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NON-FLASHY, NON-COMPETITIVE, NON-TECH SAVVY WEBSITE—BEST VIEWED ON A PC ![]() 2021 MASCOT ARTWORK BY ARTIST MARK PINGITORE — AFTER POUND ![]() NO PART OF THIS WEBSITE MAY BE COPIED, EXHIBITED, OR OTHERWISE USED WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSIONS OF THE AUTHOR/GPKWORLDAN ANNOTATED GPK REFERENCE GUIDE FOR GEEKS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS ARCHIVIST, CURATOR & HISTORIAN FOR OVER 25 YEARS EXEC. PRODUCER ON THE 30 YEARS OF GARBAGE DOCUMENTARY NOTE: ONLY ON INSTAGRAM— KEEPING IT OLD SCHOOL — MOSTLY OFF-THE-GRID UPDATES 2025 = 40TH GPK ANNIVERSARY~ LASTEST
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Artists John Pound (who worked with acrylics and airbrushing), the GPK
In 2003, the Topps The continued GPK craze is comprised of veteran artists John Pound,
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EMAIL EXCERPTS:
“I just do roughs and others do the finished art. I did the final art for the comic backs of the GPK cards–but I did roughs of them first. Send me your address, and I will start sending you xeroxes.” — Lynch. December 1999 “Hi. Regarding the interview, you must clear it with Monte Beauchamp of BLAB, there were some edits & exclusions in the interview I wasn’t so happy with at the time so if he says yes send me a copy so I can clarify any points. (I was one of a team of talented people who brought you GPKS as you know.) MN” — Newgarden. January 05, 2001 “The INTRO info about me sounds mostly correct. I also did concept sketches for several hundred GPKs, as did Art and Mark. I didn’t know Bill Wray had done any GPK fronts. Do you know which ones? I thought Tom Bunk did the art for the early backs, not Mark Newgarden? Here’s Tom Bunks email…” — Pound. January 09, 2003 “Thanks for your friendly email and for your interest in the GPKs. I’ve checked your website and there is a lot of information and I will gladly supply you with more, especially information concerning my role. During that time I was in Brooklyn at Topps every week, hanging around Art and Mark, Lenny and Stan, etc. It was hectic, exciting, quite stressful, but a lot of fun. I also took part in many other Topps projects… Anyway, I’ll write to you more in the next few days, right now it’s already past midnight…” — Bunk. January 10, 2003 “I did one for Art… I believe it was a kid in a football uniform. Maybe he was kicking a football that made his leg shatter? PS, I’d love the card if you can find an extra!” — Wray. January 12, 2003 “I worked on GPK with Mark and Art for about a year. In that time I did about 90. I have no list to send you but I certainly would recognize the art if there are any that you have a question about. Send those anyway that is convenient, it’s very easy for me to say yea or nay” — Warhola. February 03, 2003 “In the past year, I’ve made less than a grand from Topps for doing Topps stuff. I haven’t had any work from them since last summer. I haven’t heard anything about a new GPK series coming out. Somehow, I don’t think they could put such a thing together now. Do any of the old GPK guys know anything about this? Howard Cruse did many GPK backs too.” — Lynch. March 02, 2003 “Thanks for thinking of me and dropping in on my site. I enjoyed visiting your site, too. It brings back lots of memories. My contribution to the Garbage Pail Kids saga was doing the drawings for the backs of [the] “Giant” cards.” — Cruse. March 03, 2003 “I have all the official flow charts we kept that recorded who was doing what on what, when it was due etc. that would help put the big puzzle together… If you are ever in NYC you’re welcome to comb thru it with me for clues but honestly it’s too big a job to take on without a gun pointed straight at my head or an enthusiastic researcher knocking at the door…” — Newgarden. March 20, 2003
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