite. I think that just spending time drawing whatever I want in my sketchbook is very important to my artistic practice. I would show y’all my sketches from last nite, but they weren’t very good, so I scanned some pages from the nite before last, when I was drawing at the laundromat.

When I was sketching on this page I was thinking about Obama’s recent budget change for NASA, so I was drawing spaceships and arcologies on Ganymede (or Callisto? I can never remember which moon is farthest from Jupiter).

On this second page I was drawing cartoon Glade, a dragon, and a character based off of the black mage from Final Fantasy I.

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2010/02/02

Titanic Clash of the Shamen Page 3

Filed under: 2010 Resolution, Comix, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini — Tags: Collaboration, Comics, Josh Burggraf, STAPLE!, The Gold County Paper Mill, Titanic Clash of the Shamen, William Cardini — Mark P Hensel @ 07:54

Last week I finished the third page of Titanic Clash of the Shamen, a collaborative comic that I’m doing with Josh Burggraf.

Here’s are two panels from the page:

We came up with a plot starring our respective Shamen, decided what would occur on each page, and now we’re drawing alternate pages. I’ve never collaborated this way before, it’s pretty fun. I’m hoping that we’ll have it done in time for STAPLE! where I’ll be tabling as part of the Gold County Paper Mill. I think that Josh and I will finish the comic in time, we’re a third of the way there and we have a month to go.

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2010/01/29

FISTS Page 2

Filed under: 2010 Resolution, Comix, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini — Tags: 2010 Resolution, Comics, Fists, Fists: Free For All, Smear Campaign, William Cardini — Mark P Hensel @ 07:52

Last week I drew two comics pages. I tried to get three done but I ended up only having the stamina to pencil the third page.

Here’s the second page of the FISTS comic that I drew last week (you can see the first page here):

This comic and some other, older FISTS strips (from college!) will be published in issue #14 of the humor zine Smear Campaign.

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2010/01/26

FISTS Page 1

Filed under: 2010 Resolution, Comix, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini — Tags: 2010 Resolution, ATTACKS, Austin, Comics, Daily Texan, Fists, Fists: Free For All, Natalia Ciolko, Smear Campaign, University of Texas at Austin, William Cardini — Mark P Hensel @ 23:51

Back when I was in college I drew a comic for the Daily Texan (UT-Austin’s paper) called Fists: Free For All. My original premise, inspired by Krazy Kat and not too different from my current ATTACKS series now that I think about it, was to have each strip end with (or revolve around) one character hurling a gloved fist on a stick at another. Although I quickly abandoned that concept, I did, over the years, develop a set of regular characters and images that I kept coming back to, like the previously mentioned flying fists, a weird metal bat creature, the cigar-smoking frog, masks, and suited men who had to hold up their own lower jaws on a stick. After I graduated from college and got into Fort Thunder, my style changed pretty rapidly, and abandoned all of these characters except for, of course, the cigar-smoking Frog.

However, this past week, my buddy Natalia Ciolko asked me to do a two-page comic for the next issue of her zine Smear Campaign, and she was already reprinting some old FISTS strips, so I decided to do a whole new one.

Here’s the first page (I’ll have the second one up Friday):

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2010/01/22

Meditation

Filed under: Comix, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini — Tags: Comics, Meditation, STAPLE! Program Guide, Tranz, William Cardini — Mark P Hensel @ 07:05

Here’s the comic that I did for last year’s STAPLE! Program Guide:

I was working on TRANZ at the time, this is an earlier version of the “meditate” page that made it in the final mini.

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2010/01/20

Tall Kris ATTACKS Gasyooz Pages 1 and 2

Filed under: 2010 Resolution, Comix, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini — Tags: ATTACKS, Austin, Comics, STAPLE!, STAPLE! Program Guide, Tall Kris ATTACKS Gasyooz, The Gold County Paper Mill — Mark P Hensel @ 00:02

This past week I drew two pages of comics for the STAPLE! Program Guide.

Here’s a bit of the first page of my entry:

The Program Guide will be handed out to anyone who attends the indy media convention, where I’ll be tabling as part of the Gold County Paper Mill alongside a bunch of other cartoonists and exhibitors, including my buddies the League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen and the Poopsheet Foundation (see who’s attending and where they’re sitting here).

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2010/01/15

Titanic Clash of the Shamen Page 1

Filed under: 2010 Resolution, Comix, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini — Tags: 2010 Resolution, Austin, Comics, Glademade, Josh Burggraf, Shamanman, STAPLE!, Titanic Clash of the Shamen — Mark P Hensel @ 12:43

Inspired by my lady Glade’s resolution to make one new card design each week of 2010, my resolution is to draw at least one finished page of comics a week, and document it here on this blog. I might not always be able to show the whole page, but I will at least show part of it.

