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MINIKINS GPK FIGURINE & STICKER SET — OCTOBER 2013 RELEASE — PREVIEW
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GLOW
IN THE DARK ARTWORK BY PAT BARRETT — ADDED TO BNS2 “ARTWORK”
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THE
‘AFA’ LETTER THAT HELPED CANCEL THE 80’s GPK CARTOON — OS8 SECTION

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BNS3
GARBAGE PAIL KIDS

OCTOBER 2013 RELEASE
HOBBY BOX MOCK UP : NEW ARTWORK SNEAK
PEEK

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MINIKINS
GPK FIGURINE & STICKER SET

OCTOBER 2013 RELEASE
A 2-PACK or 4-PACK (3 BLIND &
1 PICTURED) OPTION
ALSO, 4 COLLECTABLE VARIANTS – BLUE (1:3), RED (1:3), GREEN (1:4), or
YELLOW (1:12)

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2014
SERIS 1 GARBAGE PAIL KIDS


EARLY 2014 RELEASE
HOBBY BOX MOCK UP : NEW ARTWORK SNEAK
PEEK

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GARBAGE PAIL KIDS

Garbage
Pail Kids were created by the Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. in 1985 by Mark Newgarden
and Art Spiegelman, both were art directors and editors for the series,
who came up with the concept art (with several hundred concept sketches
done by John Pound) and named the characters for the 16 series of GPK. Later,
the naming panel also included Len Brown and Stan Hart, with suggestions
by the artists, writers and even last minute name changes by Arthur Shorin,
the then Pres. of Topps. Artists such as John Pound (acrylic and airbrush)
and Tom Bunk (gouache and airbrush), both who completed around 90% of the
finished art, were commissioned to create the final art for the card fronts,
later joined with James Warhola (oils), David Burke, Bennett, Chet Darnstaedter
(Xno), Mae Jeon and Bill Wray (one artwork front). Card backs were drawn
by Tom Bunk, Jay Lynch, Howard Cruse, and Richard McGuire who animated the
“Flick It” section of the later series. The writing on several
different GPK series card backs were from older Topps sets rendered and
written by Mark Newgarden, later writers also included Art Spiegelman, Jay
Lynch, and John Mariano. Other individuals who assisted by penciling, inking,
coloring, or doing lettering were Carole Sobocinski, Grass Green, and Javi
Soler. Still others contributed ideas and sketches and such as Len Brown,
Frank Santopadre (writer), Stephen Kroninger, Bob Sikoryak, and Paul Karasik.
These terribly gifted collaborators made Garbage Pail Kids the most hyped
and talked about craze in non-sport card history.

In the late summer
of 2003, Topps took advantage of the increasingly nostalgic craze for 1980’s
games and toys and released seven all-new GPK sets over the next several
years through 2011, plus three Flashback sets with orginal GPK artwork content
(including ‘lost’ and ‘all-new’ material), and a rejuvinated brand-new GPK
sets through 2013 with a nostaglic GPK feel, and a chrome technoloy release.
Art directed originally by John Williams (who became the supervising editor),
then by Jeff Zapata (series senior editor, concept artist and writer, sketch
card artist), and later by Colin Walton (editor, concept artist and writer,
motion card animator, sketch card artist), the new GPK craze is comprised
of veteran GPK artists’ John Pound, Tom Bunk, James Warhola, Frank Santopadre,
and Jay Lynch (who supplied concept and card back artwork – along with Scott
Shaw). The sets also includes newcomer GPK artists David Gross, Luis Diaz,
Strephon Taylor, John Czop, Pat Glover, Sean Glover, Chris Hebel, Keith
Webb, Aron Laikin, Sean Greathead, John Cebollero, Claude St. Aubin, Mark
Sparacio, George Wright, Justin Green, Don Perlin, Layron DeJarnette, Brent
Engstrom, John Zeleznik, Fred Harper, Jason Edmiston, Mark Pingitore, Fred
Wheaton, Neil Camera, Joe Simko, (the first female freelance GPK artist)
Junghwa Im, Pat Barrett; including concept art by Mark MacAulay, and concept
art from various artists listed above and by collectors.

Besides the 27 U.S.
Garbage Pail Kids series below (one unpublished), further down you will
find the GPK~World category which contains various international
sets released in other countries – that reflects mainly my own collection
or examples of the sets and a GPK~Land category containing other
U.S. sets such as the Giant Stickers, Magnet set, Posters set, interviews,
articles, wrapper and box charts, and other unique items. In each series
section you will find: a Series Introduction explaining the release,
a Product Overview outlining the packaging and promotional materials,
an Artwork Images section displaying the original final artwork,
a Fun Facts & Tid-Bits area which states
interesting information about the set, a GPK 101 : Annotated Names
section which in depthly explains the name given to the character, a GPK
History Section containing information before the set was released,
and a Comprehensive Checklist that lists all the cards associated
with the set including variations, errors, etc.

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~ JAY LYNCH

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You?! ~ NEIL CAMERA

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