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The following Unpublished
piece by artist Tom Bunk was finished in 1987 and was intended for the OS8
Garbage Pail Kids set. The punk ‘Kid’ middle finger artwork was completed but
was never published with the spiked hair being changed drastically between the
concept and color rough pieces. This may have been an internal, tongue-in-cheek
artwork nod to the OAA vs. Topps lawsuit results.

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Writers Jay Lynch and Art Spiegelman
completed the gags for the reverse card GPK Comics
artwork. Artist Jay Lynch also worked on the Bazooka Joe-like comic backs
by working on the pencil roughs while Howard Cruse completed the final artwork.
Some comics were possible left-over pieces from the OS6 comic backs.

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The GPK Concept
for cards 1a Nasty NICK and 1b Evil EDDIE, created by Mark Newgarden, which displays
a Dracula character biting into a Barbie-esque doll; artwork completed by artist
John Pound. The original ‘Dracula Kid’ concept artwork by Pound showed dracula
arising from slumber and sitting within his coffin, which contains a fun ‘Jack
in the Box’ pun and a nice Translvania backdrop (see the OS1 ‘GPK History’ section);
the overall dark outline gave it a very Wacky Packages feel, the Topps franchise
from which the GPK brand was born. The discarded Vanitas-like candle and
skull in the concept, painted by John Pound, can be found in this set on cards
328A Glowing AMBER and 328B Bright DWIGHT; where the candle/fire represent life/time
and the skull represents death, orginally intended for the OS7 release.

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Artist Tom Bunk always supplied
a variety of different renditions for for his Color Roughs, be it through
art direction or on his own. Below are examples of these various color versions
that can be compared to the actual final artwork for cards 293A Explorin’ NORMAN
and 293B Drillin’ DYLAN and cards 309A Heartless HAL and 309B BOWEN Arrow.

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The image
from the GPK Poster set #18 BUSTED! painted by artist
John Pound is used for the OS5 through OS8 retail ad posters with an enlarged,
straight Garbage Pail Kids banner at the bottom. The original poster contains
a much smaller Garbage
Pail Kids banner.
Whereas the OS5 retail poster
is yellow, the ‘NEW’ pink color of the OS6 and OS7 retail posters has stayed the
same for the OS8 retail poster, but now contains a huge white box; basically a
lazy move of covering up the OS7 information.

AS
CAN BE DISCERNED FROM L-R, FROM THE ‘SCHOOL’ SIGN TO THE GROUND:
45a Leaky Lindsay & 45b Messy TESSIE, 27a Brainy JANIE & 27b JENNY Genius,
49a Double Heather, 49b Schizo FRAN/FRAN FRAN, 30a New Wave DAVE & 30b Graffiti
PETEY, 8a ADAM Bomb & 8b Blasted BILLY, 73a Gorgeous GEORGE & 73b Dollar
BILL, 3a Up CHUCK & 3b Heavin’ STEVEN, 83a Ugh LEE & 83b Sumo SID,
77a Ghastley ASHLEY & 77b Acne AMY, 54a Fryin’ RYAN & 54b Charred CHAD,
79a Sewer SUE & 79b MICHELLE Muck, 74a MARK Bark & 74b Kennel KENNY, 57a
TOMMY Gun & 57b Dead FRED, 67a Phony LISA & 67b MONA Loser, 43a Smelly
KELLY & 43b DOUG Plug, 44a SY CLOPS & 44b One-Eyed JACK, 66a MATT Ratt
& 66b RACHEL Rodent, 62a Greaser GREG & 62b CHRIS Hiss, 5a Dead TED &
5b JAY Decay, 65a Shrunken ED & 65b Cheeky CHARLES, 42a PATTY Putty &
42b Muggin’ MEGAN, 18a Cranky FRANKIE & 18b Bad BRAD, 75a Off-The-Wall PAUL
& 75b ZACH Plaque, 46a Rappin’ RON & 46b RAY Gun, 4a Fryin’ BRIAN &
4b Electric BILL, 39a Buggy BETTY & 39b Green JEAN, 41a Mean GENE & 41b
Joltin’ JOE, and 40a Unstitched MITCH & 40b Damaged DON.

