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September 11th, 2012

“Nature Club” by Melinda Tracy Boyce at Paper Party

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: Austin, Glade Hensel, Melinda Tracy Boyce, Paper Party, Texas, Watercolor —

My wife Glade had the first art opening at her shop-within-a-shop Paper Party this past weekend. The show, called “Nature Club,” is a collection of paintings of cacti, produce, and whales by local cartoonist Melinda Tracy Boyce.

Each piece is a beautiful watercolor with great details. Here are some of my faves:

Cactus Club.

Whale Sandwich.

Crystal Cactus.

Check out this detail shot of that one (which is the largest at 22.25×30″):

Detail of Crystal Cactus.

You can see a full image list with prices and online purchasing buttons here.

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August 17th, 2012

I’m on Pat Aulisio’s New Podcast

Filed under: Press — Tags: Erica Lambertson Philippe, Lanneau White, Marfa, Marfa Mystery Lights, Miizzzard, Pat Aulisio, Peter Gudynas, Philip K Dick, podcast, Texas, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch —

Pat Aulisio has started a podcast where he talks to his friends. Although everyone who’s been on his show so far is involved in comics, the podcasts have mainly been about movies and tv shows and other things.

Photo from Pat’s announcement on his tumblr (Pat’s yawning on the right).

Yesterday he posted his episode with me, click here to check it out. We talked about a bunch of stuff, including:

Living in Texas

Marfa Lights by Erica Lambertson Philippe (2011).

Marfa Mystery Lights
William Cardini’s secret origin

A photo from a performance I did with Lanneau White back in January of 2007 (I’m in a Miizzzard costume). Click here to see more images from a few of my performances.

Performance art and performing comics

My favorite Philip K Dick book (and therefore one of my favorite all-time sf books). Cover art by Peter Gudynas.

SF books, comics, movies, and TV shows

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March 21st, 2012

VGKids at Flatstock 33

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: Austin, Flatstock, Moby Dick, Texas, Tom Neely, VGKids —

This past week was South by Southwest in Austin. One thing that Glade (I remade her website for her birthday, check it out) and I always like to do is go to Flatstock.

VGKids poster for Flatstock 33.

Flatstock is a convention of concert poster artists put on in various cities by the American Poster Institute. There are always tons of dope screenprints there. We always seek out the art prints and buy a few of those. My favorite this year were a group of screenprinters from Ypsilanti, Michigan called VGKids.

Another VGKids poster and stickers. I’m not sure who did this artwork – maybe it’s collaborative?

They also do prints for other people. Check out this two-color Tom Neely print they did:

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March 6th, 2012

Quick STAPLE! 2012 Recap

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Austin, Bear Quest, GCPM, Glademade, Staple!, Texas, The Gold County Paper Mill, Zach Taylor —

There were tons of fun moments at STAPLE! 2012.

I’m chilling with the Cyclopean bear from Zach Taylor’s Bear Quest.

Thanks to everyone who came by our table.

The Gold County Paper Mill and Glademade’s table.

I felt like Sunday traffic wasn’t quite as heavy as last year, but it was great to meet fans, hopefully make some new ones, and hang with more cartoonists than I usually see.

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November 23rd, 2011

Quick E.A.S.T. Endcap

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Austin, East Austin Studio Tour, Glade Hensel, Texas —

Thanks to everyone who made it by Glade and I’s place during the 2011 East Austin Studio Tour!

We both had a blast and got to meet a ton of great people. My favorite though, were our first visitors. They were two teenagers who go to an arts magnet high school and their moms. One of them told me that they hope they can have a house like ours when they grow up. I hope that we inspired them just a little bit. It also made me think that high school me would probably be pretty stoked about the setup I have now. It’s good to get that reminder that I’m still living part of the bohemian artist dream while working a day job.

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November 18th, 2011

Final E.A.S.T. 2011 Weekend at the Hensel Hypercastle

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: Austin, candy or medicine, Catch Up, East Austin Studio Tour, Glade Hensel, Glademade, Gold County Paper Mill, Hypercastle, Josh Burggraf, Kid Space Heater, Lords ov thee Black Sun, Mike Miles, Secret Prison, Smoke Signal, Taffy Hips, Texas, Vortex —

Hey y’all, this upcoming weekend is your last chance to come by the Hensel Hypercastle during E.A.S.T. 2011 to see Glade and I’s art. Just like last weekend, we’ll be open from 11am to 6pm, Saturday and Sunday. We’re Stop #121 on the tour, 1807 East 22nd Street.

