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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: inherit;">Mister Punch and the Tarot go back a long way together.</span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Both probably originated in Italy — they are similarly themed and have as their subject all the light and dark of life’s great mysteries. Punch faces the Hangman, Death and the Devil in every performance. With his lascivious habits, his zest for both taking and giving a beating, and his ability to out-think even mortality itself, it can be said that he is Life Personified, perfectly suited to the Tarot: and THE TRAGICALLY COMIC OR COMICALLY TRAGIC TAROT OF MISTER PUNCH is a striking 78-card deck that feels as if it should have existed hundreds of years before now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 14px;"><b>Mister Punch </b>and <b>the Tarot</b> go back a long way together. Both originated in Italy, and both explore life's Great Mysteries. Indeed, Mister Punch is perfectly suited to the Tarot! Now the creator of the celebrated <b><i>Tarot of the Zirkus Mägi</i></b> has produced a Tarot that feels as if it should have existed over a hundred years ago, featuring <b>Mister Punch</b> and his full cast of adversaries.</span><br style="color: black; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="color: black; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 14px;">Along with card meanings for the Major and Minor Arcana and unique spreads designed just for the deck, this companion volume also features a fully illustrated treasure-trove of <b><i>Punch & Judy</i> history </b>(including a version of the original play), plus insightful connections between the worlds of Punch and the Tarot and even a short story by the deck's designer..</span></span></div>
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The printed proof has arrived and all systems are ready to go. Come back on the March 2 launch date. And thanks for taking this journey through Puppet Tarot Land with me.</div>
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I wouldn't normally re-post all the deck images like this, but having changed the main font mid-way through the design process, that means half the images on this site no longer reflect the finished designs!! -- And I am finding that I really like how they all look together....</div>
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The base image for this card was just right, but I was feeling a little bored that day and wanted to juice it up: so I built <b>Mr. Punch</b> a new gibbet with rope that had substance, and in place of the cartoon Devil that he was hanging in the original drawing, I added in an actual Devil puppet from one of my mother's Punch and Judy sets (long gone now, alas; thrown to the winds in auction). I twisted the puppet's body this way and that to make him look more dingle-dangly, and because I wanted him hanging over the edge of the stage (but didn't want to lose any part of him from the card) I added in a second proscenium: actually a <b>Punch and Judy</b> ball-toss game.</div>
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With this card I used another New Year's allegory from the pages of <b><i>Punch </i></b>magazine to create a very slightly radical take on the <b>Temperance</b> card. Although many of the classic symbols are still there (including a couple added by me), the blending of contrasting fluids into a cohesive whole is replaced by the metaphor of musical collaboration, and the departure of imbalance. </div>
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Although anything can happen between now and then and many a slip-up can occur, I have for entirely personal reasons set the tentative release date of this deck for <b>May 2, 2015. </b></div>
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Although I didn't find and hadn't seen this base image until well into the process of making the deck, it's just a fact that drawings like this are the reason that a <b>Punch</b> Tarot seems inevitable. This is actually a detail of a much larger drawing, a simple (?) New Year's allegory published in<b><i> Punch</i></b> magazine to usher in the year 1891. Beyond the cropping, I didn't have to do anything other than color the thing. Another, later New Year's allegory will appear on one of the remaining cards.</div>
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It's all done now. I've been through, made the final revisions and changed, formatted the final images, and the deck is off at the printers for the excruciating wait to get a printed proof. I'll be posting the last few cards slowly over the next couple of weeks. </div>
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If it seems that these have gone by fast, just consider that this is "what I am doing now;" it's <i style="font-weight: bold;">all</i> that I'm doing now: no writing, no side projects. Pamela Colman Smith created her deck in five months, and I'd have to go and look at the dates, but I dare say it's been just about that for the creation of this deck from the time I started working on it until now.</div>
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I suppose this could have been The Emperor just as well ... but by the time I found this illustration I had already done The Emperor, and anyway nearly everyone in the picture (including Kingy <b>Punch</b> himself) is holding onto something sharp and pointy. Note that the Jester (usually a role reserved for Punch!) is "riding" a Pantomime Horse, with his own feet sticking out the bottom.</div>
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I cobbled this together from four separate elements. <b>Mister Punch</b> -- at least in the pages of the magazine named for him -- appeared just as often in positions of state as he did acting outside the law... actually, more often that not, the magazine version of <b>Punch</b> is a fine upstanding citizen. As he has no problem at all passing judgement on his fellow man, it's only fair that he's just as comfortable sentencing himself. Here's a case of the scales truly being in balance...</div>
