Cropped Will Cardini artwork

November 6, 2025

Meta Update and Fold at 100 Million in KC!

Filed under: Admin,Art Shows — Tags: — Will Cardini @ 10:49 pm

Even though I’m not a prolific poster anywhere, y’all may have noticed that I’ve been extra quiet on social media and that this blog has been blinking in and out of existence.

It’s funny how much influence this has had on my posting and scrolling, but I had a routine where I would check out and manage Instagram once a week when I took my kid to one of their activities; when they decided they wanted to quit doing it, I stopped looking at IG on a regular basis. Guess I gotta find a new time slot… but it’s hard to find the motivation when social media feels like a bot-infested hellscape.

If you tried to visit this blog in September or October, you may have had difficulty accessing it because I got hacked!! It’s all fixed now, but damn that really took a lot of time for me to resolve and I’m sure it dried up whatever residue of search result juice I had left. This post explaining the ending of the Wheel of Time (Warning: with full spoilers!) has remained my most popular post since I published it over 12 years ago. Maybe this was all in my head, but when I saw someone asking about the WoT ending on Reddit, I felt like my juice was all gone and I had to get my site back up ASAP.

All this meta commentary is to explain why I’ve been remiss in promoting the art book and zine library Fold, which includes my mini-comic Urscape #1, as it travels around the Midwest. This month, it’s in my hometown, Kansas City, at the 100 Million art space, where we had our Lumpen release party back in July!

100 Mill is hosting events for the next three Saturdays, Nov 8th and 15th from 1-3pm, and Nov 22nd from 3-5pm, for both Fold and their exhibition Reading Room, which is a temporary library created by over 20 local and regional artists. Come by, relax on the artist-designed furniture, and flip through the publications!

Flyer for November events at 100 Million
The time for the closing on Nov 22nd has changed, it’s 3-5pm!

As a reminder, 100 Million art space is in an alley between 222 and 332 W. 75th St., Kansas City, MO.

December 21, 2017

My Commitment to this Blog

Filed under: Admin — Will Cardini @ 8:58 am

I’ve been blogging at one incarnation of this site or another for over ten years (here’s my first post from May 7th, 2007, which was originally posted on a hypercastle blogspot but has since been migrated to this URL). I love having my own server space and my own site that I control. Even though massive, corporate-controlled social media sites like Facebook and Twitter make personal blogs like this less popular and less relevant, I’m going to stubbornly keep infrequently posting here.

I’ve neglected this blog. I lost my archives page with a link to all my tags and categories in a template update. I deleted a big category that stranded hundreds of posts in an uncategorized limbo. I struggle to find time to post here in between my day job, dad life, chilling with Glade, and studio time. But now I’ve added a new menu in the top right to try and make it easier to find content here and I’m slowly going through all my old posts and updating their categories and tags.

In some ways, this blog is my biggest, longest sustained artistic practice. I hope that y’all enjoy it.

October 7, 2014

Thanks Y’all!

Filed under: Admin — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 10:34 pm

Wow, I’m so happy that the Sparkplug Books Kickstarter was funded with a little extra to pay the videographer and t-shirt designer and get Yumi Sakugawa’s mini printed. Thanks so much for all your support!!! We couldn’t have done it without y’all’s likes, shares, faves, boops, retweets, and most of all, pledges.

I’m getting emotional preparing Vortex for the printer. I’ve been tinkering with it off and on since June 2011. It feels bittersweet to close the files for the final time and move the project to my archive folder…

Drawing comics in my studio is such a solitary activity, I can forget that there are so many of y’all out there reading and enjoying <3<3<3 Your support means so much to me, thanks again!

May 1, 2014

Hyperbroadcasts: New Comics, Upcoming Events, Book Recommendations, and Reviews

Filed under: Admin,Events,Press — Will Cardini @ 11:43 am

I’ve got some updates for y’all:

September 27, 2013

Vortex #2 Sold Out; One Vortex #1-4 Combo Pack Left

Filed under: Admin,Print Comics — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 10:10 am

I realized yesterday that I only have one copy of Vortex #2 left in my personal inventory. So I’m not selling any more individual copies of Vortex #2 and I only have one Vortex #1-4 combo pack left. The combo pack is four dollars cheaper than ordering each issue individually. You can order it in my store.

Vortex 2

Vortex #2 is still available through other stores and distros: Farewell Books in Austin, Birdcage Bottom Books, Quimby’s, Sparkplug, Telegraph Gallery, Wow Cool, and some other places I’m probably forgetting (sorry I’m sleep deprived).

