Cropped Will Cardini artwork

June 3rd, 2022

2021 in Review

Filed under: Recaps — William Cardini @ 4:49 am

We’re almost halfway through 2022, but it’s not too late to tell y’all about what I was up to in 2021!

In July, I self-published the first installment of my latest graphic novel, Reluctant Oracle #1.

A Stack of Reluctant Oracle 1 minicomics

It dropped on the Strangers Fanzine distro, which was one of my most successful releases, and now it’s available via my Hypercastle Big Cartel. I’ve also moved all my other in-print comics there.

Reluctant Oracle #1 got a couple positive reviews on Ryan C.’s Four Color Apocalypse and Optical Sloth.

Later that same month, I had some pixel and paper artworks in the 2021 Kansas City H&R Block Artspace Flatfile + Digitalfile show.

Here’s a GIF of the Miizzzard loading:

A GIF of the Miizzzard getting progressively larger and less pixelated

Here’s an ink drawing, “Meeting of the Miizzz Minds”:

2022 Meeting of the Miizzz Minds india ink drawing

For the rest of my year, I worked on some illustrations for an indie tabletop game company, and I started Reluctant Oracle #2. The game company is Moon Beast Games; I’ll have more to say about them in my 2022 recap, and when they launch the Kickstarter for a tabletop campaign that includes my illustrations. Here’s a Reluctant Oracle #2 page I finished in December 2021 that I’m particularly proud of:

Preview of Reluctant Oracle 2

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