multi-stabber tarot

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A legacy in art

On August 13th, 2017, my wife Mo Richard died of an aortic aneurysm. It came out of nowhere and she was gone almost immediately. Mo was so many things. She was a tattoo artist, a painter/illustrator, a gardener, a dog mom, a friend, a feminist, a passionate defender of social progress, a satanist, a witch, a horror movie fan, a true crime buff, a wife, a sister, a daughter, an aunt. At the time of her death, she had been working for about 2 years on creating her own tarot deck.

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As a community mourns

I knew we couldn’t leave her vision unfinished. Mo had created all of the Major Arcana and was into the 2’s on the Minor. She left behind her plans for the deck, so we (myself, her boss Bambi at Jackalope Tattoo, our friend Joe Rheault, and my sister Kari Johnson) gathered together about 40 artists, most of them friends of Mo, to finish the cards that she hadn’t gotten to so we could release the deck as she would have wanted.

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The multi-stabber tarot was born

Fall of 2019 we launched a Kickstarter campaign to make the deck a reality. It was a massive success. Luckily for those who missed it, we still have copies of the deck available in the Weirdpunk Store.
People often ask what multi-stabber means.
It was Mo’s internet handle for damn near everything, from Twitter to Instagram. As a tattoo artist, she often said that her job was to multi-stab people; that she was a multi-stabber. And yes, lower-case is correct.