Cropped Will Cardini artwork

September 4, 2026

New SPHERE FEAR Edition Debuting at Paper Plains Zine Fest #5 & Sketchbook Project Closing at KCAC but Living Online Hereafter

Filed under: Art Shows,Comic Fests — Tags: , , — Will Cardini @ 6:25 pm

Come see my work, including a new edition debut, at two events this weekend: a group exhibition closing at KCAC and a vendor fair at PPZF.

From mid August 2025 to mid May 2026, I filled up a 60-page Moleskine-style sketchbook for the annual Sketchbook Project group exhibition at the Kansas City Artist Coalition. The sketchbooks, which have been on display in the Snap Space gallery at KCAC since July, will be coming down after the closing reception tonight, Fri Sept 4th, from 5-8pm, but will be available online forever after. Big props to the KCAC crew for scanning all those pages!

I emblazoned the cover of my sketchbook with my name but here’s a screenshot of what it looks like on their site so you can find it when scrolling through all the sketchbooks. Click the screenshot to visit the archive.

Will Cardini sketchbook cover on the Kansas City Artist Coalition website

Then on Sunday Sept 6th, I’ll be tabling for the first time since April 2025 at the Paper Plains Zine Fest #5 vendor fair in Lawrence, KS! You can see all the deetz on this flyer:

Purple flyer promoting the Paper Plains Zine Fest 5 vendor fair. It has a photo of Will Cardini giving a peace sign in a star cutout.
The vendor fair will be Sunday, Sept 6th, from 11am-5pm at Van Go, 715 New Jersey St. in Lawrence, KS.

I’ll be inside Van Go at Table 45, next to my wife, Glade Hensel, and daughter, who’ll be slinging their own zines. Here’s the map of the main floor with our location marked:

Table map of the main floor of Van Go with tables 45 and 46 highlighted with a callout that says Will Cardini & fam

Saving the best for last, I’m really excited to announce that I’m going to debut a new edition of my two-color riso mini-comic Sphere Fear at PPZF #5! J.T. Yost, who’s currently running a Kickstarter for some Denis Kitchen riso mini-comic collections, printed it for me and it looks as trippy as I intended! Sphere Fear was originally published by Yeah Dude Comics in 2015 and sold out quickly, so I’m stoked to have this new edition with some improvements for y’all!

Photo of three copies of the Will Cardini mini-comic Sphere Fear in a loose stack. The mini-comics are orange, brown, and green. The cover shows a strange, helmeted figure with one orange, reptilian eye open and the other dripping green tears.

I was bummed I couldn’t make either PPZF or KCZC last year, so I’m really glad that I’ll be back behind a con table this weekend.

September 1, 2023

Paper Plains Zine Fest 2

Filed under: Comic Fests — Tags: , — Will Cardini @ 7:46 am

This Sunday I’ll be tabling at the second Paper Plains Zine Fest in Lawrence, KS!

I’ll have this new riso print for sale…

Robot Warrior 001 risograph print

…plus my usual offerings.

Paper Plains Zine Fest 2 flyer: Saturday September 2nd: Workshops and Programs at KU and throughout Lawrence. Sunday September 3rd: Vendor Fair 11am to 5pm at Van Go, 715 New Jersey St., Lawrence, KS.
Flyer by Lydia Halo.

This year, they’ve expanded PPZF to two days, and divided the programming and tabling onto separate days, which I love to see because tablers can attend without losing out on sales! The schedule on their website has the programming for Day 1, AKA tomorrow.

Sunday will be all tabling; I’ll be at Table 35, cozily sandwiched between my buddies Red Shorts Bindery and Jason Lips, plus a surprise special guest!! Click here to see a table map

September 2, 2022

Paper Plains Zine Fest

Filed under: Comic Fests — Tags: — Will Cardini @ 8:17 am

Hey y’all, I’ll be tabling at the inaugural Paper Plains Zine Fest this Saturday in Lawrence, KS!

Paper Plains Zine Fest flyer: Saturday September 3rd at Van Go, 715 New Jersey St., Lawrence, KS, 11am to 5pm
Flyer by Lydia Halo.

Entry is free. Come say hi at Table 48! There’ll be tables inside and outside; I’ll be inside, where masks are required.

Paper Plains Zine Fest table map

This is my second zine fest of the year (scream emoji), so I’ll have a similar setup to what I had at KC Zine Con #7, here’s a shot of my table from that event:

Photo of Will Cardini at Kansas City Zine Con 7 in June 2022

I’ll have my comics, a couple riso prints, and a few books from Retrofit. See ya there!