UPDATED : MAY 6TH, 2013
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MINIKINS GPK FIGURINE & STICKER SET -- OCTOBER 2013 RELEASE -- PREVIEW BELOW

OS1 CHROME GPK SET -- AUGUST 2013 RELEASE -- PREVIEW BELOW

STRANGE KIDS CLUB'S GPK MULTI-MONTH EVENT -- LINK BELOW

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THE FRENCH 'LES CRADOS' (GPK) BOOK -- UNDER GPK*LAND; ABRAMS BOOK; GPK HISTORY SECTION -- LINK BELOW

2014 GPK ABRAMS CALENDAR - 4 BONUS STICKERS -- AMAZON LINK BELOW

THE 'AFA' LETTER THAT HELPED CANCEL THE 80's GPK CARTOON -- OS8 SECTION

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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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GPK ORIGINAL SERIES 1 CHROME SET



AUGUST 2013 RELEASE

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STRANGE KIDS CLUB GPK-PALOOZA!

(Click Image to Visit SKC Website)

A MULTI-MONTH EVENT : SECOND UP - ORIGINAL GPK MOVIE CONCEPT (APRIL FOOLS)

A MULTI-MONTH EVENT : FIRST UP - BNS2 REVIEW

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ABRAMS 2014 GPK CALENDAR



PRE-ORDER : AVAILABLE IN AUGUST

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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). 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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ORIGINAL SERIES
GPK SETS : 1985 - 1988

ALL-NEW SERIES
GPK SETS : 2003 - 2007




FLASHBACK
GPK SETS : 2010 - 2011


BRAND-NEW SERIES
GPK SET : 2012

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