Cropped Will Cardini artwork

November 14, 2012

BCGF 2012 Recap

Filed under: Recaps — Tags: , , , — Will Cardini @ 12:19 am

Thanks to everyone who came by the GCPM table and traded for or bought an issue of Vortex.


Me and Josh Burggraf. I look like a madman.

BCGF was amazing (and hot and crowded and intense).

Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest
I keep showing people this picture from the BCGF tumblr to give them an idea of how crowded BCGF was. You can see me staring directly into your soul through the camera.

It was my first time tabling at an east coast comics festival so I got to meet a lot of people IRL that I’ve only known online, which was fantastic. I’m really feeling the comics love right now. It’ll be a while before I can travel to another con so it’s good that BCGF was so great.

William Cardini Silver Surfer and Josh Burggraf Batman fan art
One really awesome moment was when this dude Barney came up to me and Josh and asked us to draw some sketches of superheroes for him. Barney’s a big fan of Rub the Blood, if you look at his Twitter he asked other people to do fan art.

You can see Josh’s perspective of our weekend on our GCPM tumblr. I’ll put Vortex #3 in my store soon.

November 9, 2012

GCPM will Debut Vortex #3, Future Shock #2, and Future Shock #3 this Weekend at BCGF

Filed under: Events,Print Comics — Tags: , , , — Will Cardini @ 7:17 am

This Saturday, November 10th, Josh Burggraf and I will be tabling at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, representing the Gold County Paper Mill. We’ll be at Table U32:

The GCPM's table assignment at BCGF
BCGF is from 12-7pm at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 275 North 8th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

I’m debuting Vortex #3:

Vortex #3 cover
Vortex #3 continues the adventures of the Miizzzard on the planet of the shape-shifting aliens who call themselves the Vortex.

Vortex #3 center spread
In Vortex #2, the Miizzz entered the communal dreamscape of the ultra-violent Vortex to try and free their minds from outside control. Now the Miizzz must battle through layer after layer of berserk nightmares.

Josh is doing a simultaneous release of #2 and #3 of the SF anthology that he edits, Future Shock:

Future Shock #2 and #3
Future Shock #2 contributor list: Max Bode, Danica Dora, Josh Bayer, Pat Aulisio, Ryan Dirks, Steve Fuentes, Victor Kerlow, and Josh. Future Shock #3 contributor list: Alex Degen, Sungyoon Choi, Det Roc Boi, Vincent Giard, Anuj Shrestha, Victor, Josh, and me.

Here’s a shot of two pages from my six-page contribution to FS#3:

William Cardini pages in Future Shock #3
My story is called “The Miizzzard of the Year One Million ATTACKS the Floating Crystal Witch.”

We’ll also have Vortex #1, Vortex #2, Kid Space Heater #1, Kid Space Heater #2, Future Shock #1, and Digestate (we both have stories in Digestate and we’re distributed by its publisher, Birdcage Bottom Books). Follow our tumblr for more preview images and updates.

November 2, 2012

Catch Up #3 Pre-Sale and Release Party

Filed under: Events,Print Comics — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 10:22 am

Hey y’all, sorry about the silence this week. I’ve been deep in it working to finish up Vortex #3 so that it’ll be ready to debut at Josh and I’s GCPM table at BCGF.

Today though I’m excited to announce that Catch Up #3 is available! Catch Up is a literature and comics journal that the Gold County Paper Mill puts out. I’m a comics editor alongside Josh Burggraf and PB Kain. We’ve got a ton of great folks in #3, you can see a full list and order a copy on our site.

If you’re in Louisville, there’s a release party tonight at 7pm. Here’s a link to the Facebook event. There’ll be poetry readings, an older poetry/comics collaboration I did with Jak Cardini called Impossible Objects, and a few copies of Vortex #1 and #2 if USPS delivers it on time.

