My new comic from Retrofit, Tales from the Hyperverse, debuts this weekend at the Small Press Expo near Washington, DC!
Unfortunately I won’t be there but if you can make it, SPX is a blast. I will be at the next show at which Retrofit is tabling, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.
And if you can’t make it to either show and you missed out on the Kickstarter, you can preorder at the Retrofit site or wait until I get my copies and can offer signed copies on this site.
I was very pleased to see that the Retrofit Comics Spring 2017 Kickstarter surpassed its pledge goal last night with about two days left on the clock! Thanks so much to everyone who pledged or got the word out on social media, I really appreciate your support!!
You still have about 34 hours left to back the project and get all the books at a discount – the $45 print and digital comics bundle is about $30 cheaper than getting the books individually. The campaign ends at 10:59pm CDT on Thursday May 11th.
I’ve got two more previews for y’all. Here’s the table of contents (sans background):
Here’s a crop from one of the pages colored by the incomparable Josh Burggraf:
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.
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:
A drawing of the Miizzzard.
A drawing when I was told to do whatever I wanted.
A portrait drawn from looking at a photograph.
A drawing of the Miizzzard vs Kid Space Heater for Josh, the creator of KSH.
I’m super excited to tell y’all that a collection of my old and new short comics, Tales from the Hyperverse, is available to preorder through the Retrofit Comics Spring 2017 Kickstarter!
You can hear me talk about my comic and see previews of the other five great books in the video:
I’ve been working on this series of comics since 2009 when I drew “The Floating Crystal Witch ATTACKS the Miizzzard of the Year 2978.” Since then I’ve drawn comics in a similar size and format off and on. You can see some of the comics on the “Tales of the Hyperverse” page on my site.
The Retrofit published collection will be 40 pages and include 16 pages of comics that I haven’t posted anywhere. I’ve also asked my friend and frequent collaborator Josh Burggraf to add his painterly colors to five of the pages and I’ll color the other ones that were originally black and white. I’ll post more details throughout the Kickstarter campaign which ends on the night of May 11th.
Here are scans of four of the five small paintings that I did for the 2016 Kansas City Flatfile show at the H&R Block Artspace:
“Waterfall Crystal 1,” watercolor and india ink, 6×8 inches, May 2016.
“Monster Crystal 1,” watercolor, 6 x 8 inches, May 2016.
“Monster Crystal 2,” watercolor, 7 x 11 inches, May 2016.
“Alien River Shaman 1,” watercolor, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, May 2016. A riff on a scene from Skew.
It was my first art show in KC! I’m thankful that Glade and I were invited. I had a fifth watercolor that was too big for my scanner and the photos didn’t turn out. Maybe I’ll try to document it again later.
I haven’t done much painting with watercolors. I like how you can mix the colors on the paper by doing wet-on-wet or layering washes. It feels more spontaneous than having to mix all my colors beforehand like I do with my gouache and acrylic paintings.
Sup y’all, I’m just melting into a hyper-grid mountain over here.
In other news, the Vortex eBook is now available on itch.io!
All of Skew Part 3 is now up on Study Group. Here are four of my favorite pages:
I’m working on Part 4. I’m about 30 pages in. Here’s a potential cover:
Orders of Vortex placed until midnight tonight (eastern time) are only $13. I will send them domestic priority mail for free. They should arrive before Christmas.
Sorry international friends but this offer is for US addresses only.
Deal over, thanks to everyone who bought a copy! You can order a copy of Vortex from me here (shipping included in prices).
I’ll draw in your order too!
Skew Part 3 has debuted on Study Group.
Here’s the cover for Part 3.
We’ll post new pages every Tuesday.
Here’s Page 122.
The first ten pages are already up.
Here’s what the characters are doing at the beginning of Part 3: The Miizzzard, still trapped in the digestive system of a hypermollusc, has subdivided to isolate and destroy an invasive microdrone, planted by an unknown enemy. Meanwhile a Space Yeti named Bya is traveling to the find the Miizzz and a slime-meteor-mech gleefully stomps across the planet.
