Wholesale McSweeney's Author Cards

For years you’ve seen athletes, web-slinging superheroes, orcs, and pocket monsters get the trading-card treatment, while you’ve sat in your room hoping upon hope that the heroes of the Harlem Renaissance or giants of the interwar expatriate Parisian scene would get their own. The wait is over! In 2024 McSweeney’s began publishing specialty author cards, and now they are available for purchase on Faire starting with series three and four (series one and two are entirely sold out). Each pack includes fifteen cards printed on high-quality paper, each featuring bios, trivia, little-known publishing stats, original illustrated portraits, and huge fun. (No chewing gum included.) Series four also includes the deluxe Superstars of Children’s Fiction pack, featuring publishing legends of the picture-book world from Maurice Sendak and Tove Jansson to Jason Reynolds and Kate DiCamillo. Gotta catch ’em all! McSweeney's Author Cards are available for order on faire as a carton of 3 each of 6 complete packs bedecked by James Baldwin, Beverly Cleary, James Joyce, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Judy Blume, and Joan Didion respectively. each individual item represents 6 complete packs retailing at 7.99 each, testers (three individual packs) available.