Thanks to everyone who donated to the Kickstarter, Secret Prison #2 has been published!

If you didn’t pick a copy up at the Philly Alternative Comic Con, it’ll be available at SPX and various shops in Philly. For those who missed it, here’s another preview of my comic:

I think it’s one of the best comics that I’ve done yet.
My comic The Miizzzard of the Year 2978 ATTACKS the Flying Fortress of the Floating Crystal Witch was posted on Arthur last nite!
Click this preview image to check it out:

This comic is a standalone sequel to a comic I put up on hahaclever a while back, Witch ATTACKS.
Two members of the GCPM, myself and Josh Burggraf, got into the second issue of Secret Prison! Here’s the totally dope cover by Benjamin Marra, who will also have a two-page comic in there:

Secret Prison #2 needs your help to happen. They’ve started a Kickstarter page where you can donate to get copies of the issue or ad space. I’m offering up my services to anyone who wants a custom ad drawn for them for the second issue of Secret Prison, leave a comment or contact me at mark p hensel at gmail dot commm if you’re interested and we can work out the deetz.
Josh has already drawn one for the Gold County Paper Mill and the second issue of Catch-Up, check it:

Finally, here’s a preview of my comic (I think it’s the best one that I’ve drawn yet) to pique your interest:

I got a comic in Smoke Signal #5!

I’m super stoked to be in it alongside such kewl contributors. You can walk in to Desert Island and pick up a copy or order one through their shop.
The past week and a half I haven’t been doing any comic pages. Instead I’ve been working on different versions of a flyer/poster for Awthum Fetht V, which will be next week here in Austin.
Here’s the internet flyer:

Here’s the 11 x 17 color poster, with a full list of all the bands:

They might have some prints of this poster for the first few people who get in the door.
I’m available to do flyers and other promotional materials for bands or shows. If you’re interested, just leave a comment or send me a message at mark p hensel at g mail dot com (no spaces).
Thanks to everyone who came out to see the Gold County Paper Mill and Glademade at our half table this year, we had a blast!

pictured: Dave Fullen and Dr. Chuch of the GCPM, and one of the guys from the Poopsheet Foundation
Each year STAPLE! gets better for us and we really appreciate y’all for making it happen. As you can see, the GCPM debuted a lot of new items at this show, including our DVD of performance art, GPCM t-shirts, David Fullen’s zine of sci-fi short-short stories Swimming at Work, Jak Cardini’s poetry chapbook There Is a Mars, and dope three-color screenprints of my one-page comic WITCH ATTACKS done by the super talented Rand Renfrow as part of his publishing initiative Test Everything. Next year, we’ll have even more – we’re definitely going to have to get a full table.
And for all of y’all who weren’t at STAPLE!, never fear, we’ll be posting our new items for sale here or on our etsy soon. And hey, if you don’t want to wait, just leave a comment or send an email to mark p hensel at gmail dot com (no spaces).
Last nite Glade and I were jamming to some Van Der Graaf Generator and working in our studios. I was finishing up my flyer for Awthumfetht 2010 while Glade worked on cards for STAPLE! 2010, which I’m super stoked about. I got a package full of GCPM t-shirts and poetry chapbooks from my buddy Jak Cardini yesterday, so I was able to lay out most of the stuff that we’ll have on Saturday, check it out:

Dr Chuch also put together a bunch of our DVDs:

I hope to see y’all on Saturday! We’ll be at table 51A.
Another week no second post, and then I don’t post until Wednesday nite? Jeeeez I gotta get back in the GAME. Seriously though I’m going to try to post every Tuesday and Friday but sometimes I won’t make it, that’s just how it is, so I’m going to stop commenting on it.
This upcoming weekend is STAPLE! 2010. I’ll be exhibiting as part of the Gold County Paper Mill for the third year in a row!
We’ll have a lot of great stuff, including:
- T-shirts screenprinted by Jak Cardini and Sarah Cassidy with our owl god (viewable [and purchasable!] on our etsy)
- The Gold County Paper Mill Presents the DVD (viewable on our etsy), a collection of live performances and videos featuring myself, Jak Cardini, and Dr. Chuch (some of which can be watched either here or here), and an interactive version of the comic Impossible Objects, where I illustrated lines from Jak Cardini’s poetry
- Print versions of the Impossible Objects comic
- Jak Cardini Achieves the Narratological Singularity and There Is a Mars, two poetry chapbooks by Jak Cardini
- Swimming at Work, a collection of short fiction by David Fullen
- Screenprints of my comic WITCH ATTACKS (previously published online at hahaclever.com) done by the super-talented Rand Renfrow
- Other digital prints of two of my one-page ATTACKS comics
- My minicomics Masks, TRANZ, and Froghead Hangover
We’re also going to be splitting our table space with the greeting cards and fabric art of my lovely (and talented!) fiancée Glade Whitworth. We hope to see y’all there, you can see our location of our table in the Monarch Event Center (where STAPLE! will be this Saturday, 3/6/10, from 11am to 7pm) here. We’ll be at table 51A, right by our buddies the Poopsheet Foundation and the League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen. Also, when you come, be sure to check out the STAPLE! Program Guide, in which I’ll have a two-page comic.
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!
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 /
Hopital Brut is printed by the legendary French publishing collective Le Dernier Cri.
I’m super stoked to be a part of this book alongside some of my drawing heroes!