GetAGrip today launched their third and final week of Garbage Pail Kids Chrome Discraft Buzzz discs. The discs are based off of artwork from the Art of Rory insert set in GPK Chrome 7. Today’s discs feature the characters Stair Casey and Manny Heads. Discs are limited to /50 and can be purchased from GetAGrip’s website for $34.99.
Bullairs Launches Four New GPK T-shirts
Bullairs continues their assault of your GPK wardrobe the last couple of days. The company has launched four new Garbage Pail Kids t-shirts. Yesterday they launched three Valentine’s related shirts. The shirts all use artwork that previously appeared in some Valentine’s sets with characters Adam Bomb, Bony Tony, and Alien Ian. Then today the company launched a GPK shirt as part of their Red Sonja line with a previous GPK parody. All shirts are available from S-5XL and are priced at $35 each. You can preorder the shorts now from Bullairs website. There is no estimated shipping time listed yet on these items.
Topps Launches 2026 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine’s Day
Update: Topps today launched 2026 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine’s Say set. Topps released the missing info left out of their teaser page from last week. Both single box and cases options weee offered at 2:00 PM EST. Cases showed sold out immediately, while single boxes sold out within five minutes. Box structure was must like last year’s Valentine’s set. Boxes contain three 8-card packs, while cases contain 10 boxes. Boxes were priced at $60, and cases at $600. Each pack has 6 base cards, 1 red heart parallel, and one “hit”. A hit can be a sketch card, foil parallel, C Name, GPK Comic, or Black Heart variation.
Topps also released odds for the set. You can find the odds in PDF here. Sketch odds remained the same as last year at 1:9 packs (1:3 boxes). Based on the parallel odds there should be 13,850 packs, or 4,616 boxes available, making production up slightly over the 2025 Valentine’s set. Topps also revealed the sketch artist checklist. A total of 29 artists did sketches for the set. All were GPK veterans, no rookies this time. You can find the artist checklist on PDF here. Base card artwork was done by Brent Engstrom, Joe Simko, David Gross, Joe McWilliams, Neil Camera, and Mike Stephens.
Is that love in the air, or just garbage? Today, Topps announced their 2026 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine’s Day online set. The yearly tradition continues. The blending of online and hobby sets continues as for the first time, Topps has posted a teaser page on their website for the upcoming set. The website advertises there will be a 50 card set, 25 new characters with a/b versions. Much like past Valentine’s sets, there will be parallels and inserts to collect as well. The base cards will have parallels versions in Red Heart (Unnumbered), Pink Heart Foil (/50), Baby Blue Heart (/25), Yellow Heart (/10), Black Heart (/5), and Gold Heart (1/1). Inserts will be C names (25 cards), GPK Comics (10 Cards), and Black Heart Variations (10 Cards). Topps also mentions there will be sketch cards. Topps did not reveal how the cards are being distributed, but collectors should assume they will be in packs. Topps did upload the checklist to their website already for the set, you can also view it here. No odds or pricing has been revealed yet. The set goes on sale on Topps’ website next Thursday, 2/12/26 at 2:00 PM EST, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
GetAGrip Launches Two More Garbage Pail Kids Discraft Buzzz Discs
GetAGrip is back today with the second week of new Garbage Pail Kids Discraft Buzzz discs. The discs are based off of artwork from the Chrome 7 Art by Rory set. This weeks discs are Haley Comet and Have a Nice Dave. Discs are limited to /50 each. They can be purchased for $34.99 from GetAGrip’s website. Hurry as these won’t last long!
GetAGrip Launches New Garbage Pail Kids Discraft Discs
GetAGrip today got their 2026 launches started with a new line of Discraft Buzzz discs. Today begins three weeks of disc drops from the company. Today’s discs feature artwork from Rory McQueen that was used in the Chrome 7 Art by Rory insert set. The two new discs feature McQueen’s artwork for Homer Runt and Barfin Barbara. Discs are limited to /50 and can be purchased for $34.99 each. The discs can be purchased at GetAGrip’s website. The company says discs are in stock and ready to ship.
