Thanks everyone! I'm super excited to have run my first kickstarter successfully, and I owe a lot of that to the excellent advice and feedback I got from here.

I fixed the size on the diamond and spade. Some of the images in the kickstarter are the old ones.

Thanks for your support, I really appreciate it!

The Kickstarter is LIVE!!! Woooo!!!
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Great suggestions. Thanks!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/btimony/monster-pin-up-girls-playing-cards-and-hardcover-a Hi gang! As I near the start of the dreaded kickstarter campaign, I've been trying to nail down some of the design challenges. This will be a novelty art deck featuring 54 original illustrations by me. H...

The price quote came at a little over $2 per deck. Thats $5200, plus around $800 in fees. I tacked on another thousand for shipping and unexpected costs. Thats for unbranded cards. There's an extra cost for branding, but they didn't say what it was. Thanks for the tip on Apollo. I just sent a reques...

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I emailed my Bicycle rep asking if it was possible to do a smaller print run. If not I'll go with MPC and have USPCC as a stretch goal.

Hi guys! As some of you know, I've been working on putting together a novelty playing card deck of Monster Pin Up Girls. http://www.monsterpinupgirls.com/ I'm planning on launching the Kickstarter in October. I got a price quote from Bicycle, and its a lot of money. the minimum run of 2500 decks wou...

Magic_Orthodoxy wrote:You should go to kickstarter.com and do a search for "playing cards" and scroll through what some people have done in the past, it also might give you some scope at how much a project this can be. Then you'll have a whole new set of questions. Ha ha.

Good idea.

There are some really great design suggestions going on here. I hadn't even thought about what the box might look like or even that there was such a thing as an ad card! I'm a total newb to the whole playing card thing. I'm definitely going to rework the card back. Thanks, everybody!

MagikFingers, I agree, this is more of a novelty deck. My primary motivation is that I thought it'd be a cool way to showcase my art. I'll also publish a traditional art book when its done. Magic_Orthodoxy, doing 54 images is a lot of work, but thats kind of the point. It'll keep me busy for the res...

Welcome Bobby! I love what I've seen so far. One question... I didn't think there were that many monster variations out there. Are you actually planning on 54 different characters, or will you be varying the character's poses to increase your numbers? Keep it coming! S I have a list of 54 different...

Hi gang! I'm the illustrator here, and you are correct that it isn't a deck yet. Right now its just illustrations. The plan is to draw one illustration a week, for a total of 54 cards, each one having a unique illustration on it. (And yes, the jokers will be Jekyll and Hyde.) I do have some mock ups...

There's already a thread? Sweet.

Hi, I'm Bobby. I'm a cartoonist who's working on an art deck in my spare time. The theme is Monster Pin Up girls. I'm posting a new drawing roughly once a week. In about a tear I hope to have the 54 pieces of art necessary to make a custom deck of monster pin up girl playing cards. You can see the c...