I started getting involved with The 52 Plus Joker Club around 2021 and I wish I had started earlier. Fun, community, and educational. And it's cheap to join. I think $25 per year. What do you get for that $25 investment?
1. A printed magazine: Clear The Decks. This arrives quarterly and is a fabulous read. I can also leave it around the house to remind everyone what type of guy I am!
2. The 52Plus Joker Forum. A good old-fashioned forum with threaded discussions where you can look up what people said last week, month, and year. I really miss the forums: most of them were destroyed by Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
3. Auctions! I think they've done two a year recently. One is purely online: the other is online and in person at the conference. At the conference, there is both a live and a silent auction. I have both bought and sold.
4. Conferences Annually: You bet! Every year in October, about 200 quirky friendly people get together. Most seem to have a magic background. There are card artists. Card designers. Cardistry people. Designers. Producers. And vendors. And many different types of collectors. I've now been to both to the 2023 and 2024 conferences and I intend to go every year going forward.
5. A second magazine: Card Culture. This one is purely online.
My advice: Click thru right now and join the 52 Plus Joker Club!
My Visit to The Playing Card Museum in Paris - July 2023
My Visit to the Founier Card Museum in Vitoria Gastiez Spain - July 2024
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Thanks for your input and for reading and thinking about jokers.