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At the beginning of an allegorical visit to the planets, <b>Mister Punch</b> pays a visit to <b>Father Time</b>, and it is the moment of their meeting that gives us our Hermit card. If you have a copy of <b>Cab Calloway</b> singing "The Old Man of The Mountain," why not slip it on right now?</div>
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For a while, this was going to be the <b>Knight of Cups,</b> being so very water-themed and all... but the drawing that I ended up using there was too cute to let go. I actually had many candidates for this card, featuring Punch in both mythological and rural settings, but all were laid out horizontally, and would have been difficult t frame in a tall, narrow card. This one wins by default, because its layout almost exactly replicates that of a Marseilles-style Chariot card. </div>
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Of course <b>Mister Punch</b> is most noted for his bad behavior, and his behavior is never worse than when directed at his own family -- in particular, <b>Punch Junior.</b> I think it is really doubtful that there are any professional <b>Punch and Judy</b> performers still working today who actually allow their Punch to shove his baby into a meat grinder and grind it up into sausages, but it is fervently to be hoped that they still allow him to toss the baby out the window. I fondly recall my first <b>Punch and Judy</b> show where the baby was flung wildly from the stage and landed with a plop right at my feet. One looks at one's own parents in a much more appreciative light after one has witnessed their first <b>Punch & Judy</b> show.</div>
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The base image here has been with the deck right from the start: this is one of the very first cards I laid out, and one of the original <b><i>Punch</i></b> magazine cartoons that made me think of doing a Punch tarot in the first place. Beyond the coloring, I've done little to it other than to take out the line-art for the globe and replace it with a real vintage-style globe. I could have put a wreath around him, I could have included the four angelic symbols that typically reside in the four corners of this card, but I decided not to. <b>Mister Punch</b> himself and the attitude that he is posing are all the symbols this card needs.</div>
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It actually shows an aged <b>Mister Punch</b> from a then far-future time (wearing springs on his feet and an electromagnetic hat) visiting a museum of outdated technologies ("modern antiques" according to the caption)... and as near as I can tell, all of the exhibits were in active contemporary use in 1879, when the illustration was made. So what we actually have here is an allegory of progress, in which the great and advanced technologies of today become the museum pieces of the future. Here is the original illustration:</div>
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The things on display include gas light fixtures, a diving suit, a steam engine, a thermometer, fireplace implements, wood paving, clay drainage pipes and more. <a href="http://www.tarotuniversity.com/2011/09/tarot-of-the-holy-light-deck.html" target="_blank"><b>Christine Payne-Towler,</b> she of the great <b><i>Tarot of the Holy Light,</i></b></a> defines the seven of swords as "the card of mental preparedness, acquired through the use of imagination, including rehearing and visualizing one's desired achievements in advance." In my own <b><i><a href="http://circustarot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tarot of the Zirkus Magi</a></i></b>, I ended up assigning the title of "Audacity" to this card. <b><i>Katz and Goodwin,</i></b> in their new volume <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.waitesmithtarot.com/" target="_blank">Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot</a>. </i>define the card as "Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence."</div>
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It takes a little thinking, but in the end I think this audacious illustration is right at home on this card. In the original drawing, Mister Punch is shown leaning on a cane. I replaced it with a sword. I then hung five more swords in the case behind him (replacing the oar), and placed the final card below the puppet theater stage.</div>
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Here is <b>Mister Punch</b> in his Victorian garden, the model of contentment, penning an Ode to Nature. If it's anything like the ode spoken by the <b>Big Bad Wolf</b> in a Warner Brothers cartoon by <b>Chuck Jones</b>, it will read: "Huh-LLO, Naytcah! Ah LUHV yis!" I stopped short of putting a Raven on his hump. Maybe I should do that...</div>
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Although simple in design, this is quite a hopeful card and one that is meaningful to me at this moment in time.</div>
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I found the cartoon drawing of a <b>Punch</b> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=phrenology+head&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QuomVbKzMcLbsATFmIGoDg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1601&bih=968" target="_blank">phrenology head</a> early on and knew that I wanted to use it somewhere in the deck, but until just yesterday I could not for life of me figure out how in heck I was going to fit it in. It was coming down to the wire: really, only the <b>two of swords </b>and one other card had not been blocked out, and this drawing fit with neither of them -- or so I thought. Then yesterday this idea presented itself out of the blue, and ohmygosh I could not get on it fast enough. A good idea is an exciting thing and you want nothing more than to make it happen right away. Fortunately I didn't have to wait. I think it's just what the card ordered. What do you think?</div>
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