Bull Airs Launches Preorders for Expanded Garbage Pail Kids Lineup
Bull Airs, the custom sneaker company, is back in the Garbage Pail Kids world with an expanded lineup of not only shoes, but a complete clothing line and more. The company today launched preorders for one of the largest licensed GPK launches ever. Last year the company made their GPK debut with an Adam Bomb shoe and accessories. They have teamed up once again with Atomic Toybox and Topps on the following new items.
Of course there will be shoes. The company is launching three new shoes based on Nasty Nick, Bony Tony, and a second Adam Bomb version. Each shoe is listed at $350 and available in sizes 4-18. There is also a three shoe bundle listed for $1050. There is no mention on the website site of these shoes are limited in production. Shoes are scheduled to ship Q3 2026.
The clothing line continues from there. They are also offering four GPK Bomber Jackets based on Adam Bomb (two versions), Nasty Nick, and Bony Tony. Jackets are available in S-5XL and are scheduled to ship mid-2Q. For some reason the Blue Adam Bomb jacket is listed for $250, while the other three are listed for $150. Next there are five GPK new shirts being offered. Three t-shirts based on Adam Bomb ($35), Nasty Nick ($35), and Bony Tony ($35), a button up shirt with multiple GPK cards ($85), and a Polo based on Ali Gator ($75). All shirts are available in S-5XL, and will ship in Q2 2026.
Moving up we get to headwear. The company is also launching four new hats based on Adam Bomb, Nasty Nick, Bony Tony, and multiple GPK cards. Hats are listed at $45, are one size fits all, and are scheduled to ship 2Q 2026.
There are also some new GPK accessories. There are three new Bow Biters based on Nasty Nick, Ali Gator, and Nat Nerd. These are listed for $15 each, and are scheduled to ship sometime in 2026. Also launching is the debut of GPK SneakerHeadz. There are four available based on Adam Bomb, Nasty Nick, Bony Tony, and Ali Gator. These are also listed to $15 each and will ship mid-2Q 2026.
All items are available to preorder now at Bull Airs website. Collectors will need to be patient as item are schedule to ship throughout the year. Now’s your chance to be decked out from head to toe in new GPK gear!
Updates on GPK Yourself Promotions
Last year as part of the Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary, Topps along with Greenlight announced contests to GPK Yourself, where collectors could enter to win a contest to have themselves become a GPK in a future release. There have been some interesting developments in each contest.
The Topps contest got off to a rocky start from the beginning. The odds for GPK Yourself code cards were inadvertently switched with the odds for Buybacks on the odds sheet. Then when the website to enter the codes went live, it initially went to the incorrect entry form, with no options to enter GPK codes. After a couple of weeks, Topps did finally get the correct entry site up and running. Some collectors, who were really trying to win the contest, begin buying and trading for extra code cards. At one per box, there were a lot of cards to go around. However, it turns out Topps limited entries to one per account, and very few collectors were aware of this. There was nothing on the entry page that said entries were limited. Additionally, the website allowed for multiple entries without any warning. The only place that mentioned the entry restriction was the official contest rules. The problem was, the official contest rules were not displayed anywhere for collectors to view. When going to the QR code or website URL directly, the link in the fine print at the bottom of the website just led collectors to the same page they were already on. This stayed the same way through the entire contest and into the new year, until one eagled eyed collector decided to search google for the actual contest rules. When they found the rules and the entry restriction the collector contacted Topps legal department to voice their concerns. Topps confirmed with this collector that entries were limited to one per account. They also have recently updated the GPK Yourself page to now link to the official contest rules. This collector was able to get Topps to issue a credit to their account due to the issue.
For those curious, after reading through the contest rules, Topps should be in the process right now of sending out an email to the winner. Be sure to check your emails to see if you were the lucky winner! The winner is scheduled to have their card appear in the upcoming GPK Universe set later this year.
The other contest to become a GPK card was announced by Greenlight back in June of 2025. However, collectors noticed after a few days all mentions of the contest were removed from Greenlight’s social media accounts. GPKNews confirmed with Greenlight that the contest was discontinued shortly after it was announced. So there will be no winners here.
It’s harder than ever to become a Garbage Pail Kid! Whatever you do, for the love of everything GPK, don’t result to using AI to create yourself as a GPK!!
