My newest deck LE TAROT DES ANIMALERIES is now Live at Indiegogo. Please consider supporting this bewitching tarot pack from the creator of TAROT OF THE ZIRKUS MÄGI, TRICK OR TAROT and THE MARVELOUS ORACLE OF OZ. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/le-tarot-des-animaleries-full-78-card-tarot-pack/x/2...

All awards, be they Oscars, Emmys, Grammys or Tarot, are simply Popularity Contests. They usually reward creators who don't need the boost, and punish for unpopular opinions. The Oscars and Emmys ceased being relevant DECADES ago. Tarot Awards, since they do NOT come from any established central org...

Ha! Not much to disagree with here! Culture as a whole is not well-served by the internet, and particularly "social media," that term itself having taken on a mocking, ironic quality. Too many have taken upon themselves the mission to shout down and silence anyone and everyone who holds an...

Yes. This. So much of it is simply a "not enough hours in the day," as you pointed out. But I have also reached a point where I fear to engage in any serious discussion, because there are so many haters and trolls out there, and anything you create or type can and will be used against you....

Sorry I've not been active here at the forum! But I have been busy! Just released Old Bear Tarot AND a new edition of TRICK OR TAROT. You can see all the OLD BEAR TAROT cards here: https://tarotbyducksoup.com/products/old-bear-tarot-full-78-card-deck or here, in a video: https://youtu.be/dtIYQ8ybObk...

Much to digest in your post. Sorry I've been out of touch with the group -- the last few weeks have been crazy and I'm still trying to find the bottom... I'll be back when things calm down to a dull roar...

Does anyone know of a good offset (not digital) printing company WITHIN THE USA that does large (or large-ish: 1000 copies or more) print runs and is familioar with the needs of Tarot decks? I'm specifically looking for something US-based to replace the company I have been doing business with in Hon...

Well, I'm game to open up the catalog and either assist with the production work or assemble the final product. We'd need to agree on a uniform page template and structure. Should it be organized by CATEGORY and indexed by CREATOR... or the reverse? Or some variation? We'd all need to be on the same...

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Now, don't think I'm trying to throw cold water on everything, but this is another issue in getting such a thing as a co-op together: --> Everybody is pressed for time. Today, I've been dealing with customer issues all morning, I have to ship items this afternoon, I have website management that need...

An important factor in the success and viability of the thing is for indie creators to retain their own identity while still being a part of the whole. I haven't spent five years establishing Duck Soup Productions just to be absorbed in something else, and I'm certain everybody else feels the same w...

Glad to. I have two different versions still online via Dropbox. First is the original format, which is a straight-forward catalog. This was the 2017 version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x8m6py1vnrafock/Spring%202017%20Catalog.pdf?dl=0 Second -- I wanted to make it more interesting, something along th...

Again, good on you for being willing and able to figure all that stuff out ... So what would be an acceptable and possibly productive First Step in the creation of such a "Tarot Publisher's Alliance" ? Is it as simple as opening up a new thread on the forum? I have worries about even talki...

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Thanks for this info. The ISBN is really useful if you want to sell your decks through bookstores, whether they are technically books or not. In America, all U.S. Games Systems decks, for example, have an ISBN number. Booksellers are set up with inventory software that relies on ISBN numbers. Additi...

How's that working out, selling another creator's decks through your shop? Good on you for doing that. It seems to me that that's a valid first step towards creating something like the system you were thinking about earlier in the thread. For some considerable time now, I have been thinking about ho...

Hi, all -- I'm happy to report TWO new releases now available at www.tarotbyducksoup.com ... with more on the way! First is the Second Edition if The Original Arthur Rackham Oracle. It was printed offset in Hong Kong by the same folks who did my TRICK OR TAROT and TINKER'S DAMN decks, and they did a...

Thank you! The platform makes it relatively easy. Still a lot of work, but there's an existing framework underneath everything, so you're not making it all up from scratch. The hardest part is the same as when you're learning any new platform or software: you have to figure out how the person who ma...

I've been so busy for the past month that I haven't had any opportunity to even glance at the forums, much less post here. But now it's starting to calm down a bit to its usual state of disorder, and at last it can be posted: “Come on, boys, we’re changing lodgings!” Fagin did it in “Oliver Twist” a...

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Thank you, Charlie Brown, for posting about this! I have been so dad-blasted busy with too many irons in the fire (of course I picked this moment in time to start developing a new website) that it plain slipped my mind to visit the forum until just now. So -- yeah. Rackham Oracle Funding Now at Kick...

We're in the final 36 hours of the campaign, and although it looks bad, the fact is I only need about 50-80 more pledges to put the thing over the top. And that can absolutely happen in the amount of time that's left. Please visit the page and consider CROOKED WAY TAROT, if not for yourself, then as...

The campaign to fund CROOKED WAY TAROT is now found under the "Games / Playing Cards" category. It was previously in the "Art" category, because of advice from backers who told me that "most tarot decks launch in the ART category." That now appears to be advice that I s...

Halfway through the campaign runtime, and we're only 38% towards the goal. Please share the projects links as you feel you can. The deck's vital signs need boosting! Thank you!

CROOKED WAY TAROT is a full-on Gothic pack from the creator of TRICK OR TAROT and the ZIRKUS MÄGI. With a heart of coal and an even blacker sense of humor, this is a tarot designed for intense readings year-‘round, by practitioner and novice alike. It is 35% funded in its first week and a half, but ...