Comic Fests « Hypercastle Blog

September 4, 2018

KC Zine Con #4, Riso Print Grab Fundraiser, and Rise for Climate in Johnson County

Filed under: Comic Fests,Events,Online — Tags: climate change, KC Zine Con, Oddities Prints — Will Cardini @ 10:50 pm

This Saturday, September 8th, is going to be busy in the Kansas City metro area!

From 9 to 11am, climate activists will march in downtown Overland Park, in conjunction with sister marches nationwide, to demand that local governments will commit to a clean energy future and oppose all new fossil fuel infrastructure. You can see more info and the march route on this Facebook event page.

I won’t be at the march (except in spirit) because I’ll be slinging comics at KC Zine Con #4, from 10am to 6pm at Pierson Auditorium on the UMKC campus. Come find me at Table #88!

I’ll have Tales from the Hyperverse, Vortex, my latest riso prints, a selection of Retrofit comics, and more.

Oddities Prints, my KC-area print shop, will also be at KC Zine Con, selling (among many other things) riso print grab bags to benefit RAICES, the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood! Here’s a mockup of the print I designed for this fundraiser:

If you can’t make it to KCZC#4, you can also order these grab bags online.

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May 29, 2018

CAKE 2018

Filed under: Comic Fests — Tags: CAKE, Risograph — Will Cardini @ 7:38 am

This weekend I’ll be tabling for the first time at the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo AKA CAKE. CAKE is Saturday June 2nd and Sunday June 3rd from 11am to 6pm at the Center on Halsted. I hope to see some of y’all there!

I’ll have my comics Tales from the Hyperverse, Sphere Fear, Drumstick Pit, and Vortex; the climate change poetry comics anthology Warmer, which has one of my comics in it; some Retrofit comics; and these two new risograph prints:

The prints are Rainbow Robot on the left and Diana in Ghost Arrow on the right. I got them printed by a local shop, Oddities Prints.

I’ll be at Table 410A.

If you’re not going to be at CAKE, you can buy my new prints here.

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September 27, 2017

CXC 2017 and Tales from the Hyperverse Unboxing

Filed under: Comic Fests — Tags: Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, Tales from the Hyperverse — Will Cardini @ 6:19 am

I’ll be tabling with Retrofit Comics at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (AKA CXC) this weekend. I’m very excited because it’ll be my first time selling my new comic from Retrofit, Tales from the Hyperverse, and my first time at CXC! CXC is a big event that lasts this whole week, I’ll just be there for the CXC Expo and Marketplace at the downtown branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, which is from 11am to 6pm on Saturday Sept 30th and noon to 5pm on Sunday Oct 1st.

Also, I got some of my contributor copies of Tales from the Hyperverse yesterday and I’m very happy with how they turned out. Here are some photos:

After I get back from CXC, I’ll add Tales from the Hyperverse to my online store so you can order signed copies. In the meantime, you can already order unsigned copies from the Retrofit store.

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September 12, 2017

Tales from the Hyperverse Debuts at SPX 2017

Filed under: Comic Fests,Print Comics — Tags: Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, Retrofit Comics, Small Press Expo, Tales from the Hyperverse, William Cardini — Will Cardini @ 7:02 am

My new comic from Retrofit, Tales from the Hyperverse, debuts this weekend at the Small Press Expo near Washington, DC!

Unfortunately I won’t be there but if you can make it, SPX is a blast. I will be at the next show at which Retrofit is tabling, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.

And if you can’t make it to either show and you missed out on the Kickstarter, you can preorder at the Retrofit site or wait until I get my copies and can offer signed copies on this site.

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August 24, 2017

KC Zine Con #3

Filed under: Comic Fests — Tags: KC Zine Con — Will Cardini @ 8:16 am

This Saturday, August 26th, I’ll be tabling for the second time at the Kansas City Zine Con!

They’ve changed locations this year to the historic El Torreon, 3101 Gillham Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri. The con once again runs from 10am to 6pm and Betty Rae’s Ice Cream, a favorite of my household, will be scooping out delicious treats from their ice cream truck outside!

I was hoping to have Tales from the Hyperverse and Warmer for my table but unfortunately I haven’t gotten my copies yet. So I’ll have Vortex, the Vortex risograph posters printed by Oddities Prints that debuted last year, and a print edition of my minicomic, Drumstick Pit. Study Group Comics previously posted Drumstick Pit online but this is the first time that it’ll descend from the Internet to the paperverse.

I’ll be at Table 102 between the entrance and the Oddities Prints stage.

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