Garbage Pail Kids (Topps)

Great memories, quite a few good laughs!!!

This a fun book but there is only a few pages of textual information. This is more of a picture book which showcases the first couple of series. All the pages are in color and the images are bright and crisp. the book also came with four sticker cards. I really like how the dust jacket feels like a card wrapper and if you remove the jacket there is a picture of a stick of gum on the book. I like how the people involved seemed to be having fun with the project. This is a great book for looking at the card's artwork. This is not a reading type of book. Its more like a picture book for adults. I also liked the book is small, not big oversized like those coffee table picture book. its like eight inches tall so it fits on a shelf with no problem. I really hope they have more volumes.

Great collection of all the Garbage Pail Kids cards I never found! In a very tiny 7.5" x 6" sized book. For $20, I thought it might be 8 x 10, but this compact size is practical and good enough for such a cool book of illustrations. I still remember being a kid going to the retail deli or stores and being excited to see what new Garbage Pail Kids cards I got that time, sorting through them while eating the brittle piece of cheap, plain bubble gum that was included. The cards were always top quality with excellent illustrations of lots of imaginative, creative and comical characters meant to be offensive in a variety of styles, which made them even funnier and more valuable to collect. This book captures that fun in each page illustration (though you don't get to read the back of the cards). Relive the fun with all the cards in this book, goes up to the 5th series of the first run collection.

My parents would not let me buy Garbage Pail Kids stickers when I was growing up. Consequently, I was fascinated by them. Anything my parents didn't want me to have - GPK, Big League Chew, Stephen King books - must've been really amazing. I saw this book featured on TV last week and knew I had to have it, if for no other reason than to gratify the child-of-the-80s in me who lusted after these sticker cards from afar. Garbage Pail Kids was a spoof of the Cabbage Patch kids produced by Topps, and created by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Holocaust graphic novel, Maus. They were irreverent, creative, and really, really gross. Now, Abrams ComicArts and Spiegelman have released a hardcover book showcasing the first five of the 15 series produced by Topps. Each card, 206 in all, is given its own page, scanned from the original art, nice and big to give you a better glimpse than you've ever had of these truly beautifully disgusting kids. A very nice, informative introduction by Spiegelman and an afterword by artist John Pound round out the book. It's a very nicely-produced book, with many very clever touches. The dust jacket is made from the same waxy material the card packs were originally wrapped in. The actual boards feature a minimalistic photo of the chalk-like gum stick that came in every pack. Four rare, never-before-released cards are included, as well. I have only two complaints. One is that the card backs are not included, apparently not considered to be of the same artistic merit as the card faces. I tend to think they were an equally important part of what made GPK great, so they are missed. My other complaint is that the book features only the first 5 series - 1/3 of the total art produced. These complaints are enough to knock off a half-star, but I've given a 5-star rating out of respect for Spiegelman and in the hopes that a positive reaction from the masses is enough to compel Topps and Abrams to release additional volumes. I would love to eventually have the full set on my shelf. Then I can finally thumb my nose at my parents and my inner child will sleep soundly for the first time.

The book itself is small. About 5x7” and only has one card per image (usually a not b), and only covers through series 5. The cover sounded cool but is kind of flimsy. Limited accompanying text. Still cool though.

Great book,the enlarged pictures look fantastic.well worth the sale price which I paid. It is still worth the regular price.

The book is small, but it is and feels really well made, I love how the sleeve is made from the same paper used on the card packaging and overall it feels like it was made with care. It came with a few stickers attached at the back so it comes with a fun bonus. My only complaint would be that they placed the images that are in landscape orientation rotated to fit the portrait orientation but made them much smaller, so most images are fairly big covering most of the page but these are almost as small as the stickers showing a lot of blank page, I would have preferred to rotate the book to look at those at the same size of the rest of the book instead of having a tiny version fitted in an opposing orientation, that was quite a bad decision I hope they fix in any following volumes in the future.

This is just like having all the complete first 5 series in one book. Every page shows each exact card in exact order with full color including a full color picture of each wax pack at the beginning of each series. The slip cover for the front is even almost a direct copy of the first series wax pack cover and designed with material that makes it feel almost like a wax pack, it's like your opening a pack of garbage pails but only bigger, then if you look under the slip cover the hardback is green and has what looks like a copy of the stick of gum inside and on the back cover has the same stick but looks as if it was all broken up just like some packs in the 80s really was, then it will walk you through with an introduction by one of the two original artists and each chapter begins with a full color page of the actual pack for that series and takes you through each card and the end of the book is some final notes from the other original artist and the final grand finale is at the end of the book you will find a pack of garbage pail kids from the "lost series". Originally made in the 80s but not released because it was to offensive at the time. Get this book.