Here are some shots from last weekend:

Here’s the front door. We’ve got Glade’s Welcome to the Hypercastle print on the door, a new artwork by her above the TV, our Christmas tree (out a bit early, we know), and a spinner rack of Glademade cards.

Our coffee table is chockful of comics. Most of them are for reading but a few are for sale. I’ve got comics I’ve drawn (such as my latest, VORTEX), comics by fellow GCPM members (such as Kid Space Heater by Josh Burggraf and Lords ov thee Black Sun by Mike Miles), two issues of the GCP’s poetry/comics anthology Catch Up, and various issues of anthologies that I’ve been in (Math Fiction, Candy or Medicine, Smoke Signal, Taffy Hips, and Secret Prison). Come by, chill out on our couch, and feel free to flip through everything.

We’ve got almost all of the prints from our Hypercastle print show at Austin Books and Comics and every print we had for sale last year.

I switched out the artwork on my walls in my studio.

Glade has some birthday banners on the walls of her studio.

I hope to see some of y’all this weekend!

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March 11th, 2011

Awthum Fetht 6666

Filed under: Events — Tags: Austin, Awthum Empire, Awthum Fetht, Music, SXSW, Texas —

I know that I keep talking about this Glade and Mark comic, and it’s coming, I swear y’all, but other things just keep coming up that are time sensitive, like STAPLE! and now SXSW. Also, I have some other comics that I haven’t posted here that are even older, so I may post those first. We’ll see. So, please ignore my empty promises and I’ll stop making them.

Anyway, for the sixth year in a row, the Awthum Empire, producers of fringe, DIY and avant garde culture in Austin and beyond, is putting on their one-day music festival, Awthum Fetht. And, just like last year, I drew a flyer for it:

Also, if you’re a band interested in a flyer or other artwork, please feel free to contact me.

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March 8th, 2011

STAPLE! Recap

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: 2011, Austin, David Fullen, Glade Hensel, Glademade, Mark P Hensel, Michael Miles, Staple!, Texas, The Gold County Paper Mill, William Cardini —

Hey yawl, the Gold County Paper Mill and Glademade had a blast at STAPLE! last weekend, thanks to everyone who hung out and bought stuff!

Zoom out shot of the table (I was able to get everything in the image except for the second Glademade card rack). Glade’s face is like “why are you d00dz hiding?”

We met a ton of kewl people and got to hang out with kewl people we’ve met at past STAPLE!s (that plural spelling of STAPLE! is straight from the style guide, I swear).

Now everyone is showing their faces. From left to right: Michael Miles, David Fullen, Glade Hensel.

Some highlights:

The people across the aisle from us, writer Adam Smith and artist Matt Fox of Wet Black Ghost press, had driven all the way from Little Rock, Arkansas, where they say there’s not much of a scene. I dug their short sci-fi comic and I’m looking forward to the fantasy webcomic that’s on the way.
Speaking of driving cross country, I met several people who said they had just moved to Austin from Portland, like the cartoonists Aaron Whitaker and Melinda Boyce. Coincidence or growing trend? Let’s hope more cartoonists defect here.
Jake Ewing, proprietor of Awesome Comics in Dallas, shared a table with the Arkansas boys. He makes pretty kewl little folded full-color comics.
I’m really glad that Sparkplug Comics had a table at STAPLE!, I wish their were more out of town indy publishers there. Chris C. Cilla was in attendance, so I’m glad I’d been waiting to buy his new book The Heavy Hand from Domy so I could get a signed book straight from the author. I started reading it on the bus ride home from work yesterday and I’m really digging it.
It was good to talk to Paul Maybury and his also talented assistant Ricky Valenzuela. If I’d had more dough I would’ve bought some of Maybury’s sick looking original pages. At least we got to talk about coloring for a bit.
Man, I love how Toby Craig is still putting out watercolored comics in Houston. His earlier series Monster Engine was the first DIY comic I ever bought back at Bedrock City Comics on 1960.
I dug Partydog‘s VHS-style comic The Body is a System. Also he handed me a hilarious xerox mini of stick figure collaborations with his bf on this site. Loved it.
I was hoping that Zach Taylor would have Bear Quest 2 ready but his jam comic with Chris Sweet, 16-bit Breakfast, will tide me over for a bit.
I always enjoy chatting with Jen and MC of Buttersword. Their comics are like an angrier Porcellino with some sf elements thrown in every once in a while. Basically, they’re super real, honest, and independent. Also I applaud them for monetizing MC’s toy collecting.
Palfloat is a true Austin original. Click that link – you’ll thank me.