The 2025 GPKNews.com Best of GPK Award Winners
After a down year for Garbage Pail Kids in 2024, there was some optimism going to 2025 that GPK would have a comeback in their 40th anniversary year. While there were more releases, 2025 will be seen as a letdown due to a lackluster 40th anniversary effort by Topps, and massive changes to everything GPK. Retail, or more realistic, “Hobby sets”, were the main focus in 2025 for GPK. Fanatics has now implemented many of the changes they have wanted to since purchasing the company more than three years ago. Gone are the usual yearly themed releases, and standard chrome releases. 2025 did see a Chrome release, allbeit with major structure changes. That was followed by the 40th anniversary release, which was popular, but with that ushered in a new distribution model that was followed by Sapphire and Green Day sets. For a lot of collectors, 2025 will also be seen as the year of the reprint. The majority of releases in 2025 featured reprints or reimagined artwork based on old characters. Only the controversial Green Day set saw fully new artwork. 2025 also saw a continued focus on GPKs being inserted into other brands. Three baseball releases saw the inclusion of GPK cards during the year. Collectors should expect much more of this in 2026.
Online sets saw a bit of a decrease in launches in 2025. Only one packed out release, two six week series, and a couple of standard releases this year. Licensed merchandise surprisingly saw an some new licensees in 2025. After trimming down the old licenses, it looks like the company has started to make new partnerships with companies like ThrillJoy, Homage, and Bull Airs. With some of the others still involved, 2025 was a solid year for licensed GPK merchandise.
There was still a lot to celebrate in 2025. Sketch card artwork may have had its best year ever due to changes in quality standards set by Topps. There was also the largest group of new artists in years to choose from. The following is the 9th annual 2025 GPKNews.com Best of GPK Awards. Winners have been selected by the editor of GPKNews.com in eight categories. Additionally, a Reader’s Choice winner was also named in each category. Readers of GPKNews were able to vote in a poll on GPKNews’ Facebook page in mid-December. On some awards there is agreement, while others vary in opinion. Let the debate begin! It’s time to celebrate the best in GPKs for 2025!
And the winners are…
2025 Hobby/Retail GPK Set of the Year
Winner: 2025 Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary Edition
Reader’s Choice: 2025 Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary Edition
This category was a letdown in 2025. The releases were mostly reprints. Chrome did have insert sets with new artwork, but the major one was reimagined artwork of OS cards. Sapphire and the 40th anniversary set were nearly all reprinted cards. The only set that fully featured new artwork was the controversial Green Day set that upset half of collectors before it was even released. So the winner this year is the set that was by far the most popular, 2025 Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary Edition. The new format, more focused on a breaker friendly product, along with popular reprinted characters like Adam Bomb and Nasty Nick, saw this product rise sharply in price with collectors and gave collectors that rush of finding product at GameStop stores around the country. We are in a new era for Hobby/Retails sets, 2026 will continue to see changes in this category. Honorable mention: 2024 Chrome 7, 2024 GPK Sapphire.
2025 Online GPK Set of the Year
Winner: 2025 Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Set (1-6)
Reader’s Choice: 2025 Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Set (1-6)
Some collectors on Facebook groups may be posting their proclamations that “GPK is dead”. However, that couldn’t be any further from the truth with online sales numbers in 2025. All online release did excellent sales results. Of course the leader was the ever popular 2025 Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Set (1-6). GPK collectors have proven over the years that horror is their favorite. There will surely be more horror in the future for collectors. Honorable mention: 2025 GPK Valentine’s Day, 2025 GPK InterGoolatic Mayhem (1-6), 2025 GPK Media Menace..
