Topps’ Garbage Pail Kids, the
1980s sensation, will have readers squirming with delight this winter as the
obscene adolescents star in a brand-new comic-book series from IDW Publishing.
With the likes of Adam Bomb, Leaky Lindsay, and New
Wave Dave populating the Garbage Pail Kids universe, the
delightfully deformed and often downright disgusting Kids are set to
make their mark on the world of comics, just in time for their 30th Anniversary
in 2015!
“As a child of the Eighties, I
was at ground zero for the Garbage Pail Kids phenomenon,” series editor Denton
J. Tipton said. “The profoundly irreverent stickers spoke directly to the
rascal inside each and every one of my classmates, and helped us drive our
teachers to the brink of insanity. I couldn’t be more happy to be working with some
of the giants of alternative comics to push the buttons of an entirely new
generation of educators, many of which likely remember when the poo-covered
sneaker was on the other foot.”
Created by Pulitzer
Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman and a group of avant garde
humorists including Mark Newgarden, John Pound, Tom Bunk and others, the
Garbage Pail Kids debuted in 1985 from Topps, as the furor for trading
cards was at an all-time high. Like MAD Magazine and Topps’ own Wacky
Packages before it, Garbage Pail Kids succeeded as a tongue-in-cheek
send-up of pop culture, depicting quite the opposite of the “cute” approach to
all-ages entertainment of the day.
“Having grown up with GPK and
sharing my name with the flagship character, I can say it’s no small honor to
help shepherd the Garbage Pail Kids into their first ever comic book,”
said Topps’ Adam Levine, Head of Outbound Licensing. “It’s going to be a real
treat to see our friends at IDW flesh out the world of the Garbage Pail Kids
so that after 30 years we can finally find out who all of these weird
little guys are.”
Hate cartoonist Peter Bagge, who provided the initial
image of all-new character Comic-Con Ron, will be a part of the new
series, planned as an anthology of loosely connected stories by a variety of
talented creators from around the industry, including some of Topps’ official
“GPK” artists. Be sure to stay tuned to facebook.com/idwpublishing
and the Official Garbage Pail Kids Facebook page (www.facebook.com/GarbagePailKids)
for a full creative-team announcement and additional information in the coming
months!