I hope to see you all again (and more people!) at STAPLE! 2012. Also, if you’re wondering, I’ll start posting the eight-page Glade and Mark comic on Friday. Click here for additional photos and GCPM-centric commentary

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March 4th, 2011

The GCPM and Glademade at STAPLE! 2011

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Austin, candy or medicine, David Fullen, Glade Hensel, Glademade, Ian Harker, Jak Cardini, josh blair, Josh Burggraf, Math Fiction, Michael Miles, Noel Freibert, Pat Aulisio, Robert Bozwell, Staple!, Texas, The Gold County Paper Mill, William Cardini —

Hey y’all, David Fullen, Michael Miles and myself of the Gold County Paper Mill will be tabling at STAPLE! this weekend alongside Glade Hensel’s Glademade for the third year in a row.

This year, for the first time ever, STAPLE! will be two days, March 5th and 6th! The event is at Marchesa Hall and Theater from 11am to 6pm on Saturday and noon to 6pm on Sunday. It costs ten dollars for one day and $15 for both days.

The GCPM and Glademade will be sharing Table 76, which is in the Annex. If you’re standing with your back to the entrance, the Annex is the room to the back and the left. We’ll be selling a lot of stuff, both old and new. Here’s what we’ll have in alphabetical order:

Screenprints and digital prints of my ATTACKS one-page comics
Candy or Medicine Volume 12, a minicomics anthology edited and published by Josh Blair (I drew the cover of this volume)
The second issue of Catch Up, a comics and poetry magazine edited and published by Jak Cardini and Robert Bozwell of the GCPM, featuring two different covers by Josh Burggraf, comics by Noel Freibert, poetry by Adam Day, and a short story by David Fullen
Comet a print by Glade Hensel
Froghead Hangover, a twelve-page xeroxed zine by me
Glademade greeting cards
Hypermorph, a digital print in original colors and the inverse
Lords ov thee Black Sun, a xerox zine by Michael Miles
Masks, a twelve-page xeroxed zine by me
One read-only copy of Math Fiction, a sixteen-page 11×17″ blue/red anaglyph 3D comic featuring Pat Aulisio, Ian Harker, Josh Burggraf, and myself
A two-color Miizzzard screenprint in purple/green or purple/orange
Original art by myself and Michael Miles
Shaman Thunder, a twelve-page xerox comic that Josh Burggraf and I made together
Slime Studies, a zine by Michael Miles
TRANZ, a twelve-page zine by me

A process shot from Michael Miles. He’s working to get Slime Studies finished in time for STAPLE!

Also, there are pre- and post-parties for STAPLE! The pre-party is 7-11pm tonight at Austin Books and Comics. There are an after-parties Saturday and Sunday at Club Deville from 8pm to whenever. We might be at some of these – if you see us feel free to say wuzzup.

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November 30th, 2010

E.A.S.T. Recap and New Miizzzard Screenprint for Sale

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: Austin, Boongoo Studio, East Austin Studio Tour, Miizzzard, Screenprint, Texas, William Cardini —

I hope that everyone in the U.S. had a belly-filling Thanksgiving! One thing I’m thankful for is everyone who came by our studio during E.A.S.T., so thanks y’all. Of course, what I have is never enough, so Glade and I spent some time brainstorming ways to bring even more people in next year. We’ll see if they work.

If you’re feeling nostalgic, I just added a couple photos to the East Austin Studio Tour 2010 set on my flickr, check it out here.

On the last day of the tour, I finally had a new edition of 20 Miizzzard screenprints ready for sale. Here’s a shot of the purple/green version (there’s also purple/orange):

This print’s for sale. I’m gonna try out one of these fancy Paypal buttons:

Colors

If you’re ordering from outside the U.S. I’m going to have to bill you extra for the additional shipping.
Click here to see process shots of the screenprints

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