Kitten Club
From Empresses to King Cats and One-Eyed Jacks, every game is a pageant of unforgettable cats, each with a story to tell...
Kitten Club playing cards
Every card tells a story...
“Kitten Club” playing cards, from a series of four decks designed by John Littleboy, 2006. The pip cards have been transformed into a sequence of images which tell a story.
www.inky-dinky.com See also: Mermaid Queen Bag of Bones Pack of Dogs
Update from Peter Burnett
Kitten Club was re-printed in 2020, published by Artiphany and printed by the USPCC. While many of the pip cards have not changed, some certainly have, and the courts are either quite different or better/more fully drawn. See the new box►
Above: Kitten Club playing cards second edition, John Littleboy, 2020.
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