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“Politicards 2012 casts today’s most popular political players as characters from classic feature films. Selected and ranked by national polls, the leading election year politicians, pundits and celebs are caricatured by Politicards creator and award-winning illustrator Peter Green.”

This deck a standard poker sized deck with 52 cards, each card face featuring a different caricature, with blue spade and club pips, and two jokers, the Democrat donkey and the Republican elephant. This deck is still sealed. Politicards have been issued for every election year beginning in 1996, though the first deck was released in 1972. I have a deck for every year except for 1996.

Front of deck

Back of deck

Feminist Playing Cards is a project from Homoground, a music website that promotes visibility for minority musicians. The deck features custom illustrations of 52 feminist musicians drawn by 14 feminist artists. Some of the musicians featured include Joan Jett, Liz Fair, Nina Simone, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Grace Jones, PJ Harvey, and more. Each card is different. This is a 56 card deck, with two jokers, still sealed in its original package. The tuck box is not a standard tuck box, and the edges are not glued securely. I have to tape the edges to keep the box together.  For all of the card faces, and information from the artist who drew it, visit Feminist Playing Cards.

Front of deck

Card back design

Edgar Allan Poe front of deck

This Edgar Allen Poe deck features artwork by Dave Edgerly and is derived from such Poe classics as “The Masque of the Red Death”, “Murders on the Rue Morgue”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Black Cat” as well as some of his more obscure works that true Poe fans will immediately recognize such as “Hop-Frog”, “The Gold Bug”, “The Oval Portrait”, and “Berenice”. The aces, face cards, and jokers are based on different characters. The deck will be printed by USPCC and feature the Bicycle Brand and were first printed in the summer of 2014.  Read more »