Bicycle EveRydAy zomBIES
Bicycle “EveRydAy zomBIES” playing cards with artwork by Rob Sacchetto, USA, 2013.
Unlike an earlier Bicycle zombie pack which offered tips on how to avoid a zombie attack, this Bicycle pack, published in 2013, simply displays full-length colourful and imaginative zombie cartoon figures on each of the 54 cards. The artist is Rob Sacchetto, a freelance illustrator, painter, and visual artist. He has worked in a variety of mediums including film, television, and comic books, and has been illustrating custom zombie portraits full-time since 2006. He also provides the artwork for the popular zombie website and his blog zombiedaily.tumblr.com. Rob has also published two zombie books: Zombiewood: The Celebrity Dead Exposed (2010) and The Zombie Handbook: How to Identify the Living Dead and Survive the Coming Zombie Apocalypse (2009). See the box►
Against a bright yellow background Rob’s zombies assume the bodies of both children and adults, all from different walks of life – doctors, nurses, clowns, politicians, golfers, musicians, gardeners, anglers, skateboarders, footballers, pensioners, etc. The pack also includes an advertising card and another giving brief biographical information about the artist.
Above: Bicycle “EveRydAy zomBIES” playing cards with artwork by Rob Sacchetto, USA, 2013
By Peter Burnett
Member since July 27, 2022
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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