2025 Non-Traditional Set of the Year
Winner: Roxanne Toser Tribure Set
Reader’s Choice: Roxanne Toser Tribute
After passing away in late 2024, there was only one way to honor non-sports card hobby legend Roxanne Toser, a tribute set in her memory! Artists Joe Simko, David Gross, Neil Camera, and Joe McWilliams teamed up and all turned Roxanne into a GPK card that focused on some of the favorite things in her life. Promoters of the Philly Non-Sports card show gave away cards at their show and offered complete sets for a donation. GPK collectors were able to add great memories of Roxanne to their collections in 2025. Honorable mention: 2025 Bowman Chrome GPK x MLB, 2025 Dynamic Duels MLB
2025 Topps GPK Licensee of the Year
Winner: GetAGrip Skateboards
Reader’s Choice: GetAGrip Skateboards
For another year GetAGrip continues their strangle hold on the GPK Licensee of the Year award. The company continues to put out a large variety of GPK merchandise that ends up being a huge hit with collectors. This year’s large Art Prints set was a surprise that was very popular with collectors. From skateboard decks, to jewelry, to promos for next year’s Cheap Toy release, GetAGrip dominates the licensed GPK space. Honorable mention: ThrillJoy, Greenlight Collectibles, Atomic Toybox, Homage.
2025 Rookie Sketch Artist of the Year
Winner: David Day
Reader’s Choice: Vincent Rappa
Up to this point in the awards there has been agreement with the readers of GPKNews on everything. Let’s change things up! 2025 was another banner year for new sketch artists to the GPK brand. There were 23 new artists to pick from this year. The 2025 Rookie Sketch Artist of the year is David Day. While he might be new to GPK, David has sketched for many different brands and companies over the years. He made his debut with the 40th anniversary set, and his sketch work for both pack inserted and artist returns was spectacular. There were a number of artists that could have easily won this category this year. GPK appears to be in good hands moving into 2026! Honorable mention: Vincent Rappa. Sandy Meeks, “Ghoulie” Julie Kuaniver, “Albino Ryno” Ryan Harris.
2025 Sketch Artist of the Year
Winner: Mike Stephens
Reader’s Choice: David Acevedo
This is another category where there could have easily been multiple winners. With over 100 artists working on sketch cards in 2025, there was so much to choose from. New quality standards instituted by Topps resulted in maybe the best year, top to bottom, for sketch card work. Leading the way this year was the 2025 Sketch Artist of the year, Mike Stephens. Mike’s work has gained in popularity since he begin working on GPK sketches. Mike’s work on both Chrome 7 and the 40th set was superb. His sketches this year were some of the most sought after by collectors. He work has lead him to be added as a final card artist on some online sets this year. Collectors are spoiled with such high quality work being done. Honorable mention: David Acevedo, Mike Ritchey, Nik Muggli, Chris Meeks, Fox Layng.
2025 GPK Artist of the Year
Winner: David Gross
Reader’s Choice: Rory McQueen
2025 was a down year for new artwork and GPK gags. Topps focused more on reprint sets, and new styles. Perhaps it’s not surprising then that the hugely popular reimagining of the OS 7 artwork by Rory McQueen in the Chrome set lead him to winning the Reader’s Choice vote in this category. There is a large portion of the longtime collector base that has clamored for new art styles in GPK sets, and for the first time there were multiple examples of that throughout the year. However, so far these new styles have shined the most with reimagined artwork from older sets. Half of GPK is the gags, and that’s why the 2025 Artist of the Year is once again, David Gross. Gross remains the top gag writer in the hobby. David had the most new characters in 2025 with his highlights being 50 cards in the Bowman Chrome MLB set, multiple cards in InterGoolatic Mayhem and Oh the Horrorible, and the Green Day set. Topps certainly kept Gross busy in 2025! Honorable Mention: Rory McQueen, Joe Simko, Brent Engstrom, Joe McWilliams.
2025 GPK Card of the Year
Winner: Adam Boom Art by Rory (Chrome 7 #RA-AB Artist/Concept Rory McQueen)
Reader’s Choice: Adam Boom Art by Rory (Chrome 7 #RA-AB Artist/Concept Rory McQueen)
More and more collectors are demanding different art styles with their GPK cards. In 2025 Topps obliged! Lowell Isaac’s Green Day Insert set, and the multiple artist Adam Bomb Homage insert in the 40th series were two examples of the company testing the waters with new styles. Perhaps the most popular example of this, was Rory Mcqueen’s reimagining of OS 7 artwork in Chrome 7’s Art By Rory insert set. Rory’s style has been used previously in online sets and GetAGrip artwork, but this was the first time it was featured in a retail set. The insert set proved to be one that was sought after by collectors. So much so, that the most popular card in the set, Adam Boom, proved to be the 2025 GPK Card of the Year. Topps is not slowing down with experimenting with various styles in future sets. Collectors can expect more of this is 2026. What will be interesting to see if new GPK gags can be translated to these new styles. Honorable mention: Fightin Freddy, Ringo Leader, Rockin Roxanne, and Adam Bomb 40th Anniversary.
