Cropped Will Cardini artwork

June 16th, 2009

MoCCA Part Two: Cartooning, FS, and GP

At MoCCA Fest 2009 I started thinking about cartooning as a craft distinct from comics that I don’t practice that much. I’ve only developed a couple of ways of drawing cartoon faces that I slightly modify and draw over and over again. Scratch that, actually I just have one:

Mark’s face.

It’s pretty simple, really. Rudimentary, actually: one straight line, one Z, and then some wiggly lines for hair, beard, and so on.

I think that it was flipping through the Sam’s Strip book and looking at all of Jerry Dumas’ really elegant cartoons, but for whatever reason, I came to the conclusion that, perhaps, one straight line, one Z, and at least nine wiggly lines just wasn’t a true expression of cartooning expertise.

So, I began drawing cartoons of Frank Santoro and Gary Panter while I was waiting for their panel at MoCCA to start (for a great overview of that panel, be sure to check out this squally showers post).

Here are my two favorite likenesses:

(Paraphrased quotation from Gary Panter added later, after the panel had started. Another awesome thing that he said: “The future will be like terminator except the robots will look slick like tennis shoes.”

via hypebeast.)

Anyways I think that I’m gonna spend some time developing my cartooning chops. Looking at Sam’s Strip also got me thinking about doing a weekly comic harking back to the pure idea behind the daily newspaper strip:

Six panels where the same thing happens over and over again in different ways. I’ve always wanted to do a strip like this but I’ve always been stalled by what is, for me, the core of it all: the repeated action.

I tried it out with my Daily Texan strip, “Fists.” The idea was that someone would get hit by a gloved fist on a stick every comic, an idea that owes its existence to Ignatz’s brick.

Of course, nothing about that comic ended up being standardized except for its iconography, which I still like and want to bring back some day:

Like the materials-based sculptures and performances that I used to do, this iconography is something that I came up with back before I got so heavily influenced by Fort Thunder. So many ideas, so little time. We’ll see how much of this comes to fruition, I’ve got a looooong to-do list.

June 12th, 2009

MoCCA Part One: Inzpiration

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , — William Cardini @ 1:01 am

This was only my second trip to MoCCA Fest, but each time my head has come back overflowing with planzzz. Here are the BIG STUD PLANS I came up with on the plane ride home:

Turn hypercastle.com into a merged superblog
Put together HYPERBOX motion comic images for Will Sellari
Buy screenprinting hinges and more screens
Screenprint the cover for FROGHEAD HANGOVER
Screenprint t-shirts
Draw HYPERBOX #4
Draw SLUMLORD 2112 #1

Whew is that it!

May 24th, 2009

SMOKE SIGNAL Fundraiser

Filed under: Uncategorized — William Cardini @ 12:32 pm

I’ve submitted a half-pager to the all-comics newspaper SMOKE SIGNAL that the comic store Desert Island in Brooklyn is gonna put out. Here’s a panel from my strip, called SHAMANMAN:

SHAMANMANpanel6

If you want to see the rest, help make SMOKE SIGNAL a reality by coming out to the fundraiser, tomorrow (Memorial Day) at Union Pool! There’ll be a concert featuring

Uninhabitable Mansions
Ambergris
Boogie Boarder
Darlings

Doors open at 7, it costs $8 to get in – all proceeds go towards printing costs!!!

Union Pool is located at 484 Union Ave in Brooklyn, NY (718) 609-0484, right near the Lorimer L + Metropolitan G train stops.

May 17th, 2009

Mawwwr TRANZ

Filed under: Uncategorized — William Cardini @ 3:07 pm

Although I drew these pages for a show to benefit an art space, they’re a continuation of the ideas I was dealing with in TRANZ:

5x7meltstructure

5x7grow

5x7meltmark

This next (and last) one is my favorite.

5x7multiply

I’ve started working on a new twelve-page comic that incorporates the MULTIPLY idea into a longer narrative, I’m super stoked about it! I plan to have it ready for when I come to MoCCA Fest 09 so if you’re coming/tabling be prepared to trade me a zine for it!

May 5th, 2009

Patrick Smith

Filed under: Uncategorized — William Cardini @ 12:01 am

I have yet to download his new game Windosill, but just from his blog and website I can see that the Dan-Nadel-recommended artist Patrick Smith is a man after my own brain.

Comics, drawings, paintings, animations, and video games – what more could my nerdy heart ask for? Unfortunately his site seems to be down or I’d post some images, but at least check out the Ganzfeld splash page for a nice example of one of his interactions. Ganzfeld #1 contains one of his comics but it’s sold out (probably has been for a while). From his site it doesn’t seem like he produces many comics, although I’m sure that making an independent game is an extremely time-consuming process.

December 15th, 2008

I’ve Achieved Internet Fame

Filed under: Uncategorized — William Cardini @ 10:39 pm

July 20th, 2008

GCPM at EKE 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — William Cardini @ 3:35 pm

The final performance of the Gold County Paper Mill!

The Owl Minions of the Gold County Paper Mill summon the Miizzzard as a sacrifice to Moloch’s Capitalist Agenda, but his innate Sublimity overcomes!

July 8th, 2008

Hyper Distribution List

Filed under: Print Comics,Uncategorized — William Cardini @ 7:44 pm

All three Hyperboxes can be purchased by e-mailing me at markphensel at gmail dot com or by checking the Atomics Book online catalog and searching for Hyperbox. Or visit these fine establishments:

Austin Books, Austin, TX
Omni #1-2, Trash

End of an Ear, Austin, TX
Hyperbox #1-3

Okaymountain, Austin, TX
Hyperbox #3

Domy Books, Houston, TX
Trash, Hyperbox #1-3

Quimby’s, Chicago, IL
Hyperbox #1-2

Atomic Books, Baltimore, MD
Hyperbox #1-3

Rocketship, Brooklyn, NY
Hyperbox #3

May 15th, 2008

Variation on Construction Project #6

Filed under: Uncategorized — William Cardini @ 4:02 pm

cognitive dissonance: a diagram

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May 10th, 2008

Construction Project #6

Filed under: Uncategorized — William Cardini @ 3:15 pm

Sorry been busy. Here’s a new one …

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