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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 Berg, Bennett, Chet Darnstaedter (Xno), 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 several "all-new" GPK sets over the next several years through 2010, plus a Flashback set with orginal GPK artwork. Art directed originally by John Williams (who became the supervising editor) and later by Jeff Zapata (series editor, concept artist and writer), 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 series' 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, and concept artists Mark Pingitore, Fred Wheaton (one artwork front), Mark MacAulay and several artists listed above. So far, seven "all-new" series sets have been released to date.

Besides the 24 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, Posters set, interviews, articles, wrapper and box charts, and other unique sections. 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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