Cropped Will Cardini artwork

July 10, 2025

Lumpen Comics #143 Release Party at 100 Million

Filed under: Release Parties — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 10:03 am

On Saturday July 19th from 6-8pm, 100 Million, a new art space in KC, will host a release party for Lumpen Comics Issue #143, an all-comics magazine that I co-edited and contributed to!


Front cover by Ben Marcus. Photo taken from the Lumpen mag IG.

100 Million is in my home neighb of Waldo, in an alley between 222 and 332 W. 75th St., Kansas City, MO. Here are two photos I took of the approach:

Photo of an alley with a brick wall on the left and blue sky with a few clouds above. There's a wooden staircase towards the end.

Photo of a wooden staircase leading to a glass door in a brick alley. The door says 100 million in loopy red numbers.

Here’s the back cover of Lumpen Comics Issue #143, which shows all the contributors:


Back cover also by Ben Marcus. Photo again stolen from the Lumpen mag IG.

Ed Lumpen has been publishing Lumpen magazine out of Chicago since 1991. Ed saw Read the Room, the show Tim Brown, Thayer N G Bray, Jason Lips, and I co-curated at Charlotte Street Foundation last year, and invited us to collaborate with him and Joe Tallarico on editing this all-comics issue of Lumpen that brings together KC and Chicago cartoonists.