Comic

Fiona Carruth's twenty-two card majors set came through The Game Crafter in 2014, and the publisher is half the historical interest: print-on-demand card manufacture opened deck-making to anyone with files and ambition, and this deck documents that democratization as clearly as its comic-book style documents its aesthetic. Majors-only suits both the format's economics and the artistic case, twenty-two cards is a complete graphic statement, a one-shot issue of the arcana. Comic style earns its place in tarot honestly, as the 8-Bit and Cosmic Slumber decks elsewhere in this catalog also argue: comics and cards share the craft of compressing story into a frame. Carruth's humor-forward, pop-culture register keeps the set light on its feet. It suits comic readers and small-press collectors, majors-only users, students of the print-on-demand wave that reshaped indie tarot, and anyone assembling the catalog's comics-lineage shelf. Readers needing minors and gravitas should reach for a full graphic novel of a deck instead.