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2010/03/26

WITCH ATTACKS Screenprints for Sale

Filed under: Drawz, Gold County Paper Mill, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini — Tags: Austin, domy books, Glade Whitworth, Glademade, Gold County Paper Mill, hahaclever, League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen, Rand Renfrow, Screenprint, STAPLE!, Texas, Witch ATTACKS — Mark P Hensel @ 07:33

As I’ve mentioned, the incredibly talented Rand Renfrow made some dope-ass three-color screenprints of my one-page comic Witch ATTACKS (previously featured on hahaclever). Look at these things, they’re perfect, it looks like a machine made them:

If you’re interested in owning one of these limited edition bad boys, they’re on sale at Domy here in Austin or you can just buy one from me. Leave a comment or send an email to mark p hensel at g mail dot com.

Also, check out this video interview that the League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen d00dz did of me and Glade at STAPLE! alongside a bunch of other talented exhibitors. We’re the first ones in this video and there are four more that you can check out if you want to see who all was at STAPLE!:

Because I didn’t give him a shout out in the video, props to Robert Bozwell, fellow member of the GCPM, for the work that he did designing the Catch Up website!

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2010/03/05

STAPLE! 2010 Stuff

Filed under: Events, Gold County Paper Mill, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini, Publications — Tags: Comics, dvds, GCPM, Glade Whitworth, Jak Cardini, poetry, STAPLE!, STAPLE! 2010, The Gold County Paper Mill, Van Der Graaf Generator, William Cardini — Mark P Hensel @ 07:54

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.

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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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2010/02/23

Titanic Clash of the Shamen Page 7

Filed under: 2010 Resolution, Comix, Drawz, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini — Tags: Comics, Drawings, Faber-Castelli, Floyd, Josh Burggraf, Mark P Hensel AKA William Cardini, MoCCA Fest 2010, Productivity, Public School, Shamanman, Sketch Klubb, STAPLE!, Titanic Clash of the Shamen — Mark P Hensel @ 07:46

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

We were hoping to have the comic finished in time for STAPLE! but it looks like that won’t happen, considering that we would have to do five more pages and the cover in a week. However, we do plan on having it done in time for MoCCA Fest, April 10-11th at the 69th Regiment Armory in NYC, where Josh will have a table.

Page 7 took me a while to plan out. Although I knew what I roughly wanted to happen and who was going to say what early on, I had to do a lot of sketches and try drawing the page with a number of different layouts. Josh has definitely drawn a pretty psyched-out Page 6, and I don’t want Page 7 to come up short.

Here are some of my sketches, in chronological order:

In this first one I was trying to figure out a good panel layout and some good back-and-forth magical attacks between Floyd and Shamanman.

In this second one, I refined my idea of how I wanted Shamanman to attack.

Once I busted out the Faber-Castelli I was really able to get some images flowing. I drew this one and the next a couple days later than the first two, at Sketch Klubb this past Thursday. The good people at Public School were kind enough to host us. Their studio set up is dope and it was good to jam with a bunch of new people.

The final sketch from that nite. At this point I was on the verge of drunkenness and just kind of doodling some ideas floating around in my head, including Shamanman transformed into a yeti and some space invaders that I might put into a future project.

Here’s one panel from the final page:

I ended up using a lot of the ideas that I sketched in my final drawing.

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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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2010/01/20

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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