Zion Cases Launches Licensed GPK Slab Cases and 40th Sticker Pack
Zion Cases has partnered with Topps to launch some new officially licensed products to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Garbage Pail Kids. The company has launched three new graded slab cases along with a 40th anniversary GPK sticker pack. The graded slab cases are heavy duty durable cases that product your graded slabs during travel or storage. The company launched three different sized cases. The Slab Case XL GPK Edition holds 172 slabs ($149.99), The Slab Case XL GPK Edition holds 110 slabs ($129.99), while The Slab Case 2R GPK Edition holds 60 slabs ($99.99). The GPK Branded 40th Anniversary Sticker pack contains a mix of classic GPK artwork, the 40th anniversary character artwork, along with plenty of logos of various sizes. The pack contains three 8” x 11” sticker sheets and is available for $19.99. All items can be purchased directly from Zion Case’s website. GPK collectors can travel in style now with all their graded GPK treasures.
The 2025 GPKNews.com Best of GPK Awards, Vote Now!!!
Welcome to the 9th annual GPKNews 2025 Best of GPK Awards. 2025 was a year of change for the GPK hobby, from distribution, to set structure, and more. Still, there were a number of hobby, online, and licensed releases during the year. What were your favorite things GPK in 2025? It’s your turn to help choose the Reader’s Choice awards!
Click here to vote now in the 2025 GPKNews.com Best of GPK Awards!
Read on for an explanation about how the categories and nominees were chosen, along with the fine print of voting.
Here are the categories to be voted on this year:
- 2025 Hobby/Retail Set of the Year – Due to massive distribution changes by Topps in 2025, this category is now the Hobby/Retail Set of the Year. Packed out products offered by both Topps directly and available to Hobby and/or Retail channels will appear here. Four set this year to choose from!
- 2025 Online Set of the Year – Fewer online sets than previous years in 2025. Still have some familiar choices alongside a couple of new products!
- 2025 Non-Traditional Set of the Year – A tribute set along with the various other brands that featured GPK in 2025. Which was your favorite?
- 2025 Licensee of the Year – A bit of a rebound in GPK merchandise in 2025. A couple of new licensees along with some old favorites to pick from!
- 2025 GPK Rookie Sketch Artist of the Year – A super sized total 23 artists made their debuts on GPK in 2025! Which was your favorite?
- 2025 GPK Sketch Artist of the Year – To be eligible an artist must have had official Topps GPK sketch cards appear in a set in 2025. Two hobby and one online set had sketches this year! Over 100 sketch artists in 2025. Who was your favorite?
- 2025 GPK Artist of the Year – To be eligible an artist must have painted an official Topps GPK final published card in 2025. Retail, Online, Convention, and Licensed sets are eligible. Don’t see your favorite on the list? Feel free to choose the write-in option and vote for them!
- 2025 GPK Card of the Year – All GPKs published in 2025 are eligible. Retail, Online, Convention, and Licensed cards are eligible. For nomination purposes if a/b versions are available, only the “a” card is listed. Not as many new cards as usual in 2025 due to the over abundance of reprints. Don’t see your favorite on the list? Feel free to choose the write-in option and vote for them!
Categories and nominees were chosen by the Editor of GPKNews.com. Any GPK releases after 12/17 will be eligible in next year’s (2026) awards. Categories such as best artist, sketch artist, and best card also contain a write-in option. Write-in votes will only be counted for a valid artist/card. Voting will be live from Wednesday 12/17 through Wednesday 12/24 @ 8:00 PM(PST). Voting will only be done through Facebook. Participants can only vote once. Vote totals or individual votes cast will not be made public. Winners will be revealed in a future article that will appear on GPKNews.com right around the 1st of January.