Goodbye Series Art, Hello Trading Cards! (Patreon)

Back when this Patreon crossed the $12,000 milestone (and holy moly, we can't believe it's gone even further than that, but THANK YOU), we promised you series art. Our intention at the time was to give patrons a special memento for each series as well as giving the artists a chance to showcase their true skill beyond the stick figures we ask them to draw!

However, we've been having some discussions with our artists about the time that this series art requires. From these discussions, we learned that the amount of effort these pieces required went far beyond our original expectations, and it was becoming a huge burden on the artists to create these pieces every few months. Once we learned that, we sat down with the two current artists (Lil Chan and Nick DeWitt) to figure out a plan that would work better for them.

Lil and Nick came up with the excellent idea of trading cards: every series, we will produce a set of 2-5 trading cards showcasing the characters, places, and events from the most recent series. The digital versions of these cards will be shared with you at the end of the series; the physical versions will be printed at the end of the year 2018 and made available for purchase!

The cards may be made available through other means as well, but we're still working on that, and will be sure to keep you updated here on Patreon. Additionally, we're going to try going back and creating cards for past series as well, but right now this is a new program so we're still feeling our way through whether that's possible given our current art load. :)

With no further ado, we hope you enjoy the first set of five trading cards for the Khosrau series! Attached to this post are digital versions of the trading cards for Khosrau Anushirawan, Gondeshapur University, Shartranj & Nardshir ("Chess and Backgammon"), Kavadh I, and the Fortress of Oblivion. Art for these cards was created by series artist Lil Chan!