An educational trading card platform organized around the APHCO framework — five interlocking series telling the stories the curriculum forgot.
APHCO is the organizing principle of RELIK A–Z: Animal · Plant · Human · Creature · Otherworldly. Each category is its own series with its own voice, its own visual vocabulary, and its own architecture for understanding. Each entry is a card, an essay, an image, a question.
The kingdom of the breathing — the ones with whom we share the planet and the ones we have nearly lost.
The kingdom of the rooted — older than us, patient with us, holding the climate of the world in their cells.
What it means to be one of us — past, present, future. The terms we live inside, the ones we are still arguing about.
The beings we made up to think about ourselves — myth, monster, spirit, cryptid, ghost.
The unexplained, the haunted, the not-quite-debunked. What we cannot account for, and what that says about us.
Based in Los Angeles, RELIK A–Z: The Essentials is an educational platform that blends museum-quality content with engaging, interactive media. We offer collectible cards, original music, video content, a podcast, and more — inviting curiosity and rigorous thinking, from folklore and cryptids to social justice to the diversity of life on Earth.
Each entry pairs a documented essay with original artwork. Each card is part of a larger universe organized around a single principle: name it, document it, give it the weight it deserves.