{"product_id":"william-nealy-crash-and-learn-playing-cards-9781634043816","title":"William Nealy Crash and Learn Playing Cards","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlaying card games is more fun than ever with this funny deck that features laugh-out-loud illustrations!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Nealy is an American treasure. The author and cartoonist gained cult-hero status in the outdoor-sports community by blending his passion for the outdoors with his unique style of caricatures. He had a knack for learning--not by doing but by crashing and burning! Now, you can bring his famous art to your game table with the \u003ci\u003eWilliam Nealy Crash and Learn Playing Cards.\u003c\/i\u003e Just try to keep a poker face when you see William's hilarious illustrations--a different one on every card, 54 in total. Better yet, each suit focuses on one of William's four favorite subjects for illustration: critters, life with his girlfriend, puns, and wipeouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCard Features\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e54 illustrations by a world-famous cartoonist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eCartoon topics: critters, puns, relationships, and wipeouts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eIdeal for card games with friends and family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlay games like blackjack, poker, rummy, and solitaire while laughing about your favorite outdoor sports. Get the \u003ci\u003eWilliam Nealy Crash and Learn Playing Cards\u003c\/i\u003e for yourself, and you can also give this deck of cards as a fun and thoughtful gift.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam \"Not Bill\" Nealy\u003c\/b\u003e was a wild, gentle, brilliant artist and creator turned cult hero who wrote 10 books for Menasha Ridge Press from 1982 to 2000. William shared his hard-won \"crash-and-learn\" experiences through humorous hand-drawn cartoons and illustrated river maps that enabled generations to follow in his footsteps. His subjects included paddling, mountain biking, skiing, and inline skating. His hand-drawn, poster-size river maps of the Nantahala, Ocoee, Chattooga, Gauley, Youghiogheny, and several other rivers are still sought after and in use today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He and his wife, Holly Wallace, spent their adult years in a home William built in the woods on the outskirts of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, along with an assortment of dogs, lizards, pigs, snakes, turtles, and amphibians. William died in 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis longtime friend and publisher, Bob Sehlinger, wrote: \"When William Nealy died in 2001, paddling lost its Poet Laureate, one of its best teachers, and its greatest icon. William was arguably the best-known ambassador of whitewater sport, entertaining and instructing hundreds of thousands of paddlers through his illustrated books, including the classics: \u003ci\u003eWhitewater Home Companion Volumes I\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eII, Whitewater Tales of Terror, Kayaks to Hell, \u003c\/i\u003e and his best-known work, \u003ci\u003eKayak, \u003c\/i\u003e which combined expert paddling instruction with artful caricatures and parodies of the whitewater community itself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Menasha Ridge Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50522414022930,"sku":"9781634043816","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_189932c1-71bb-4815-af51-3d86a356d13d.jpg?v=1731116054","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/william-nealy-crash-and-learn-playing-cards-9781634043816","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}