Cropped Will Cardini artwork

September 12th, 2017

Tales from the Hyperverse Debuts at SPX 2017

My new comic from Retrofit, Tales from the Hyperverse, debuts this weekend at the Small Press Expo near Washington, DC!

Tales from the Hyperverse by William Cardini cover

Unfortunately I won’t be there but if you can make it, SPX is a blast. I will be at the next show at which Retrofit is tabling, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.

And if you can’t make it to either show and you missed out on the Kickstarter, you can preorder at the Retrofit site or wait until I get my copies and can offer signed copies on this site.

January 4th, 2017

Check out my Comics on Birdcage Bottom Books

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 8:21 am

J.T. Yost recently had to redo the site of his publishing company and distro, Birdcage Bottom Books. Unfortunately all the old links no longer work.

Check out my new page on the site!

Birdcage Bottom Books new site screenshot

J.T. included me in the anthology Digestate, which is still for sale, and also distributes Vortex and all the still in-print issues of Future Shock.

September 28th, 2016

Vortex Available in Comic Shops Today!

Filed under: Press,Print Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 9:56 am

Vortex should be available at your local comic shops today!

The comics critic Jog has chosen Vortex as a spotlight picks for his weekly column on new releases for The Comics Journal website, here’s a screenshot:

Screenshot of This Week in Comics by Jog for The Comics Journal

If you can’t find Vortex at your shop you can ask them to order it for you.

September 22nd, 2016

Vortex in Comic Book Shops Next Week 9/28!

Filed under: Print Comics,Web Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 10:51 pm

Turns out I was wrong in my previous posts – Vortex isn’t arriving in comic shops on October 26th, it’ll arrive much sooner, next Wednesday, September 28th!

Vortex spread 23
Vortex spread 23.

If you want to check out a preview of Vortex, I’ve been posting the two-page spreads on the Comics Workbook Tumblr:

Here’s a few more spreads:

Vortex spread 12
Vortex spread 12.

Vortex spread 14
Vortex spread 14.

Vortex spread 21
Vortex spread 21.

Vortex spread 25
Vortex spread 25.

Vortex spread 30
Vortex spread 30.

Vortex spread 35
Vortex spread 35.

August 31st, 2016

Update on Vortex in Previews

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 10:33 pm

This Friday 9/2 is the final order cutoff to get Vortex from your local comic book stop on its release date of 10/26 9/28.

Check out the full listing in Previews here.

August 23rd, 2016

Vortex is in the August Previews

Filed under: Press,Print Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 10:37 pm

I’m very excited to tell y’all that Vortex is on Page 269 of Previews, the Diamond comics catalogue! It’ll be on shelves in fine comic book stores across the US on October 26th September 28th.

If you’d like a copy, ask your local comic book store to order it for you before September 2nd.

Order code AUG161125.

Alternative Comics page of the August Previews

You may have noticed that these two pages are the Alternative Comics section of Previews. After Virginia Paine decided to close Sparkplug Books, Marc Arsenault of Alternative Comics inherited most of Sparkplug’s backstock. I’m grateful to Virginia for taking a chance on Vortex and all the work she did to get the Kickstarter funded and the book printed and distributed. Running a publisher as a third job is hard work and I’m glad that she’s going to be able to focus on her own awesome comics, like The WHYs, an epic webcomic about queer superpowered teens.

The reviewer Rob Clough of High-Low said goodbye to Sparkplug in a review round-up that includes Vortex.

November 3rd, 2015

Future Shock Zero and Ink Brick 4 Debut at CAB

Filed under: Events,Print Comics — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 10:23 am

I have comics in two comics collections that will debut at Comic Arts Brooklyn this weekend (Nov 7th): Future Shock 0 and Ink Brick 4. If you can’t make it to CAB, both are also available for preorder.

Future Shock 0 is a full-color astro-psych SF anthology edited by Josh Burggraf and published by Retrofit Comics.

Future Shock Zero cover by Jordan Speer
Cover by Jordan Speer.

My six-page comic is called “Ax the Ship.” You can preorder it here.

Ink Brick 4 is a full-color journal of comics poetry run by Alexander Rothman, Paul K. Tunis, and Alexey Sokolin.

Ink Brick 4 cover by Matt Huynh
Cover illustration by Matt Huynh and design by Alexey Sokolin.

My four-page contribution is called “Mud Mind.” You can preorder it here.

July 14th, 2015

“Rock Troll” in RhiZome #3

Filed under: Press,Print Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 10:55 am

I’m the token American in the third issue of the British SF anthology series RhiZome, edited by Rob Jackson and Kyle Baddeley-Read. My comic, “Rock Troll,” is ten pages long. Here’s the first page:

Rock Troll Page 1

RhiZome #3 was reviewed by Richard Bruton on the Forbidden Planet blog. He liked “Rock Troll.” Here’s a quote:

A thing of some shape meets a rock. And the rock turns nasty. And then other stuff. It’s hardly War & Peace but by heck, it’s great. Maybe it’s the visual simplicity of it all, but whatever it was, it’s great.

Buy it from the shop link on Rob Jackson’s website. It’s £4 plus £2 if you’re outside the UK.

Here’s another page:

Rock Troll Page 4

Kyle Baddeley-Read posted an interview with me on the RhiZome blog. Here’s an excerpt:

From the first three issues of RhiZome, what stories have stood out to you? Why?

My favorite story is “Corporation Pop” by Rob Jackson. The first two installments were in RhiZome #1 and #2. I like how Rob depicts a mundane office life that is spiraling out of control into a paranoid fantasy where nothing seems real. Tyler Stafford’s comic in RhiZome #2 is also amazing, like all of his work. He puts in a lot of little details in his drawings that make his SF worlds grounded. I also dig his character designs.

October 1st, 2014

The Hiizzztory of the Miizzzard Part 8: The Miizzzard of the Year One Million ATTACKS the Floating Crystal Witch

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 9:14 am

2 days left in the Sparkplug Books Kickstarter campaign to publish my graphic novel Vortex and Elijah Brubaker’s Reich #12!

I finished this six-page comic exactly two years ago. Josh Burggraf published it in his astro-sf anthology comic Future Shock #3. I was experimenting with the coloring, trying to the style of my comics closer to my acrylic paintings. I also was trying out a genderbent character design for the Miizzzard, who shifts shape and gender throughout millennia.

Click here to see the rest of The Hiizzztory of the Miizzzard.

September 30th, 2014

The Hiizzztory of the Miizzzard Part 7: The Miizzzard ATTACKS the Munchies

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 9:00 am

3 days left in the Sparkplug Books Kickstarter campaign to publish my graphic novel Vortex and Elijah Brubaker’s Reich #12! Virginia Paine has announced that if we get $2,000 over our goal, Sparkplug will be able to publish a Yumi Sakugawa mini.

I originally drew this four-page comic for J.T. Yost’s Digestate anthology in July 2012. I used a lot of patterns from Vortex for it.

Click here to see the rest of The Hiizzztory of the Miizzzard.