The miniature playing cards on the colaphon
page and the back cover were prizes in a Christmas cracker. Originally a set of
three, they came with written instructions for a series of card tricks, which I
never did get around to trying out. There was no Queen, only a King, but performing
a sex change turned out to be a reasonably straightforward operation.
Poker
Faces is a basic cut and folded zine. The major
benefit of this construction is that all the artwork is on one side of a
single sheet, so the entire layout can be printed simultaneously. This is also
a considerable economic advantage, especially for colour copying, which can be
quite expensive when it runs to several pages. Afterwards, some careful,
but simple folding and cutting quickly transforms the sheet into an eight-page
book.