October 26, 2012

Vortex #3 is Drawn

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: , , — Will Cardini @ 7:52 am

I finished drawing Vortex #3 this past week! It’s not quite done yet (I’ve still got post-production to do – patterns, tweaking, and corrections) but I feel good about getting this far. Here’s a preview of a double-page spread:

Second Vortex 3 Double-Page Spread

I’ve drawn 96 pages of Vortex so far. I think I can wrap the whole thing up in a fourth issue but there may be a fifth one also. But most likely no more than that! I’ll have details about Vortex #3’s con debut and release party soon.

October 17, 2012

APE 2012 Recap

Filed under: Events,Print Comics — Tags: , , — Will Cardini @ 9:59 pm

Thanks to everyone who came by our table during APE 2012!

Table 807 at APE
Table #807 at APE 2012. Left to right it’s me, Melinda Tracy Boyce, and Aaron Whitaker.

Although I’ve gone to MoCCA a couple of times as an attendee, this was my first time tabling at a big city con. Although I covered my table cost, I was surprised I didn’t make as much as I do in Austin at Staple! That might be because I’m a known quantity in my hometown. Regardless, traveling to one of the most expensive cities in America isn’t a good way to make some cash in the first place. Overall I had a blast and got to see friends and meet a lot of cartoonists I’ve only known online (as well as kewl new people). San Francisco is always a mystical, fog-shrouded adventure and I hope to be back for another APE!

October 10, 2012

I’ll be at APE 2012

Filed under: Events,Print Comics — Tags: , , , — Will Cardini @ 9:45 pm

I’m super stoked to let y’all know that I’m going to be at the Alternative Press Expo this weekend (October 13th and 14th) in San Francisco!

APE 2012 Flyer

I’ll be representing the Gold County Paper Mill at Table #807, which I’m sharing with the fantastic cartoonists Aaron Whitaker and Melinda Tracy Boyce. Here’s a picture of all four of us with my wife, Glade:

Group photo
Left to right: me, Aaron, Melinda, and Glade

I’ll have Vortex #1, Vortex #2, Future Shock #1, and Kid Space Heater #2. If I bring up any extra older stuff I’ll bring that also.

October 5, 2012

“Corruption ATTACKS the Miizzzard” an Abstract Comic

Filed under: Web Comics — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 7:36 am

Previewing my tif files in Google Drive does interesting things to them. Here are corrupted versions of all six pages of my latest comic:

I think its works as an abstract comic. Props to Josh Burggraf for pointing this out to me.

October 2, 2012

“The Miizzzard of the Year One Million ATTACKS the Moon Base of the Floating Crystal Witch” Preview Page

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: , , , — Will Cardini @ 7:18 am

I finally finished the six-page full-color comic that I’ve been working on and blogging about for the past few weeks. It’s going to be in the third issue of Future Shock, a sf anthology edited by Josh Burggraf.

Here’s the first page as a preview:

The Miizzzard of the Year One Million ATTACKS the Moon Base of the Floating Crystal Witch Page 1

I’m pretty proud of this one, I put a lot of work into it. By the way, if you’ve wanted to buy the first issue of Future Shock or other comics put out by Josh that I’ve mentioned, they’re now available through the Birdcage Bottom Books distro.

September 28, 2012

Self-Portrait

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: — Will Cardini @ 7:22 am

Here’s a large version of my self-portrait for the Digestate contributing artists section of the revamped Birdcage Bottom Books site:

William Cardini self-portrait

There were a couple years in high school when almost every piece of art I made was a self-portrait.

September 25, 2012

More “The Miizzzard of the Year One Million ATTACKS the Moon Base of the Floating Crystal Witch” Process Shots

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: — Will Cardini @ 7:13 am

I’m still working on a six-page comic for Future Shock #2 so I thought I’d show y’all more screenshots of my process:


In this screenshot I’m selecting a fill so that all of the detail lines I draw are contained in it even if I draw right to the edge. This saves me a lot of time erasing the lines that extend past the edge later. I should’ve done this from the beginning!


Scribbling out all of these stars takes a while but hopefully the effect will be worth it.