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Garbage Pail Kids: 40th Anniversary Edition

by The Topps Company

A visual archive of the first five Garbage Pail Kids series

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A visual archive of the first five Garbage Pail Kids series

This anniversary edition gathers all 206 images from the first five Garbage Pail Kids series, alongside four new bonus stickers. The collection traces the cards’ comic send-up of the sugary Cabbage Patch Kids craze of the 1980s, bringing together work associated with Art Spiegelman, Mark Newgarden, John Pound, Tom Bunk, Jay Lynch, and James Warhola. An introduction by Spiegelman and an afterword by Pound add context to the images. With its emphasis on reproducing the cards as a collection, the book also serves as a compact look at a distinctive piece of 1980s pop-culture history.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Collectors seeking images from Garbage Pail Kids Series 1–5 in one volume
  • Fans of the artists named in the collection
  • Readers interested in 1980s pop culture and parody collectibles

Themes

Collecting and visual ephemeraParody and popular culture1980s toy and card culture

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Book overview

The cards you loved as much as your mom hated them--the Garbage Pail Kids--collected in one comprehensive, beautifully designed package!

​Garbage Pail Kids features all 206 rare and hard-to-find images from Series 1 through 5, as well as a set of four all-new bonus stickers created especially for the 40th anniversary.

Garbage Pail Kids is guaranteed to appeal to die-hard collectors as well as a new generation of fans. One of the backlist staples of the ComicArts list, this book was originally published in 2012 and is now celebrated with this handsome 40th anniversary edition.

A series of collectible stickers produced by Topps, ​Garbage Pail Kids were designed to parody the overly saccharine Cabbage Patch Kids, a toy doll fad in the 1980s.

This outrageous series was the brainchild of legendary cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who, in collaboration with artists Mark Newgarden, John Pound, Tom Bunk, Jay Lynch, and James Warhola, created a pop-culture phenomenon.

The book includes a introduction by Spiegelman and an afterword by Pound.
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