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Here's a selection of my comics from newest to oldest:

“Cosmic Planet-Eating Contest”

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This is an eight-page, full-color comic, published here for the first time! I drew it from a script by Mark Peters. Mark Peters is a humorist and comic book writer from Chicago. He is @wordlust on Twitter and the author of Bullshit: A Lexicon.

Reluctant Oracle #1

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Reluctant Oracle #1 is the first installment of my latest graphic novel featuring Mim, a robot sculptor stranded in the Hyperverse. 29 pages of full-color psychedelic comics by Will Cardini plus haiku by Peter Hensel and fan art by Colin Panetta and Pat Aulisio, self-published in 2021.

“The Big Baby”

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This is a five-page, full-color comic, published here for the first time! I drew it from a script by Mark Peters. Mark Peters is a humorist and comic book writer from Chicago. He is @wordlust on Twitter and the author of Bullshit: A Lexicon.

“Anxious about Climate Change?”

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This is a four-page comic of advice for dealing with anxiety about Earth’s future. I drew it for a zine Kelsey Borch was going to print and distribute at protests but that project got cancelled because of COVID-19.

“Nothing”

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This is a four-page, full-color comic, published here for the first time! I drew it from a script by Mark Peters. Mark Peters is a humorist and comic book writer from Chicago. He is @wordlust on Twitter and the author of Bullshit: A Lexicon.

Urscape #1

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Urscape #1 is a psychedelic, enigmatic journey through 20 pages of textural, intricate drawings at the speed of one panel per page, self-published in 2019.

Skew

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I serialized my second graphic novel on the Study Group Comic Books site from 2014 to 2018.

Skew continues the psychedelic adventures of the Miizzzard – The Miizzzard has taken a break from battling space sorcerers to assist the Space Yetis. But the finale of a years-long ritual goes awry when the Miizzz is chomped up by a hypermorph. Will the Miizzz be able to save the Space Yeti grove?

Tales from the Hyperverse

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Tales from the Hyperverse is a collection of short, brightly colored comics drawn from 2009 to 2017, published by Retrofit / Big Planet Comics.

Sphere Fear

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Sphere Fear is a two-color, risograph-printed minicomic published by Yeah Dude Comics in 2015. It's an SF poetry comic.

Vortex

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Vortex is my first graphic novel, published by Sparkplug Books via a Kickstarter campaign in 2014, and originally drawn from June 2011 to August 2013.

“Drone”

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I drew this comic for Future Shock #5, an astro pysch SF anthology edited by Josh Burggraf. You can order this issue from Birdcage Bottom Books.

Tranz #2

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I self-published this short comic so I'd have something new when I tabled at TCAF in 2013. It's a thematic sequel to Tranz #1 from 2009. Both comics depict transformations.

“The True Black”

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I drew this comic from a script by Sean T. Collins for Future Shock #4, an astro pysch SF anthology edited by Josh Burggraf. You can order this issue from Birdcage Bottom Books.

“Fuel Quest”

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In this eight-page, seven-color comic on the Study Group Comic Books site, the Floating Crystal Witch hoards magical power on an alien world of rhino toads ruled by a spider queen.

This comic was published in Tales from the Hyperverse.

“The Miizzzard of the Year One Million ATTACKS the Floating Crystal Witch”

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I drew this comic for Future Shock #3, an astro pysch SF anthology edited by Josh Burggraf. This issue is out of print.

“The Miizzzard ATTACKS the Munchies”

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I drew this comic for Digestate, a food-and-eating themed anthology edited by JT Yost and published by Birdcage Bottom Books.

“Hawk”

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I drew this comic for Future Shock #1. This issue is out of print.

Moon Queen

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I started this comic in November 2011 for the first session of Frank Santoro's Comics Correspondence Course and finished it in February 2012.

Math Fiction Squared

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I originally drew this comic for Math Fiction Squared. It was a sequel to Math Fiction that was never published. The original pages were in red/blue anaglyph 3d but I recolored them for a web version in 2014.

“Glade and Mark in: Rocky Mountain Chomp”

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I drew this comic for the ceremony program for Glade and I's wedding in January 2011, and then I colored it and posted it online by itself in May 2011.

“Assault on Yurg”

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This comic was originally published as red/blue anaglyph 3D as one of four four-page comics in Math Fiction, alongside Pat Aulisio, Ian Harker, and Josh Burggraf. Math Fiction was published by Yeah Dude comics in December 2010. I colored this version of the comic in April 2011.

This comic was published in Tales from the Hyperverse.

“Summoning”

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I drew this short comic for an issue of the comics-and-poetry mag Catch Up before I was comics editor. It stars the Miizzzard and my friends Dr Chuch and Jak Cardini.

Shaman Thunder

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Josh Burggraf and I collaborated on this twelve-page comic. We brainstormed the plot, divided it up into a page-by-page outline, and then drew alternating pages. Then, we decided to reorder the first four pages so that it's two pages of me and then two pages of Josh. We like to be confusing. Shaman Thunder was originally published as a minicomic by the Gold County Paper Mill.

ATTACKS Comics

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These are the first few ATTACKS comics I drew that didn't end up in my anthology Tales from the Hyperverse.

Froghead Hangover

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I made this 12-page zine so that I'd have something to hand out to people at MoCCA 2009. It's based on a true story from when I was living by myself in Austin, TX.

Tranz #1

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Inspired in part by Yuichi Yokoyama's inhuman, action-focused comics, I drew a series of short, one- to three-page strips focused on one transformative action throughout 2009.