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2010/03/03

STAPLE! 2010

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.

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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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2010/01/20

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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2009/10/22

New ATTACKS Comic Published on hahacleverdotcom

Filed under: Comix, Drawz, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini — Tags: ATTACKS, Comics, hahacleverdotcom, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini, Reynard Seifert, The Floating Crystal Witch Attacks the Miizzard of the Year 2978 — Mark P Hensel @ 09:07

My newest ATTACKS comic, The Floating Crystal Witch ATTACKS the Miizzzard of the Year 2978, is up at Reynard Seifert’s site for comics, poetry, and short stories, hahacleverdotcom.

Reynard puts a bunch of great shit up there every other Wednesday, y’all should keep on top of it.

Here’s a preview of my comic:

I was trying to reproduce the effect of a three-color screenprint image on the computer.

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