Box
Configuration: 29 Cards Per Box [28
Sticker Cards PLUS 1 Sketch Card or Foil Card or Relic Per Box] • Look for
Short Printed Box Bony Tony – 1:10. Guarantee Parallels/Inserts • 3 Red Heart
Parallels (Kiss Cut Stickers) • 1 Chocolate Fingerprint Parallel • 2
Putrid Poems • 1 C Name • 1 Foil or Sketch or Relic Per Box. Set
Configuration: 21 Subjects (10A Names and 10B Names) and Checklist. Base
Parallels: Rainbow Foil /25 – 1:6 • Gold Foil Border /50 – 1:3 •
Red Hearts (20 Subjects) – 3 Per Box (Kiss Cut Stickers) • Chocolate Fingerprint
Parallel (20 Subjects) – 1 Per Box. Inserts: C Names
(10 Subjects) – 1 Per Box • Putrid Poems (10 Subjects) – 2 Per Box •
Relic Cards (3 Subjects) – 1:10 • Tina and Hedy by Ermsy (1 Subject) – 1:5
• Sketch Cards – Odds 1:2.5.

Sketch
Card Artist List — 1. Eric Lassen, 2. Cesar Lopez, 3. Steve Crockett
(60ct), 4. Kimber Grobman (60ct), 5. Barry Niber(t) (50ct), 6. Eric Medina (70ct),
7. Neil Camera, 8. Carmen SantaFerrara (50ct), 9. Darrin Pepe, 10. Jasmine Contois
(70ct), 11. Brandhen Snyder, 12. Aaron Laurich (50ct), 13. Barry Spears, 14. David
Acevedo (70ct), 15. Nik Castaneda, 16. Erik Muller, 17. Chad Scheres, 18. Victor
Moreno (70ct), 19. Tim Clinton, 20. Marion Miller, 21. Albert Collado, 22. RooBeeo
[B.Rubio], 23. Kasey O’Rourke, 24. Vincent D’Ippolito, 25. Gregory Fages, and
26. Simone Arena. NOTE:
the sketch artists created 50, 60, or 70 sketch cards each, and received 5, 6,
or 7 return sketch cards to sell, respectively.

crockpotcomics
(Steve Crockett) — (FEB 8) “It’s GPK Valentines day Putrid Poetry card
release day. I did 60 cards cards for this set. Here are almost half of them.
I’ll post the rest tomorrow so I’ll have something to post on Friday. Cheers!!!”
+ (FEB 9) “The rest of my GPK Vday sketch cards. Thanks to flippers the set
sold out in like 2 and a half hours so look for most of these on eBay.”
kimberlandart
— (FEB 8) “Today’s the day! GPK Putrid Poetry Drops
today! I did a few fun insert designs for these. I did 15 love letter stamps,
15 chocolate box designs and 30 valentine hearts! I have APs coming soon! All
cards are from OS4. Enjoy!” + (FEB 10) “Now available in my sketch card
shop! My artist returns from the GPK Valentine’s Day set. I thought it would be
cute to turn them into little cupids!”
nibertsgrossart
— (FEB 11) “Here’s a sample of what I did for Putrid Poetry, Topps most
recent Garbage Pail Kids exclusive online release for Valentines. I
did 50 cards for the set. 10 cards I made a special subset I’ll show soon. The
other 40 are the style above, all OS4 Characters as that was the requirement.
20 of which I crafted little putrid poems an added them to the front. Enjoy! Love
carefully!” + (FEB 12) “From: me. To: you. I made a special accessory
subset. Enjoy! Love carefully!” + (FEB 13) “Here’s
the other 5 Accessories. Enjoy!
Love carefully!“
medina11_one_studios
— (FEB 8) “GPK/Topps/Putrid Poetry/out now/here’s
some of my 70 sketches I drew for the series, using different mediums such as
ad markers, Tooli acrylic paint pens, air brush, Olo markers, and more.2024…
had to rush this set do to all my other art work commissions, but still 100% dedicated
to each piece.”
carmen_santaferrara_art
— (FEB 7) “Can’t wait to start sharing the Garbage Pail
Kids sketch cards that I drew for this set! I did 50 of them, which will be randomly
inserted into packages!! Set comes out tomorrow!!”
jasminevictoriacointois
— (FEB 8) “Garbage Pail Kids Putrid Poetry, Valentine’s
Day set, drops today. Here are the sketch cards I did for the set. Sketch cards
are randomly inserted into packs. This set is available later today at topps.com.
Artist returns will be available to purchase in garbage pail kids Facebook group
deal or no deal.”
aaronlaurichart
— (FEB 8) “Topps Launches 2024 Garbage Pail Kids Putrid
Poetry. This set was a lot of fun to work on. I did 50 cards to be inserted into
the packs. Happy to finally be able to share them with you all. I have a couple
returns left that are available for commissions.”
newwavedave14
(David Acevedo) — (FEB 9) “Garbage Pail Kids 2024 Putrid Poetry.”
+ (FEB 14) “GPK Putrid Poetry pack insert Artist sketch cards. For this series
I drew a complete original series 4 gold set. Happy hunting fam!”
victormoreno
— (FEB 5) “I did 70 sketch cards for this set. I also
have return sketches available for this set, as well as Intergoolactic Mayhem
and Kids at Play, DM me if interested.”
artistic_pursuit_studio
(Marion Carole Miller) (FEB 11—14) “[…] I did for the Valentine’s
Day 2024 Putrid Poetry series.”

