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.

March 16, 2018

Recent Reviews

Filed under: Press — Tags: , , , , — Will Cardini @ 10:33 am

Two of my comics were reviewed in January!

First, my latest comic Tales from the Hyperverse entered the Reviewniverse in episode #244 of the SILENCE! podcast by the Mindless Ones out of the UK, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die.

SILENCE! podcast header by James Stokoe
SILENCE! podcast header by the inimitable James Stokoe.

A quote I jotted down from the Ones about TftHV is, “The color is amazing in this comic.” Also they mistakenly attribute Prism Stalker to me for a sec before realizing their error – Prism Stalker is by Sloane Leong. The first issue of that comic came out last week and it’s a psychedelic, intriguing beginning to a mind-bending SF epic! I’m looking forward to seeing where Leong takes us. Lots of other meaty stuff in that episode, you can give it a listen here.

Second, Sphere Fear AKA Sphere Hear due to my illegible fonts was reviewed on the venerable minicomics review site Optical Sloth. Here’s a quote:

I love the fact that William has been living in this Hypercastle world for roughly a decade now, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Or of making his work more “commercial,” although I have no idea what that would look like in this universe.

Read the whole review here.

One great thing about Optical Sloth is its deep archive. Bramer has been reviewing comics for years and years – he reviewed one of my first minicomics in 2009. Another great thing is that he scans each comic for his review. I hope he doesn’t mind that I’m posting his scans of Sphere Fear so y’all can see the great risograph printing by Issue Press:

Sphere Fear cover scan
Scanned by Kevin Bramer.

Sphere Fear interior scan
Scanned by Kevin Bramer.

Finally, if you’ve read my comics, please consider giving them a review at my author page on Goodreads.