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The poster image can also be found
as card #14 BUSTED! from the GIANT GPK card set with
the original curved Garbage
Pail Kids header rather
than the straight Garbage
Pail Kids banner at
the bottom. In both the posters and card, along with various award and license
card backs, there are several OS1 and OS2 characters found throughout the image.

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In
1987, after the release of the OS8 GPK set, CBS Inc. was ready to premier the
Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon on Saturday morning.
Cartoon cells were created by Geof Darrow for the main cast of characters —
although there were tons of extras; the cartoon cells were later auctioned off
on eBay. The 13 episodes of the Paramount GPK cartoon were released on DVD for
the first time in April of 2006; the episodes are broken down into two main segments,
a Loony Toons-type section and a Scooby-Doo detective like section — with
the main GPK cast with their regular and hidden identities, along with various
breaks such as a ‘GPK Award’ and ‘Would We Lie To You?’ breaks. The main cartoon
cast is comprised of the following characters: OS2 cards 81a Split KIT and 81b
Mixed-Up MITCH, OS2 cards 42a PATTY Putty and 42b Muggin’ MEGAN, OS6 cards 213a
OTTO Whack and 213b ELLIOT Mess, OS5 cards 169a DEE Faced and 169b TERRI Cloth
— with OS6 cards 235a Ugly
HANS and 235b JAN Hand attached and OS2 59a Clogged DUANE and 59b Bye Bye BOBBIE.

Characters
with their regular and hidden-identity images:

Additional
characters during the various opening sequences:

Cast
of faculty characters: Preston Purgation, Sylvia Censor, Squeaky Clean + Simon
Scour:

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There were also GPK sculpted
Figurines modeled after the cartoon characters
that Galoob Toys intended to release. The figurines contained the main GPK Cartoon
cast plus various other characters used during the opening sequence, et cetera:
OS2 cards 63a Spacey STACY and 63b Planet Janet, OS4 cards 129a Second Hand ROSE
and 129b Trashed TRACY, OS5 cards 203a Toothie RUTHIE and 203b Dental FLOSSIE,
OS2 cards 79a Sewer SUE and 79b MICHELLE Muck, OS4 cards 138a Alien IAN and 138b
Outerspace CHASE, OS6 cards 233a WES Mess and 233b Trash-Can KEN and OS3 cards
113a ALICE Island and 113b Liberty LIBBY. However, after the cartoon was shelved
in part due to the American Family Association’s (‘AFA’) efforts against CBS to
stop the GPK Cartoon by Topps, the toy figures were also shelved and not released.
The AFA Letter and the protest against CBS and its
sponsers can be located below, supplied by collector Travis Tierno.

‘CLICK’
Image to View the Complete AFA Letter Campaign:

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Large
GPK Flowcharts were created for the releases
after the OS4 set which showed the Mark Newgarden, the GPK editor at the time,
how the work 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. Often,
concept pieces were denied and the department tried to work them into later sets.
A list of additional concept pieces was found at the bottom of the flowchart in
case pieces could not be used. The OS8 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: Mickey Mouse (OS16), elephant nose / sneezing,
out of waffle iron (OS8), fortune cookie (OS13), piñata (TCT), head
as cereal bowl – all brain cereal (OS9), fireman – flames (OS9), garbage out of
shower (OS8), oil slick, hand puppet (OS8), staples, haunted tree, porcupine (TCT),
Samurai, justice with scales, split like log with axe, GPK kangaroo shooting mother
(unpublished for OS), iron maiden, cigar (OS8), bloody nose – drawing in blood,
punch bag – long neck (OS8), nuclear fart (worked into OS7), teeth for eyes (OS12
– but removed from picture), in dungeon (unpublished).