Cropped Will Cardini artwork

May 4th, 2017

One Week Left to Order my New Comic via Kickstarter

Filed under: Crowdfunding Campaigns — Tags: , , , , — William Cardini @ 7:51 am

There’s one week left in the Retrofit Comics Spring 2017 Kickstarter!

I’ve been posting previews every day on my new public Instagram, @williamcardini. Here’s a crop from the colored version of my comic “Ghost Arrow,” which will be one of the short comics collected in Tales from the Hyperverse, one of the six books in the latest Retrofit Kickstarter.

Ghost Arrow crop

You can order just Tales from the Hyperverse for $8, all six books at a discount for $45, or all six books and an original black-and-white 9×12″ ink drawing on watercolor paper from me for $150. I’ll draw you the Miizzzard, the Floating Crystal Witch, or whatever you want. I did this for the Sparkplug Books Fall 2014 Kickstarter, here’s what I drew for people then so you can see some examples of my work:

William Cardini ink drawing
A drawing of the Miizzzard.

William Cardini ink drawing
A drawing when I was told to do whatever I wanted.

William Cardini ink drawing
A portrait drawn from looking at a photograph.

William Cardini ink drawing
A drawing of the Miizzzard vs Kid Space Heater for Josh, the creator of KSH.

August 27th, 2013

Drawing for Sparkplug Books

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 9:15 am

I drew a splash page image for the Sparkplug Books site, check it out:

Sparkplug Books drawing

Sparkplug has Vortex #1-3 in their shop.

March 22nd, 2013

Lizzard Drawings

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 11:28 am

I’ve been messing around with a redesign of the Lizzard lately:

William Cardini Lizzard drawing

March 16th, 2010

Love Is the Foundation of the Cosmos

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 7:02 am

I didn’t finish a page of comics last week, but I did finally finish this drawing:

I made it because a friend of mine asked for art for their wedding. I ended up really liking this image because I’ve been feeling the love of the cosmos lately. I’m probably going to end up turning it into a tshirt or something before too long, so stay tuned!

February 21st, 2010

VDay 2K10 Drawing Closeup

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , , , — William Cardini @ 8:38 pm

Hey y’all, sorry that it’s taken me so long to get a second post done this week!

Per request, I’m posting a close-up shot of the drawing that I did for Glade for Valentine’s Day:

The drawing is watercolor over india ink. It depicts Glade and I defeating a monster with rays emanating from our wedding rings. If this drawing is too big for your computer screen you can see it various sizes on my flickr.

December 6th, 2007

Hypercrystal Beast

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: — William Cardini @ 10:02 pm

October 13th, 2007

The Return of the Miizzzard

Filed under: Art Shows — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 2:46 pm

The Miizzzard has (as some of you may be aware)
been lost in the swamp for several months now.

At 7:11 p.m. on November 7th, 2007, the Miizzzard will make his triumphant return to the A7X! Be there* by 7 p.m. to witness this event, for he will return precisely at 7:11 p.m.!

*The Miizzzard will roll into Austin at 7:11 p.m. on Alexander St., between MLK & Manor (this street connects to the Creative Research Lab / Flatbed Press parking lot on its east side) and will emerge from his quasi-space vehicle at the southern end of the street, where there will be a sign proclaiming “The Miizzzard Returns!” This event is in no way affiliated with the Creative Research Lab or Flatbed Press.

August 2nd, 2007

M A R S

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 8:33 pm

A Hypergod waits for a mug-full of Uranium to kewl down as he watches the quasi-space sunset.

the inscrutable face of a hyper-masculinity

May 7th, 2007

The Origins of the Miizzzard

Filed under: Artwork,Fiction — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 10:11 pm

Full of Vim and Vigor.

“The Miizzzard no longer exists. He died circa 400,000 B.C.E. while trying to discover the transformative secrets of the Space Yetis.

William Cardini space yeti drawing

His ghost haunts the digital realm and possesses various weavings and synthetic fabrics in the material world in an attempt to recreate Scriabin’s ‘Mysterium,’ a Gesamkunstwerke that destroys this earth to give birth to another.

“He is a figment, a warm bowl of minty fig meat topped with a spoonful of cold jellied plum.

“I have also heard that, although he has lived out only twenty-three years, the path that he traces thru spacetime is discontinuous: he shook to Marie Curie’s radioactive boogaloo, procured pamphlets from Le Sony’r Ra in Chicago, was a starving outcast with Grettir Armundarson on Drang Isle and pissed blue thanks to Yves Klein. His last known location was drunk out of his mind at the Deep Eddy Cabaret, singing karaoke alongside the shade of Rrose Selavy.

“All we can know for sure is that he’s a weird guy.”

-from William Cardini’s biography of the Miizzzard, “A Neo-Archaic Man”