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William Cardini

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The United States

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http://www.hypercastle.com/

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Comics, Science Fiction, Fantasy

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Will Cardini is a psychedelic SF cartoonist. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri with his wife and daughter. His comics include Vortex, his first graphic novel; Skew, which is available on the Study Group Comics website; and Tales from the Hyperverse, a collection of his short comics drawn from 2009 to 2017. ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 194 ratings · 28 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Digestate: A Food & Eating Themed Anthology by J.T. Yost (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Darryl Ayo (Contributor), Josh Bayer (Contributor) 3.48 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Future Shock Zero by Josh Burggraf (Editor), Lala Albert (Contributor), William Cardini (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.53 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caketrain Issue 08 by Joe Aguilar (Goodreads Author), Nubia Bint Aqeel, Juliet Cook (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vortex 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from Hyperverse 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	INK BRICK No. 4 by Alexander Rothman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Louise Aleksiejew, William Cardini (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Urscape #1 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sphere Fear 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Rough house 1 by William Cardini (Goodreads Author), Aaron Whitaker (Goodreads Author), Brendan Kiefer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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