Cropped Will Cardini artwork

August 23rd, 2016

Vortex is in the August Previews

Filed under: Press,Print Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 10:37 pm

I’m very excited to tell y’all that Vortex is on Page 269 of Previews, the Diamond comics catalogue! It’ll be on shelves in fine comic book stores across the US on October 26th September 28th.

If you’d like a copy, ask your local comic book store to order it for you before September 2nd.

Order code AUG161125.

Alternative Comics page of the August Previews

You may have noticed that these two pages are the Alternative Comics section of Previews. After Virginia Paine decided to close Sparkplug Books, Marc Arsenault of Alternative Comics inherited most of Sparkplug’s backstock. I’m grateful to Virginia for taking a chance on Vortex and all the work she did to get the Kickstarter funded and the book printed and distributed. Running a publisher as a third job is hard work and I’m glad that she’s going to be able to focus on her own awesome comics, like The WHYs, an epic webcomic about queer superpowered teens.

The reviewer Rob Clough of High-Low said goodbye to Sparkplug in a review round-up that includes Vortex.

April 26th, 2016

Skew Part 3 Has Ended; I’m Working on Part 4

Filed under: Web Comics — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 10:46 am

All of Skew Part 3 is now up on Study Group. Here are four of my favorite pages:

Skew Page 130

Skew Page 141

Skew Page 153

Skew Page 165

I’m working on Part 4. I’m about 30 pages in. Here’s a potential cover:

Skew Part 4 Cover

December 11th, 2015

Skew Part 3 on Study Group

Filed under: Web Comics — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 10:34 am

Skew Part 3 has debuted on Study Group.

Skew Part 3 cover
Here’s the cover for Part 3.

We’ll post new pages every Tuesday.

Skew Page 122
Here’s Page 122.

The first ten pages are already up.

Here’s what the characters are doing at the beginning of Part 3: The Miizzzard, still trapped in the digestive system of a hypermollusc, has subdivided to isolate and destroy an invasive microdrone, planted by an unknown enemy. Meanwhile a Space Yeti named Bya is traveling to the find the Miizzz and a slime-meteor-mech gleefully stomps across the planet.

November 3rd, 2015

Future Shock Zero and Ink Brick 4 Debut at CAB

Filed under: Events,Print Comics — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 10:23 am

I have comics in two comics collections that will debut at Comic Arts Brooklyn this weekend (Nov 7th): Future Shock 0 and Ink Brick 4. If you can’t make it to CAB, both are also available for preorder.

Future Shock 0 is a full-color astro-psych SF anthology edited by Josh Burggraf and published by Retrofit Comics.

Future Shock Zero cover by Jordan Speer
Cover by Jordan Speer.

My six-page comic is called “Ax the Ship.” You can preorder it here.

Ink Brick 4 is a full-color journal of comics poetry run by Alexander Rothman, Paul K. Tunis, and Alexey Sokolin.

Ink Brick 4 cover by Matt Huynh
Cover illustration by Matt Huynh and design by Alexey Sokolin.

My four-page contribution is called “Mud Mind.” You can preorder it here.

October 30th, 2015

“Factory” for Halloween Haunting 3 on Study Group

Filed under: Web Comics — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 9:59 am

Hi y’all,

I’m participating again in Study Group Comics’s annual Halloween Haunting feature (see my comic for last year’s here). This year I did a longer comic in the style of Skew (one-panel-per-page, seven-color comics).

Cardini Factory Title Page

My comic is called “Factory” and will be posted on the actual holiday, Saturday 10/31. Check out this post on the Study Group site for more info and previews of other spooky comics!

July 14th, 2015

“Rock Troll” in RhiZome #3

Filed under: Press,Print Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 10:55 am

I’m the token American in the third issue of the British SF anthology series RhiZome, edited by Rob Jackson and Kyle Baddeley-Read. My comic, “Rock Troll,” is ten pages long. Here’s the first page:

Rock Troll Page 1

RhiZome #3 was reviewed by Richard Bruton on the Forbidden Planet blog. He liked “Rock Troll.” Here’s a quote:

A thing of some shape meets a rock. And the rock turns nasty. And then other stuff. It’s hardly War & Peace but by heck, it’s great. Maybe it’s the visual simplicity of it all, but whatever it was, it’s great.

Buy it from the shop link on Rob Jackson’s website. It’s £4 plus £2 if you’re outside the UK.

Here’s another page:

Rock Troll Page 4

Kyle Baddeley-Read posted an interview with me on the RhiZome blog. Here’s an excerpt:

From the first three issues of RhiZome, what stories have stood out to you? Why?

My favorite story is “Corporation Pop” by Rob Jackson. The first two installments were in RhiZome #1 and #2. I like how Rob depicts a mundane office life that is spiraling out of control into a paranoid fantasy where nothing seems real. Tyler Stafford’s comic in RhiZome #2 is also amazing, like all of his work. He puts in a lot of little details in his drawings that make his SF worlds grounded. I also dig his character designs.

June 2nd, 2015

Judith

Filed under: Web Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 10:22 am

Judith by William Cardini

February 17th, 2015

End of Skew Part 2

Filed under: Web Comics — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 10:32 am

The end of Skew Part 2 went up on Study Group yesterday.

Skew Page 114
Skew Page 114, the last page of Part 2.

Part 3 won’t start until this summer.

January 27th, 2015

Skew Part 2 Ending Soon; Part 3 Starts in a Few Months

Filed under: Web Comics — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 10:26 am

More Skew pages were posted yesterday. Part 2 is almost done – I’ll finish it up in three to four more updates.

Skew Page 95

After that, it’ll be a few months before Skew Part 3 begins. I’ve already got it plotted in my head but I need to finish up the Kickstarter rewards and take care of some other projects before I get back into a weekly Skew schedule.
P.S. Vortex is now available in the Birdcage Bottom Books online shop.

October 1st, 2014

The Hiizzztory of the Miizzzard Part 8: The Miizzzard of the Year One Million ATTACKS the Floating Crystal Witch

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: — William Cardini @ 9:14 am

2 days left in the Sparkplug Books Kickstarter campaign to publish my graphic novel Vortex and Elijah Brubaker’s Reich #12!

I finished this six-page comic exactly two years ago. Josh Burggraf published it in his astro-sf anthology comic Future Shock #3. I was experimenting with the coloring, trying to the style of my comics closer to my acrylic paintings. I also was trying out a genderbent character design for the Miizzzard, who shifts shape and gender throughout millennia.

Click here to see the rest of The Hiizzztory of the Miizzzard.