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.

July 10, 2025

Lumpen Comics #143 Release Party at 100 Million

Filed under: Release Parties — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 10:03 am

On Saturday July 19th from 6-8pm, 100 Million, a new art space in KC, will host a release party for Lumpen Comics Issue #143, an all-comics magazine that I co-edited and contributed to!


Front cover by Ben Marcus. Photo taken from the Lumpen mag IG.

100 Million is in my home neighb of Waldo, in an alley between 222 and 332 W. 75th St., Kansas City, MO. Here are two photos I took of the approach:

Photo of an alley with a brick wall on the left and blue sky with a few clouds above. There's a wooden staircase towards the end.

Photo of a wooden staircase leading to a glass door in a brick alley. The door says 100 million in loopy red numbers.

Here’s the back cover of Lumpen Comics Issue #143, which shows all the contributors:


Back cover also by Ben Marcus. Photo again stolen from the Lumpen mag IG.

Ed Lumpen has been publishing Lumpen magazine out of Chicago since 1991. Ed saw Read the Room, the show Tim Brown, Thayer N G Bray, Jason Lips, and I co-curated at Charlotte Street Foundation last year, and invited us to collaborate with him and Joe Tallarico on editing this all-comics issue of Lumpen that brings together KC and Chicago cartoonists.