Until recently, I've been doing my best to respect the original artists' work and keep as much of their linework and composition as possible. With this card, however, I was really quite ruthless in erasing the bulk of the original cartoon: it was simply too muddy and confused to my eye. There was a castle in the original illustration; I took it out and replaced it with a digital one. There was a tree and several other hunters convening behind Mister Punch in the original illustration; I took them all out. The result is, perhaps, the least ironic card in the deck, a very straightforward (to my mind) knight of swords. OK for one card -- but I wouldn't want it to become a trend.
-- Frede.
