Fifteen
1985 OS1 card characters, by artist John Pound, and fifteen 2022S1 Book Worms
card characters, by various artists, were used within the 2022 International Trading
Card Day (“ITCD”) set.
The same fifteen bookworm images were also used for artist autograph cards (#/100)
within the special event release.

Per August 02, 2022, article
by Global Licensing:
In tandem with Topps’ International Trading Card
Day Aug. 6, global retailer, Lids, has announced a new retail distribution partnership
with the card company. Lids will now sell Topps’ various trading card products
in select Lids retail stores throughout the U.S.
“Topps
is thrilled to partner with Lids for the first International Trading Card Day,”
says Wendy Freedman, marketing director, Topps. “It’s a great way celebrate
the hobby and also introduce new fans to collecting.”
Collectors
can now visit participating Lids stores to shop for their choice of a pack of
MLB, UEFA Champions League, Star Wars and Garbage Pail Kids cards. Topps offerings
are currently available in 300+ Lids stores across the U.S., with plans to expand
to 500+ Lids stores throughout the country by this fall.
“Topps is one
of the premier card companies and we’re thrilled to be partnering with them
to offer our consumers the opportunity to purchase more novelty items in Lids
stores,” says Britten Maughan, president, Lids. “Lids is known as the
preeminent sports retailer, and we’re consistently focused on providing an
exciting and diverse assortment of products and apparel. This partnership allows
us to do just that while also catering to a new audience of card collectors.”

Previously
known as the Topps National Baseball Card Day, from 2016—2021, and catering
only to the MLB®, the special giveaway day became the Topps International
Trading Card Day (“ITCD”) in 2022, by introducing UEFA Champions League®
and their own Garbage Pail Kids® IP to the lineup, and adding then adding
Formula 1®, Athletes Unlimited®, and Bowman U Football cards to the mix
for 2023. As the release sheet states, “Any collector who purchases $10 or
more of Topps or Bowman products on August 5th will receive an exclusive Mike
Trout card.” and “Those who return on August 12th and spend another
$10 or more will receive an exclusive Adley Rutschman card!” NOTE: the release
sheet erroneously shows the curved Garbage Pail Kids® logo as the GPK trademark,
instead of the banner.

Topps
ran a sponsered video advert on social channels prior to the August 5th release.
Collector friend ‘Packy’ mentioned, “The mother offers her broccoli and she
pouts, so she gives her some GPK to make her happy.” NOTE: the trading cards
and packs within the mini commercial are all Chrome OS5 cards.
Five
new pieces of artwork were created, a trading-card themed subset, including the
one pictured above and below, ten 1985 OS2 card characters, all mainly John Pound
tribute pieces & one pulled from a future (not yet announced) GPK set, and
fifteen 2023S1 GPK Go On Vacation card characters, by various artists, were used
within the 2023 International Trading Card Day (“ITCD”) set.
The same fifteen ‘Vacation’ images were also used for artist autograph cards (#/10)
within the special event release. NOTE: like with the first release, the character
images are really zoomed-in on.

Artist
DAVID Gross has posted a previous concept for his one
of his new artwork pieces for the set prior to the release, and after the released
mentioned, “I wanted the card to look like a damaged card so here’s a pic
of what I wanted it to appear as. I scraped the paper, drew on it in pen and damaged
the actual painting to get the look.” It’s a hard concept to get across when
the player themselves is ‘downgraded’ looking; it’s the card, not the player that’s
getting graded for PSA, plus, Topps has zoomed in on every character for the release.