Cropped Will Cardini artwork

March 16th, 2018

Recent Reviews

Filed under: Press — Tags: , , , , — William Cardini @ 10:33 am

Two of my comics were reviewed in January!

First, my latest comic Tales from the Hyperverse entered the Reviewniverse in episode #244 of the SILENCE! podcast by the Mindless Ones out of the UK, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die.

SILENCE! podcast header by James Stokoe
SILENCE! podcast header by the inimitable James Stokoe.

A quote I jotted down from the Ones about TftHV is, “The color is amazing in this comic.” Also they mistakenly attribute Prism Stalker to me for a sec before realizing their error – Prism Stalker is by Sloane Leong. The first issue of that comic came out last week and it’s a psychedelic, intriguing beginning to a mind-bending SF epic! I’m looking forward to seeing where Leong takes us. Lots of other meaty stuff in that episode, you can give it a listen here.

Second, Sphere Fear AKA Sphere Hear due to my illegible fonts was reviewed on the venerable minicomics review site Optical Sloth. Here’s a quote:

I love the fact that William has been living in this Hypercastle world for roughly a decade now, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Or of making his work more “commercial,” although I have no idea what that would look like in this universe.

Read the whole review here.

One great thing about Optical Sloth is its deep archive. Bramer has been reviewing comics for years and years – he reviewed one of my first minicomics in 2009. Another great thing is that he scans each comic for his review. I hope he doesn’t mind that I’m posting his scans of Sphere Fear so y’all can see the great risograph printing by Issue Press:

Sphere Fear cover scan
Scanned by Kevin Bramer.

Sphere Fear interior scan
Scanned by Kevin Bramer.

Finally, if you’ve read my comics, please consider giving them a review at my author page on Goodreads.

Abstract Test on the Abstract Comics Blog

Filed under: Comics,Web Comics — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 9:50 am

Last year I was experimenting with an abstract comic. It was one panel per page and I started each page with a circle in the same spot.

Here’s the first page:

Abstract Test page 1

Mike Getsiv posted the first seven pages on the Abstract Comics blog last October. I’m not sure what I’ll do with it in the future but I might keep adding to it.