Cropped Will Cardini artwork

September 1st, 2023

Paper Plains Zine Fest 2

Filed under: Comic Fests — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 7:46 am

This Sunday I’ll be tabling at the second Paper Plains Zine Fest in Lawrence, KS!

I’ll have this new riso print for sale…

Robot Warrior 001 risograph print

…plus my usual offerings.

Paper Plains Zine Fest 2 flyer: Saturday September 2nd: Workshops and Programs at KU and throughout Lawrence. Sunday September 3rd: Vendor Fair 11am to 5pm at Van Go, 715 New Jersey St., Lawrence, KS.
Flyer by Lydia Halo.

This year, they’ve expanded PPZF to two days, and divided the programming and tabling onto separate days, which I love to see because tablers can attend without losing out on sales! The schedule on their website has the programming for Day 1, AKA tomorrow.

Sunday will be all tabling; I’ll be at Table 35, cozily sandwiched between my buddies Red Shorts Bindery and Jason Lips, plus a surprise special guest!! Click here to see a table map

March 15th, 2013

Sammiches Exhibition Photos and Ordering Link

Filed under: Art Shows — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 11:51 am

Sorry I didn’t have a blog post for y’all this past Tuesday, I was sick.

Star Gods Press has posted some photos from the Sammiches Launch + Exhibition this past Friday in Vancouver. Here are some highlights:

Sammiches Book with a dude for comparison
A Sammiches book with a dude for comparison.

A Sammich on TV
A sammich on TV.

A strip of original sammich art
A strip of Sammiches original art.

Since I drew my sammich on my computer, I sent them a digital print. It’s the one with a light blue background in this photo:

You can see more photos from the opening on the Star Gods Press Flickr stream.

You can order Sammiches on the Star Gods Press site.

February 1st, 2013

Shipping Increase; Reblog Contest

Filed under: Admin — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 2:05 pm

Hi y’all, I’m going to start with a bit of bad news – because of the US postage increase, which mainly affects international orders, I had to raise the international shipping cost on everything in my store on this site.

But I do have some good news for y’all – I’m doing a giveaway! Reblog this Tumblr post advertising the prints I’ve recently added to my store anytime between now and Friday, February 8th at midnight central US time, and I’ll select one person who gets a free 6×9″ ink drawing of the Miizzzard on smooth watercolor paper.

William Cardini Digital Prints Composite
If there’s an artwork or single comics page that you’d like to see me offer as a digital print, let me know.

I’m going more commercial than I usually do to try and raise money to get to my table at TCAF.

January 29th, 2013

Hyperbroadcasts

Filed under: On Sale,Press — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 11:12 am

I’ve got a couple bits of news:

William Cardini Digital Prints Composite
If there’s an artwork or single comics page that you’d like to see me offer as a digital print, let me know.

I love the increasingly abstract and artificial texture of Cardini’s series…. It’s interesting to see a book done in the “mark-making” school of comics drawn entirely on a computer, as it heightens reader tension and makes the contents all the more alien in its coldness.

  • Here’s a somewhat abstract Vortex #3 preview page:

Vortex 3 Page 13
This is Page 13. Vortex #3 is also available in my online store, in a combo pack or by itself.

December 7th, 2012

Paper Party Print Show Opening this Saturday

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 7:14 am

This Saturday is the opening for the Paper Party Print Show. I have a print in it alongside some other awesome artists. Here’s the flyer:

Paper Party Print Show flyer
There’ll also be art openings at the other stores in Domy Books Austin.

Here’s an image of my digital print:

Miizzzard digital print

September 2nd, 2011

3D Hypercastle Print

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 7:25 am

Here’s the final print from Glade and I’s show at Austin Books:

3D Hypercastle

This digital print is called “3D Hypercastle” because it’s red/blue anaglyph 3D. I kept the blue stationary and shifted the red layers, so the 3D glasses that I got from Toy Joy only work if you fold them backwards.

Here’s a colored, non-3D version of the print:

Colored 3D Hypercastle

Although the show is no longer up in the back room of Austin Books, you can still buy them from us or from the print rack at Austin Books:

Austin Books print rack

Let me know if you want to get something. Here are the links to the rest of our prints:

August 30th, 2011

Flower Hypercastle by Glade Hensel and Ads in Secret Prison #5

Filed under: Inspiration,Print Comics — Tags: , , , , , , , , — William Cardini @ 8:33 pm

Hey y’all, sorry I made a mistake with my blogging and released an incomplete post early on Monday instead of today. Here’s the post that I intended to publish this morning:

Here’s a print that Glade made for our show at Austin Books (Speaking of our show, if any of y’all want to see our prints at Austin Books and haven’t yet, this week is your last chance! Tomorrow is the last day.):

Flower Hypercastle by Glade Hensel

This print is called “Flower Hypercastle.” It’s a digital print of a gouache painting. This past Saturday Glade and I just hung out at home, painted, and watched Mad Men. I spend so much time working on comics on the computer that I forget how relaxing and visceral painting can be. I’m going to try to make painting more a part of my regular art routine.

Something I’m excited about but haven’t mentioned on here yet is that I’m the co-featured artist for Secret Prison #5. It’s especially exciting because I love the work of the featured artist, Tom Scioli. Gødland is one of my favorite comics. I’m bringing it up now because it’s debuting at SPX in a week and a half and they’re looking for people to buy ad space before this Sunday, Sept 3rd. Here’s an information sheet (with a small preview of Scioli’s dope cover):

Secret Prison Ad Sheet

If any of y’all want me to draw your ad for you just drop me a line at mark p hensel /at/ g mail /dot/ com.

August 26th, 2011

Rainbow Hypercastle

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 7:31 am

Here’s a print that I made for Glade and I’s show at Austin Books:

Rainbow Hypercastle

It’s called “Rainbow Hypercastle.” I was mashing together flying whales, Penrose triangles, floating islands, space, custom patterns, rainbows, and the devil’s fork.

August 23rd, 2011

Welcome to the Hypercastle by Glade Hensel

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , , , , , — William Cardini @ 7:09 am

Here’s a print that Glade made for our show at Austin Books:

Welcome to the Hypercastle by Glade Hensel

This print is called “Welcome to the Hypercastle.” It’s a digital print of a gouache painting. I love Glade’s text treatment. You can see a similar design that she did for a Happy Birthday card here.

August 19th, 2011

Glade and Mark’s Hensel Hypercastle

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 7:00 am

Here’s a print that I made for Glade and I’s show at Austin Books:

Hensel Hypercastle

This print is called “Glade and Mark’s Hensel Hypercastle” because Glade suggested I base one of our hypercastle prints on the hypercastle I drew for this page of my comic “Rocky Mountain Chomp.” I was originally going to make a two-color screenprint, but I designed the screens with overprinting (so I wouldn’t have to worry about precise registration) without realizing that the bottom blue layer would show through the yellow top layer. Rookie mistake!