February 5, 2013

Reblog Contest Continues; Miizzzard Pixel Art Animation

Filed under: Admin,Artwork — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 11:08 am

Thanks to everyone who has participated in my Tumblr reblog contest so far! You can still enter your handle in the hat until Friday, February 8th at midnight CST. Just reblog this Tumblr post advertising the four digital prints I’ve added to my store to raise money to get to my table at TCAF. I will randomly select one person and mail them a 6×9″ ink drawing of the Miizzzard on smooth watercolor paper.

I don’t know about y’all, but my muse is fickle. Whenever I have work to do (right now, Fuel Quest, Vortex #4, and some freelance web development projects), I always get super stoked by the idea of a side project that’ll just derail me. Lately I’ve been reading about pixel art and game development, dreaming about making some small adventure games set in the Hyperverse. I’m contemplating how to best harness this excitement while still keeping my momentum on my current projects going. I think I might institute something similar to Google’s 20% time – give myself a couple of hours each week to work on whatever I want while reserving the remainder of my studio time for my main projects. How do y’all balance having fun with new projects and previous commitments?

The reason I’m bringing this up is because I spent far too much time this past weekend making a small pixel art animation of the Miizzzard walking:

Miizzzard walking pixel art animation

I followed Derek Yu’s very helpful tutorial on making sprites. I liked how this let me scratch my desire to make a GIF without all the effort of more traditional animation. Also I get to indulge the perfectionist part of my brain that agonizes over the placement of every pixel.

February 1, 2013

Shipping Increase; Reblog Contest

Filed under: Admin — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 2:05 pm

Hi y’all, I’m going to start with a bit of bad news – because of the US postage increase, which mainly affects international orders, I had to raise the international shipping cost on everything in my store on this site.

But I do have some good news for y’all – I’m doing a giveaway! Reblog this Tumblr post advertising the prints I’ve recently added to my store anytime between now and Friday, February 8th at midnight central US time, and I’ll select one person who gets a free 6×9″ ink drawing of the Miizzzard on smooth watercolor paper.

William Cardini Digital Prints Composite
If there’s an artwork or single comics page that you’d like to see me offer as a digital print, let me know.

I’m going more commercial than I usually do to try and raise money to get to my table at TCAF.

January 1, 2013

Welcome to 2013!

Filed under: Admin,Life,Sketchbook Pages — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 6:57 pm

Let’s raise our crystal skull goblets to 2013 and the coming hyper-folk-sci-fi utopia! I hope that everyone had a happy new year’s.

William Cardini New Year Sketch
This is my first sketchbook page finished in 2013. I began it while chilling over the holidays and finished it today.

2012 was a year of upheaval, change, and growth.

Personally, Glade and I made some big choices. In the spring, we decided that we’re going to stay in Austin for the foreseeable future. In the summer, Glade opened Paper Party in Domy Books Austin and was able to move to part time at her day job in the fall. Domy Books Austin is now closing but Glade’s going to move Paper Party to a new spot at 1223 Rosewood. I’m bummed that Domy is going to be gone. Every time I went in there Russell was so enthusiastic about comics and would show me all the great new stuff that came in. He’s also been a great supporter and promoter of my comics. But I’m glad that Travis Kent and Mikaylah Bowman are carrying the torch with Farewell Books in the same spot.

2012 was a big year for my comics career:

Not everything was a triumph, however. I applied to the final round of the Xeric grant and didn’t get it. I’m still putting more money into my comics than I’m earning. I have several self-publishing projects that are stalled out.

I’m looking forward to experiencing what 2013 brings. My primary goal is to finish Vortex, put out the rest of it in minicomics, and explore the options for publishing a collected edition.

November 23, 2012

Tumblr Update

Filed under: Admin — Tags: — Will Cardini @ 4:18 pm

I intend for this site to be my primary home on the internet, but there’s no denying that there’s a powerful community feeling on Tumblr these days. Therefore, to make it easier for y’all to follow me there, I’ve consolidated my two personal Tumblrs into one: http://hypercastle.tumblr.com.

William Cardini Tumblr

I’ll post sketches, drawings, and images that inspire me on that Tumblr. I’ll continue to post drawings and pages from cartoonists that I dig on the GCPM Tumblr that I maintain with my buddy Josh Burggraf.

July 27, 2012

Birthday

Filed under: Admin — Will Cardini @ 7:57 am

My birthday was this past Sunday! I’m inching closer to the big three-oh. I’m actually looking forward to putting my twenties behind me – I’ve always wanted to be a cranky old man.


Face paint by Melinda Tracy Boyce; photo by Aaron Whitaker.

Glade got me this awesome customized messenger bag:

She did the Jim Woodring embroidery based on Sublime Stitching designs (I think the site is sold out).