Cropped Will Cardini artwork

June 29th, 2012

Five-Eyed Office-Dwelling Cat-Demon #2

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 7:53 am

Here’s another drawing:

Five-Eyed Cat Demon #2

You can see all of my five-eyed office-dwelling cat demon drawings here.

June 22nd, 2012

Five-Eyed Office-Dwelling Cat-Demon #1

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 12:02 am

I’ve been taking it easy since I finished my collabo with Sean T Collins for Thickness #3, just sketching and doing fun ink drawings. One idea I have is to do a series of five-eyed office-dwelling cat-demon drawings. Here’s one of them:

five-eyed office-dwelling cat-demon

Would y’all be into a zine of these d00dz?

June 8th, 2012

Sketchbook Pages – Secret Prison #666

Filed under: Sketchbook Pages — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 7:48 am

Here are two sketchbook pages where I was brainstorming for the collaborative double-paged spread Keenan Marshall Keller and I did for Secret Prison #666:

William Cardini sketchbook page
If you’re curious, that note to myself in the top left corner refers to Vortex #2.

William Cardini sketchbook page

June 1st, 2012

Sketchbook Pages – Hawk, Vortex #2, and Miscellaneous

Filed under: Sketchbook Pages — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 7:47 am

Here are some sketchbook pages from the past couple months. This first page has sketches for Vortex #2, “Hawk” in Future Shock, and just some random drawings:

William Cardini sketchbook page
I really like the cat spaceship shooting lasers from its eyes to the left of the question, “Who made the Vortex?”

On this second page I was mostly brainstorming for Page 18 of Vortex #2 (also the first page of this preview of Vortex #2 (Update 1/13/2017: this link no longer works)):

William Cardini sketchbook page

May 8th, 2012

Consumption Junction, Tribute Comic, Reading Photos

I got a few miscellaneous things to tell y’all about.

First of all, my guest editorship at Novi Magazine continues with a short post about what I’ve been reading lately, The Accidental Space Spy by Øyvind Thorsby and The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers, both of which are highly entertaining, tongue-in-cheek travelogues. Click the Space Spy screenshot to read my post: (Update 1/13/2017: Novi Magazine and this link are now kaput)

The Accidental Space Spy screenshot

Second, Jason Poland drew a Robbie and Bobby comic that’s a hypercastle tribute! I couldn’t be more flattered since Poland is such an awesome webcartoonist. Click the panel to read his comic in its psychedelic entirety:

Robbie and Bobby Crystal Clear panel

Finally, I have some photos from Melinda and I’s double comic book release party at Domy back in April, all from my wife Glade’s Instagram account:


Glade, Melinda, and her equally talented bf Aaron Whitaker.


Me and Glade.


Me reading my comics.

March 23rd, 2012

Preview Panel of “Hawk” for Future Shock

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: , , — William Cardini @ 7:50 am

This past week I finished a two-page comic for Josh Burggraf’s sci-fi anthology Future Shock. Here’s a preview panel:

Hawk by William Cardini preview panel

Future Shock will debut at MoCCA 2012.

March 14th, 2012

Vortex #2 Sketch

Filed under: Sketchbook Pages — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 12:08 am

Hey y’all, I’m going to be in pretty deep radio silence over the next few months finishing up some projects, so don’t be surprised if blog posts are delayed. But here’s a sketch of some ideas for Vortex #2:

Vortex #2 Sketch

February 17th, 2012

“Moon Queen” B-Sides: Spreads 5 and 7

Filed under: Sketchbook Pages — Tags: , , , — William Cardini @ 7:45 am

Here’s the final set of process shots from Moon Queen, the comic I drew during Frank Santoro’s Correspondence Course:

Moon Queen Spread 5 B Side
Original sketches for Spread 5.

Moon Queen Spread 7 B Side
Spread 7, ink wash layer with loose blackline.

Moon Queen Spread 7 B Side
Spread 7 fore-, mid-, and background in colored pencil.

February 14th, 2012

“Moon Queen” B-Sides: Spread 3

Filed under: Sketchbook Pages — Tags: , , , — William Cardini @ 7:35 am

Here are some process shots from Moon Queen, the comic I drew during Frank Santoro’s Correspondence Course:

Moon Queen Spread 3 B Side
Original sketches for Spread 3.

Moon Queen Spread 3 B Side
Spread 3, gray markers with blackline and geometry overlay.

Moon Queen Spread 3 B Side
Detailed blackline for Spread 3.

Moon Queen Spread 3 B Side
Spread 3 fore-, mid-, and background in colored pencil.

I’ll have one more set of B-sides for y’all on Friday.

February 10th, 2012

“Moon Queen” B-Sides: Cover Spread and Spread 1

Filed under: Sketchbook Pages — Tags: , , , — William Cardini @ 7:17 am

Here are some process shots from Moon Queen, the comic I drew during Frank Santoro’s Correspondence Course:

Moon Queen Cover Spread B Side
First version of the final cover spread.

Moon Queen Spread 1 B Side
Spread 1, gray markers with blackline and geometry overlay.

Moon Queen Spread 1 B Side
Color test of Spread 1.

I’m going to post more next week.