Oni Playing Cards - Kickstarter Page

Oni Playing Cards - Etsy Page

New year... time to face your demons.

Oni Playing Cards is printed on Bicycle linen stock by the USPCC, and features original pencil illustrations of notable demons from Japanese myth. The French suits are replaced with Japanese alternate suits, including the monk's spade, cherry blossom, yen, and kanabo.







We would love to have your support in making this a reality! All the best,
- Dave

One year ago I approached this forum with the Wiretap deck, a deck about spying in the age after the War on Terror. Though Wiretap did not reach funding on Kickstarter, its successor has risen from the ashes like a phoenix.

Check out the sequel to the Wiretap deck, Wiretap:Gag Order, here!





Thank you for all the support so far!

Hey guys, Dave Boyd here.
I was the artist of the Sultana deck that got funded last year (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/661632156/sultana-playing-cards-inspired-by-ancient-deck-usp), and I just want to thank everyone again who pitched in and backed the project. This brings me to the next project that I've been working on - Bicycle® Wiretap playing cards.



Why should the government be the ones with all of the fun spying tools? Wiretap is a reflection of the current spying scandals in Washington, D.C. Below are a few unfinished sample cards. There will actually be more background to each, and each suit has a theme based on the types of spying tools out there. The face cards will also have a secondary pip up top. The back is fully reversible.



The campaign starts on Kickstarter on FEBRUARY 28th, 2014, and, if funded, will be distributed by Jackson Robinson's King's Wild Fulfillment program. The cards will be printed on Air Cushion finish with a Matte tuckbox (though this is subject to change as funding increases). Alongside the deck, I have also parsed out expenses for custom t-shirts, magnets, dice, and offset prints. I want to humbly thank you all again for helping me and Deco Playing Cards to fund our last deck, and want to give you guys the best that I've got.



These cards are nearly complete, but I need to run through in the next 12 days and give the colors major tweaks.



Some of the court cards still feel a little out of place, and so I'll be revisiting them over the next few days to make them feel a little more "Big Brother-esque."



As with the Sultana deck, all of the cards are 100% pencil with digital layout and coloring.

For more info on the face cards and reasons behind my choices in the deck, please visit: http://humorousrobot.com/2014/01/16/rising-to-crescendo/. Ignore the line about the Jokers and the previous designs of the pips/aces, lots has changed since this preliminary post went out! I really want to get you guys involved again, so the Jokers' designs will be offered as a pledge level. If the level isn't taken, however, I will go ahead and go with my original plans - but where's the fun in that?

Again, thanks guys and I look forward to bringing you guys an awesome deck (or two! :wink:).