So how am I doing so far? Well, I’m considering a week to be from Sunday to Sunday, so I finished a page last week and I’ve sketched out and plan to ink two more pages this week.

Last week I finished the first page of the collaborative comic that I’m doing with Josh Burggraf called Titanic Clash of the Shamen. Here are the first two panels:

I’m super stoked about this project, our goal is to have the zine done in time for STAPLE!.

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2010/01/12

2009 Recap

Filed under: Admin, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini, Press, Publications — Tags: 2009, Austin, Austin Books, Chicago, Concertina Gallery, domy books, East Austin Studio Tour, Froghead Hangover, Glade Whitworth, Glademade, hahaclever.com, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini, Monster Show, Smoke Signal, STAPLE!, Taffy Hips, The Gold County Paper Mill, Tranz — Mark P Hensel @ 07:08

2009 was a great year here at the Hypercastle! Here’s some of the highlights:

I self-published two minicomics:

TRANZ, a collection of one-page shorts based around action verbs like “melt,” “grow,” “muliply,” and so on; copies available from me or at Domy Books in Austin
Froghead Hangover, a short autobiographical story about when I was living by myself in an apartment and had a run-in with a shaman; copies available from me, at Domy Books in Austin, or at Austin Books

I had my comics in issues of Smoke Signal, Taffy Hips, and the online zine hahaclever.com
I was in a few art shows, including Monster Show #4 at Domy and No More Worlds at Concertina Gallery in Chicago, which was picked as one of the top art shows of 2009 by Time Out Chicago (congrats to all the other artists and the curators!)
I participated in STAPLE! 2009 alongside the rest of the Gold County Paper Mill and in E.A.S.T. 2009 with my lady Glade Whitworth
I finally finished making websites for the G.C.P.M. and Glade (linked above)

2010 is already shaping up to be a great year, here’s hoping that it’ll blow 2009 out of the water! I’ve got several projects in work with some awesome and skilled creative people that I’ll be talking about as they manifest, a half-table for the G.C.P.M. and Glademade at STAPLE! 2010, and ideas for plenty of more comics that I’ll be submitting or self-publishing. I hope that everyone out there is having a great start to the new year, thanks for reading!

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2010/01/08

Hopital Brut 9 Release Party

Filed under: Drawz, Events, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini, Publications — Tags: Deborah Zafman Gallery, Drawings, France, Le Dernier Cri, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini, Paris, Screenprinting — Mark P Hensel @ 07:54

I just saw on the Good vs Evil magazine blog that Hopital Brut #9 is having a launch party the nite of January 14th at Deborah Zafman Gallery, which is at 3 – 5 passage des Gravilliers in Paris.

//HOPITAL BRUT 9//
Grafik survival kit / Sick-screengangblast/print and fold by handslavery/320 pages / differents sizes A4 +A5+A?????/ 280 sickscreen copies…
www.lederniercri.org

artistes internés : g / bolino / bretch vanderbroucke/ dave guedin / miruki tusko / nuvish / llcool jo/tonymar/ Massimiliano Bomba/ stumead /mathieu desjardins /elzo /mat brinkman/joao montreal/anne vanderlinden /jean kristeau /sam rictus /edward warez /keenan marshall keller /lionel darque /cripa+zekke / marthes bathori /moolinex /andreas marchal / kirckpatrick /craoman /owen plummer /edouard baribaud / Luke Ramsey /kazuya hoara/benjamin monti / mike diana /sekitani / yokogaga /lois lucas/valium /keiti ota /valparess /quicky /vida loco /vero /yannbo /krishna thorburn/marcusnyblom/pierre marty/ william cardini/quentin faucompre /christophe de fabry /fredox /mathias leihmann/remi/levasseur/patrick jannin /le liquidede la tete /andy bolus /yann taillefer /stephanie lucas /omer /george tourlas /marty /marcus nyblom /daniel cantrel / criellard /carosury / reijo /franck chatron /pascal nichols/dave 2000 /tommy musturi /carlos thomas /judex/yvang /laurie franck /pit /zven /bertoyas /laetitia /tourlas /ghana /kapreless/pit/criellard/andre lemos /zeke/gnot guedin /michel goyon /olivier texier/elmer presslee /antoinebernhart/didier progeas/ matti hagelberg /georgegarakis /misha good /gea /ichiba daisuke/bald eagle/

Sortie le 14 Janvier au soir à la galerie Deborah Zafman
3-5 passage des gravilliers
75003 PARIS
+ exposition Christophe de Fabry+expo planches dernier cri /