OWEN OPPENHEIMER: At this
point in the award season, the coronation of Oppenheimer, director Christopher
Nolan, star Cillian Murphy, and costars Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr. feels
almost like a fait accompli. Thankfully, we have GPK here to stir the pot of what
will be a long, drawn out ceremony. The Oscars are garbage.
MALIGNED
MARGOT: All jokes aside, Greta Gerwig was definitely snubbed when the
Oscars committee failed to nominate her for Best Director. But Barbie still
raked in the nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Best Original
Song, among others. Don’t worry, Greta, in our hearts, you’ll always
be Ken-enough.
LOOGIE LENNY: Bradley Cooper’s
prosthetic tour de force, Maestro, earned seven Academy Award nominations,
including Best Picture and Best Actor. Cooper went full method-actor by wearing
a prosthetic nose in an attempt to look more like the biopic’s subject, Leonard
Bernstein. We’re not so sure it was necessary, but it makes for a great boogie
bit on this LOOGIE LENNY card.
WALLEYED PAUL:
Everybody’s favorite rumpled everyman, Paul Giamatti, continues to impress
as the rightful heir to Karl Malden. Sure, we all love Giamatti in quasi-arthouse
fare when he teams up with The Holdovers director Alexander Payne. But
would it kill Giamatti to bring back Mr. X in a sequel to The Nanny Diaries?
B.O.
LEO: Killers of the Flower Moon rolls into the Oscars with 10 total
nominations. In addition to nominations for cinema royalty Robert De Niro and
Martin Scorcese, Killers also saw Lily Gladstone (Best Actress) and Scott
George (Best Original Song) receive the first two Academy Award nominations for
Native Americans. This is all well and good, but has anyone gotten to the bottom
of whether or not the Pioneer Woman’s family really owns all the Osage land?

Within
their set introduction online, for the ‘2023 Topps GPK x MLB Series 3’ release,
the Topps Shop ‘Overview’ CASE & BOX section
stated: “Art By beloved GPK Artist
David Gross • 3 Packs Per Box • 10 Boxes Per Case
• 7 Cards per pack • 5 Base Cards, 1 Numbered Parallel Per Pack and
1 Insert Per Pack (Wrapper, C Name, Artist Card, Artist Autograph)“,
within the ‘Description’ section, “Garbage Pail Kids and Major League
Baseball return for another great collaboration! Now, esteemed artist David Gross
reimagines some of the biggest MLB stars, in his trademark style, as part of the
hilarious Garbage Pail Kids universe. Look out for all the great players, in addition
to a slew of collectible parallels, can’t-miss inserts, and even autographs!
Available only while supplies last, exclusively on Topps.com • Pack Configuration:
7-cards per pack – 5 Base Cards, 1 Numbered Parallel Per Pack and 1 Insert Per
Pack (Wrapper, C Name, Artist Card, Artist Autograph) • Set Configuration:
Base Set (50 subjects) – 25A and 25B Names“, plus,
“All sales are final. Art subject to change. Not responsible for typographical/printer
errors. In an effort to mitigate our carbon footprint, shipments may be grouped
together within the same order.”, and finally, “More Information …
SKU: F24GPBBX10
• SKU:
F24GPBBX01 • Product
Information: Box Includes Three Packs of (7) 2.5″x3.5″ Trading Cards
• 7-cards
per pack – 5 Base Cards, 1 Numbered Parallel Per Pack and 1 Insert Per Pack (Wrapper,
C Name, Artist Card, Artist Autograph) • Product
Type: Online Exclusive Box • Property: Garbage Pail Kids • Year: 2024”
to their ‘Specs’ section.

