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According to James Warhola’s Case
Study in dinosuars for cards 425a DENNY Saur and 425b RIP Tile a thumbnail
sketch shows the Kid and a note by Warhola that the urine should be ‘very green
pee’. James would oftentimes meet up with Art Spiegelman, who also lived in New
York, to go over concepts in person over food and drink. The character in the
boat scenerio, riding the wave of pee, stayed in the scene from start to finish.
Spiegelman questioned whether the urine should be green or blue; as the color
rough demonstrates, the color blue was chosen and the dinasuar was initially the
color green. Spiegelman also noted that one of the buildings should look like
a fire hydrant (a canine gag) and the building does take this form for the final
artwork. In the end, the dinasuar Kid became a brown and flesh-colored ‘reptile’
where the tail is not in view and the character’s face became cheerful.

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The GPK Flick It!
section artwork on the reverse card backs emulates a flipbook-style effect was
completed by artist Richard McGuire. The Puzzle Puke
artwork on the back of the cards was completed artist Jay Lynch who finished the
written gags, color roughs, and the final artwork assisted by artist and friend
Gary Whitney.

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Pictured below is a John Pound Color
Rough and sample for cards 419a MEG-A-Volt and 419b Charged MARGE. Since
very few unrevised thumbnail sketches by Pound have been available to the public
there are very few changes, if any, that can be found between the tight pencil,
color rough and final artwork since they are photocopied and colored and painted
over. Also pictured below is the Pencil Art for cards
458a Dental Hy GENE and 458b RUDY Canal; since John Pound uses a scan from the
pencil artwork to create the later color rough and final artwork, the pencil art
can be seen with the title of the character backwards, and the artwork reversed
before the revision. The new title can be seen re-written as ‘PULLING
TOOTH + SKELETON‘, whereas the original title was ‘PULLING
TOOTH, SKELETON‘.

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Newcomer Artist
James Bennett joined the GPK ranks by completing the artwork for cards 426a Quenching
QUINCY and 426b Squirtin’ BURTON. Bennett would go on to paint additional artwork
for the OS12 set.

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The same café environment used within
the 1986 GPK Poster Set, for poster #1 Drink
Garbage Pail Kola, is found within the OS11 cards 422a SHERI Cola and 422b
All-Night DINAH—both painted by John Pound picturing the same toilet-drink
and contents, tablecloth, booth, window curtain and the girl’s clothes and ribbon
style. Only the corner of the ‘HOUSE SPECIAL‘ sign is shown
in the card background which now reads ‘SODAS‘ instead.

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According to the Color
Rough completed by artist James Warhola the type of Frisbee used for the
artwork was in question, the notation — a ‘razor sharp / maybe sawblade or
just (a) regular Frisbee?’ can be seen on the artwork as feedback from Topps.
A normal Frisbee was chosen in the end, pretty much the same type as the color
rough and the Kid’s clothing changed a bit with a ‘GPK’ acronym added to the baseball
cap. The nomenclature for cards 437a Sliced BRAD and 437b Dead LEE was used as
suggested by the artist.

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This would be the only GPK release where
the Uncut Sheet format was changed from a more archaic
Topps set layout of 88 x 176 (8 columns x 11 rows) for the first production run
to the regular 132 x 264 sheet (11 columns x 12 rows) for the second production
run. Thanks to Lonnie Cummins for the additional information on the uncut sheet
variations.

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GPK Flowcharts
were created for the later sets which showed the art director how the progress
of the new set was going. It displayed what artist was working on which concept
piece and the stage in which the painting had been completed. Oftentimes, concept
pieces were denied and the department tried to work them into later sets. A list
of additional concept pieces was located at the bottom of the flowchart in case
pieces could not be used. The OS11 set contained the following ideas which either
replaced denied concept pieces within the set, were saved for a later series or
never saw the light of day: bagpipe (OS15), justice and scales, Nancy Reagan,
kid as mop (Trash Can Trolls), VCR (OS15), mace steele head (OS11), hand puppet
pet (OS15), flexing muscle – head as muscle (unpublished Bill Wray concept), Jack-in-the-box
assassin.