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Mark P. Hensel is an artist and writer who specializes in a folk-sci-fi aesthetic. His alter ego, William Cardini, draws comics.

Hensel's work includes digital prints, installations, animations, and drawings.

In December of 2008, he had a solo show called Cryptostructures of the Urscape at MASS Gallery in Austin.

He has exhibited in group shows in Austin and elsewhere, including Hacking Utopia(s) at Current Space in Baltimore and No More Worlds at Concertina Gallery in Chicago.

As a participant in Land Arts of the American West, he has shown at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe and at the University of New Mexico Art Museum in Albuquerque.

As a member of Totally Wreck, he participated in the shows Future Prologues: The Compression of Post-Pop Narratives into Non-Space and Pre-Time at the Creative Research Lab in Austin and Totally Berlin at the Future Gallery in Berlin.

Cardini self-publishes his minicomics as part of the Gold County Paper Mill. The Mill has appeared at STAPLE!, the independent media expo, for the past two years and will table there this year.

His comics have been reviewed by Tom Spurgeon, XyphaP, Rob Clough, Jog, and Kevin Bramer.

Some of his comics can be purchased at Domy Books in Austin and Houston, Atomic Books in Baltimore, Desert Island in Brooklyn, and Quimby's in Chicago.

His shorter comics have been published in Candy & Cigarettes #2, Smoke Signal #1, a couple issues of Taffy Hips, and online at hahaclever.com.

Both Hensel and Cardini operate out of Boongoo Studio alongside Glade Whitworth in Austin. All three of them will be participating in the East Austin Studio Tour this year.