Topps
sent out an email blast on 03/25/2024 containing an image of the box and three
singles stating “Coming Tomorrow…”, and dropped the above banner ad
to a second email blast on 03/26/2024 and to the front page of their website;
which was up for less than half a day since the product has sold out. Topps also
took to their GPK social media channels to post some card images and state, “THIS
IS ART [emoji]. 2023 Topps GPK x MLB Series 3 has arrived. Available NOW, exclusively
at Topps.com. (Art by beloved GPK artist David Gross )”, however, their official
Topps social media pages had connecting card images as seen below. NOTE:
The ten-pack case sold out in 30 minutes;
the three-pack box sold out in 5 hours. The 3rd Series release had a much higher
production and no artist proofs (only the 1st Series). The set now has two less
parallel inserts from the past release, but 10 extra characters, from 15 to 25;
a few chase inserts were also dropped, like ‘no names’.

On
March 25, 2024, artist DAVID Gross took to social media to post about his new
project, announcing “New GPK X MLB set comes out tomorrow at Topps.com! I
painted all 26 players in the set featuring modern, rookie and retired stars!”,
a follow-up post on March 26, 2024, stating “New Topps Bryce Harper Garbage
Pail Kids X MLB card I painted for the set that dropped today at Topps.com. 25
modern, rookie and HOF players in the set!” (picturing Bell Ringer BRYCE),
and posted an unused concept to Facebook, dated 06/24/2023, with Albert Pujols.
Gross continued to post card images for several weeks after the release posting.

4—9.
Topps took to Facebook on May 15, 2024, to announce their new, six-week release
stating, “GPK GAME OVER. DROPS 5/16. EXCLUSIVELY AT TOPPS.COM”, and
also had the advertisement sheet image added to their email blast on that same
day. On May 16, 2024, Topps send out their daily email blast which also included
a banner image (that has not been posted to their website, as of yet), the ‘pack’
and several card images, and information on the set which stated, “Gamer
Pail Kids is finally here. Your favorite kids are taking over with GAME OVER!
Look for some of your favorite, and least favorite, video game characters come
to life in classic Garbage Pail Kids style. A new set will launch every Thursday
for the next 6 weeks, exclusively on Topps.com”. A second email blast that
included the GAME OVER releases was sent out on May 24, 2024, that advertised
Level 2 for week #2.

Within
the set ‘Description’ section, the Topps Shop, stated, “2024
Topps Garbage Pail Kids: Game Over
Gamer Pail Kids is finally here. Your favorite
kids are taking over with GAME OVER! Look for some of your favorite, and least
favorite, video game characters come to life in classic Garbage Pail Kids style.
A new set will launch every Thursday for the next 6 weeks, exclusively on Topps.com.”
& “All sales are final. Print runs revealed after sales window expires.
Art subject to change. Not responsible for typographical/printer errors.”
Topps also posted ‘More Information’ within their ‘Overview’ & ‘Specs’ sections
that included, “Product Information — Each set contains (11) 2.5″x3.5”
cards = (10) Base Cards PLUS (1) Wrapper
or Gold Foil Wrapper /25. Look for 5 Wrapper Subjects Per week! Product Type:
Set • Property: Garbage Pail Kids • Year: 2024 • Available From:
[Various] • Countdown Timer: [Various] • Available Until: [Various]”


Artists
Brent Engstrom & David Gross created all of the artwork for the six weeks
of online releases. Week #1 was ‘Available
From: May 16, 2024 — Available Until: May 23, 2024′ •
Week #2 was
‘Available From: May 23, 2024 — Available
Until: May 30, 2024’ •
Week #3 was
‘Available From: May 30, 2024 — Available
Until: June 06, 2024’ •
Week #4 was
Available From: June 06, 2024 —
Available Until: June 13, 2024‘ •
Week #5 was
‘ Available From: June 13, 2024 —
Available Until: June 20, 2024‘ •
Week #6 was
‘Available From: June 20, 2024—
Available Until: June 27, 2024‘.