Cropped Will Cardini artwork

November 10, 2009

Carl Sagan

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 6:06 am

Yesterday would have been Carl Sagan’s 75th birthday. The man was a champion of secular humanism, space exploration, exobiology, and many other realms of science.


via the rustbelt radical.

At his most lyrical, Sagan painted pictures of the strange alien beings that could inhabit our solar system in order to broaden our search for other forms of life, such as these sinkers, floaters, and hunters on Jupiter:


via wandering space.

For Sagan’s sake, I hope that the upcoming expeditions to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn find some traces of life within their icy shells.

At times, Sagan could get quite spiritual, describing the search for extraterrestial life as the quest for the cosmic fugue.


via cosmos times cosmology.

November 6, 2009

Monster Show 4

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , , , — Will Cardini @ 10:14 am

Domy Books has posted pics from the Monster Show 4 in Austin and Houston on their flickr, go check it out, there’s a ton of great art.

Here’s my contribution to the Austin show:

November 3, 2009

Jason Villegas at the CAMH

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , , , — Will Cardini @ 1:30 pm

My good friend and collaborator Jak Cardini just went to the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston and saw the recently ended show by Jason Villegas and the still continuing Matthew Day Jackson show.

Jak’s already posted about Jackson, who’s totally folk sci fi, and I thought I’d throw up some images of Villegas’ work:

You can find out more about Villegas on his website.

October 30, 2009

Monster Show 4 Opens Halloween at Domy Books in Austin and Houston

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Will Cardini @ 10:23 am

Hey y’all, Monster Show 4 opens this Saturday (Halloween!) from 7-9pm at Domy’s Houston and Austin locations, come check it out! There’ll be many, many fabulous and terrifying monster drawz by tons of talented creators, including the lovely Glade Whitworth.

Here’s the flyer, image drawn by Travis Millard:

Here you can get an all-in-one shot of my monster draws in process and a fraction of my new studio set up:

I’ve had this drawing table since the mid-90s, so please forgive the stickers. If you come to our house (Boongoo Studio) during this year’s East Austin Studio Tour, you’ll be able to see my whole setup!

October 27, 2009

Pierre Alechinsky

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 7:16 am

Plate I from the portfolio Vulcanologies, 1970:

Plate III:

Plate IV:

via MOMA.

Check out these awesome comics masquerading as fine art that my friend Corinna showed me! The Belgium-born Alechinsky was a member of COBRA.

October 23, 2009

Earth and Jupiter Alignment as Viewed from Mars

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , , , , , — Will Cardini @ 9:01 am

In this photograph from Mars, taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor on May 22nd, 2003, you can see Earth, the Moon, Jupiter, and several Jovian moons.

Here it is:

From gizmodo via dvice and posthuman blues.

October 22, 2009

New ATTACKS Comic Published on hahacleverdotcom

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: , , , — Will Cardini @ 9:07 am

My newest ATTACKS comic, The Floating Crystal Witch ATTACKS the Miizzzard of the Year 2978, is up at Reynard Seifert’s site for comics, poetry, and short stories, hahacleverdotcom.

Reynard puts a bunch of great shit up there every other Wednesday, y’all should keep on top of it.

Here’s a preview of my comic:

I was trying to reproduce the effect of a three-color screenprint image on the computer.

October 20, 2009

Comics Now Available at Ultra Pop! in Louisville, KY

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: , , — Will Cardini @ 2:20 pm

The illustrious Jak Cardini has just dropped off some Gold County Paper Mill comics at Ultra Pop! in Louisville Kentucky, located at 1414 Bardstown Road.

Now Louisvillains can check out Hyperbox #1-3 and Masks, written and drawn by yours truly, and Impossible Objects #1 with text by Jak Cardini and drawings by myself. Ultra Pop! is an awesome store and I’m glad that we’re in there. When I went there with Jak this past summer I got several issues of Epic Illustrated, a Howard Chaykin graphic novel, some Moebius alubms, and a dope-ass Mnwka shirt. If you’re in the area, definitely stop by there!

Also, if you haven’t already, be sure to become a fan of The Gold County Paper Mill on Facebook.

October 16, 2009

Funky Junction Oracles, New Work by Dylan Reece at MASS Gallery in Austin

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , , , — Will Cardini @ 7:40 am

My good friend Dylan’s solo show, Funky Junction Oracles, opens this Saturday (Oct 17th) at MASS Gallery here in Austin from 10pm to 12am. If you’re in the area, be sure to check this show out. It’ll be open until Nov 7th. Here’s an excerpt from the press release:

On view from October 17th to November 7th, Funky Junction Oracles employs a variety of media — prints, photography, painting, animated GIFs, and sculpture — to illustrate Reece’s attempt to fix meaning in a world characterized by ever increasing flows of information and rapid change in the complexity of social systems. Drawing from a range of sources that include the pop-metaphysics of the ’70s, the classical art of Greece and Rome, the internet, vintage nature books, rave culture, and Modernism in art, the imagery for much of the work is unified by an underlying sense of idealism and progress gone awry.

I’m super stoked about this show. Here are some choice pieces of Dylan’s old work from his excellent blog:

October 14, 2009

Research for the Monster Show 4

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , , , , , , , — Will Cardini @ 9:18 pm

Well well well. Another week has gone by and I’ve failed to post to my blog on Tuesday. Faithful audience, I apologize – Glade and I still haven’t settled in from our big move, and I’ve been working on drawings for the upcoming Monster Show 4 at Domy Books in Houston and Austin, which opens Halloween nite. Actually, I haven’t been working on the drawings so much as I’ve been playing Zelda for research purposes.

Here’s some original Zelda concept art by Katsuya Terada: