10th Anniversary of Gross Card Con To Have Largest GPK Gathering Ever

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It’s hard to believe, but Gross Card Con is turning 10 this year! The upcoming show, which serves to celebrate its 10th anniversary, is shaping up to be the largest gathering of GPK artists ever. Gross Card Con will take place May 30th & 31st at the Ahern Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. Like last year, GCC will take place inside the PokeKon show.

The highlight of every GCC is the artist lineup appearing at the show. This year’s group will be the largest gathering of current and former official GPK artists ever at one show. The artist lineup features numerous final card artists past and present, running from OS-modem GPK. There are also plenty of the top sketch artists, many making their GCC debuts. Leading the way is OS artist James Warhola, along with GPK final card artists Smokin Joe McWilliams, Neil Camera, Rory McQueen, Mike Stephens, and Lowell Isaac. Current GPK sketch artists scheduled to attend are David Acevedo, Jason Crosby, Fox Layng, Chad Scheres, Eddie Rhodes III, Barry Nygma, Shane Garvey, and Julie Kuaniver. Former GPK final card artists and Magic Marker Inc. owner Mark Pingitore will also have a booth at the show. Other former GPK artists in attendance include Pat Chaimuamg, Michael Bernard, and Jay O’Leary. Topps artist Halsey Camera is also one of the featured artists. There will also be a number of current sketch artists in attendance at the show; Adam Edwards, Terry Gordon, Jeff Cox, Albino Ryno, Ad Rock, and Jason Bryant. While they won’t all have a table you will find them around the show, some will even have special cards with them for the show. That’s 23 current and former GPK artists who will be at the show!

Of course that is not all. Clint Coleman and family, owners of GPK & Wacky Warehouse, (also promoter of GCC), will have plenty of GPK merchandise available to purchase. GetAGrip will be in attendance once again making deliveries of their popular GPK Mart preorders. Artist Will Green will be with the All C’s table representing Garbage Island with some of his own GPK inspired merchandise for sale.

You want more? Ok, the there will once again be the traditional show set featuring the artist’s GPK take on Pokémon characters. This year’s set features 18 cards, plus official GPK promo card from artist Rory McQueen. Show sets have 1:5 odds of receiving a sketch card. Additionally, each show set comes with a raffle ticket for prizes that will be announced Sunday at noon. You can purchase your show set from the GPK & Wacky Warehouse table at the show. There will also be a special limited edition Cracked Ice card by James Warhola to help celebrate 10 years of GCC. Cards are gold foil stamped out of /100.

Still more? Those that attended last year’s show will remember the tight space that housed all the artists in attendance. So how will this super sized lineup fit? This year the majority of GCC will be on the second floor with their own dedicated space. You’ll still want to checkout the main floor as there will be a few artists and vendors there as well. Part of the main GCC area will have their own dedicated stage! There will be a full lineup of events taking place through Saturday & Sunday of the show. There will be Pack Wars, two artist chats (one each day), a live artist jam, live breaks and more! The artist jam will have each artist contribute to one giant piece that will be auctioned off Sunday at the show, with proceeds going to the artists. Collectors will be sick of hearing my voice as I’ll be hosting a number of the planned events all weekend! The final stage schedule will be announced soon.

Still need more GPK that weekend? How about the traditional Saturday night dinner? The dinner is scheduled once again for Evil Pie on Saturday night from 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM. This ticketed even allows for collectors and your favorite artists to mingle while enjoying all you can eat pizza, salad, meatballs, wings, drinks, and more. Sadly tickets for the event are sold out. Collectors who have already purchased a dinner ticket will need to collect their ticket from the GPK & Wacky Warehouse table on Saturday, as collectors must have a ticket to attend. Collectors attending the dinner will receive an exclusive card done by artist Mike Stephens.

If you haven’t make your Vegas plans yet, it’s not too late! Collectors are in store for a full weekend of GPK events! The show is open Saturday 5/30 and Sunday 5/31 from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM. VIP ticket holders can enter the show one hour early each day at 9:00 AM as well as attend the Friday preview night from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM. Tickets for each day of admission or the VIP ticket can be purchasedw at the PokeKon website. You can find out more information about GCC from the GPK & Wacky Warehouse website and Facebook page. This show is not to be missed for all GPK collectors!

GetAGrip’s GPK Mart is Back for Gross Card Con

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GetAGrip will once again be at this year’s Gross Card Con. And the GPK Mart will be open! This year the company is offering their popular Click & Collect box. The contents of the box are a mystery, but the company says, “rest assure the box contains officially licensed GPK items, and maybe even a couple of cards.” Boxes are limited to /100. Collectors were able to order the boxes earlier today for $125, however they sold out in less than 90 mins. It’s important note these boxes will not ship, collectors must pick them up at Gross Card Con! This year’s Gross Card Con is scheduled for May 30-31 at the Ahern Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV.

GetAGrip Launches Garbage Pail Kids Giant Art Prints Series 2

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Update 4/20/26:

GetAGrip has shared production information with GPKNews. A total of 10,080 packs were produced for GPK Art Prints Series 2. This is up just a bit from Series 1. That works out to a total of 420 possible boxes. Based on those numbers here would be the odds for each parallel and insert:

  • Hypnodisc (/100) – 1:2.5
  • Trippin (/75) – 1:3.4
  • Gold Tooth (/50) – 1:5
  • Nevermind (/25) – 1:10
  • 3D Cube (/10) – 1:25
  • Blood Red (/5) – 1:50
  • Booger Slime (1/1) – 1:252
  • OS Wrapper (/250) – 1:2.7
  • Snot Ball OS Wrapper (1/1) – 1:672

Note that those odds are rounded and assume all 14,405 numbered prints were placed in packs. We have no way knowing how many full boxes were sold, so there is no print run info on the Cells or the Artist Prints. We can however estimate base prints. 10,080 packs would be 30,240 total prints – 14,405 numbered prints = 396 of each base print.

Update 4/17/26:

The first boxes of Get A Grip’s Series 2 Art Prints started hitting mailboxes today. The company didn’t reveal much information around the set ahead of time, but now that boxes are being busted we know some more info. Thanks to WhatNot user cmf98 for pictures from their break earlier today.

The base checklist is made up of 40 prints from OS 3 & 4. Base prints for this series come in eight different borders; Warpspeed (Base), Hypnodisc (/100), Trippin (/75), Gold Tooth (/50), Nevermind (/25), 3D Cube (/10), Blood Red (/5), and Booger Slime (1/1). There are also all 15 OS Wrapper Prints as an insert set. Base Wrappers are /250, while a Snot Ball 1/1 parallel is also available. There are four different Collector Cells that come one per box; Ali Gator, Alien Ian, Charlotte Web, and Grim Jim.

If you blinked, you missed them! Today GetaGrip launched Garbage Pail Kids Giant Art Prints Seres 2. After last year’s successful launch of Series 1, the company is back with more 5” x 7” large high quality thick art prints. Series 2 is comprised of 40 prints with characters from OS 3 & OS 4. This time there also appears to be a separate OS Pack insert set. Like last time, each box comes with one of four random Cell Art Prints. Each case comes with the complete Cell Art Print set. Each box also comes with one Mystery Artist Proof Foil Art Print of either Adam Bomb or Nasty Nick each limited to /4. The company didn’t explain any info about the Mystery Art Prints. There will once again be a number of rare parallel Art Prints randomly inserted. However the company didn’t reveal which parallels were available or their numbering. There was also no checklist or odds revealed on the listings.

Boxes and cases were sold out within three mins of release at 1:00 PM EST. Cases were available for $1985 and boxes for $475. Packs were available for $19.99 each or in lots of 5 for $99 and 10 for $199. GPKNews has reached out to the company for additional details on the set. The company says the Art Prints will ship this month.

Topps Teases Garbage Pail Kids x NBA Chrome Cards

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Update 4/17/26: Topps released the odds yesterday for 2025-26 Bowman Basketball. This included the odds of course for the Bowman NBA & NIL GPK cards. Odds are listed separately for the NBA GPK cards vs. the NIL GPK cards. GPK cards are available as Chrome Refractors in Hobby, Jumbo, Value and Bulk Hanger packs. Red Refractors /5, and Suoerfractors 1/1 are available in just the Hobby, Jumbo, and Value packs. Here are the listed odds for each:

  • GPK NBA Refractors
    • Hobby 1:13,050
    • Jumbo 1:4,379
    • Value 1:43,586
    • Bulk 1:10,000
  • GPK NIL Refractors
    • Hobby 1:16,288
    • Jumbo 1:5,474
    • Value 1:54,483
    • Bulk 1:12,500
  • GPK NBA Red Refractors /5
    • Hobby 1:196,931
    • Jumbo 1:95,784
    • Value 1:980,680
  • GPK NIL Red Refractors /5
    • Hobby 1:270,780
    • Jumbo 1:109,468
    • Value 1:1,176,816
  • GPK NBA Superfractors 1/1
    • Hobby 1:722,080
    • Jumbo 1:766,272
    • Value 1:5,884,080
  • GPK NIL Superfractors 1/1
    • Hobby 1:1,083,120
    • Jumbo 1:766,272
    • Value 1:5,884,080

Odds on these are very long, there looks to be a lot of this product printed. Based on some very quick math here is how many GPK cards are inserted into each SKU:

  • GPK NBA
    • Hobby – 187
    • Jumbo – 182
    • Value – 134
    • Bulk – 83
  • GPK NIL
    • Hobby – 137
    • Jumbo – 146
    • Value – 107
    • Bulk -66

Again very quick math here, but this comes out to 117 each of the GPK NBA cards, and 111 each of the GPK NIL cards. Slightly more than the 100 each expected. But collectors should still  probably expect only around 100 of each of the Refractors. 2025-26 Bowman Basketball is set to launch 4/22/26.

Update 3/23/26 – Topps has posted the checklist for 2025-26 Bowman Basketball including the GPK cards included in the set. There will be 5 NBA players, along with 4 NIL athletes. No odds have been posted yet. However, Topps does mention on the landing page for the produce that the GPK cards will be case hits. Topps has set the preorder for boxes to be tomorrow at 12:00 PM EST. Bowman Basketball is set to be released 4/22/26.

Here is the checklist of GPK inserts in the set;

BOWMAN GPK NBA
BGP-1 Cooper Flagg Dallas Mavericks Rookie
BGP-2 Ace Bailey Utah Jazz Rookie
BGP-3 Dylan Harper San Antonio Spurs Rookie
BGP-4 Kon Knueppel Charlotte Hornets Rookie
BGP-5 Anthony Edwards Minnesota Timberwolves

BOWMAN GPK NIL
BNIL-1 Sienna Betts UCLA®
BNIL-2 Sarah Strong UConn®
BNIL-3 AJ Dybantsa BYU®
BNIL-4 Darryn Peterson Kansas®

Yesterday via their social channels, Topps posted a teaser image for the upcoming Garbage Pail Kids x NBA collaboration. The upcoming 2025-26 Bowman Basketball set will contain a GPK themed insert set. The company showed the chrome GPK card of Utah rookie Ace Bailey. All artwork for the NBA GPK cards was done by longtime artist David Gross. In the post, Topps did refer to the card being a SP card. Now that Topps has acquired additional sports licenses the company is beginning to incorporate GPKs into those brands, much like they’ve done the last two years with Bowman Chrome Baseball. No other details around the GPK inserts has been announced by Topps, including checklist, odds, or release date. Bowman Basketball will include a mix of young NBA stars, along with top college players. Collectors should expect the GPK checklist to follow that same formula.

GPK Returns to WWE in 2026 Topps Chrome WWE

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Update 4/10/26: So you’re saying there’s a chance? Today is release day for 2025 Topps WWE Chrome, and Topps has released odds for the product. Below are the odds for the GPK WWE cards.

  • GPK WWE Base
    • Breakers Delight 1:12
    • Hobby 1:530
    • Mega 1:7,185
    • Value 1:10,530
    • First Day Issue 1:496
  • GPK WWE Black Refractor /10
    • Breakers Delight 1:120
    • Hobby 1:4,694
    • Mega 1:71,645
    • Value 1:210,583
    • First Day Issue 1:4,954
  • GPK WWE Red Refractor /5
    • Breakers Delight 1:359
    • Hobby 1:7,000
    • Mega 1:143,290
    • Value 1:421,165
    • First Day Issue 9,908
  • GPK WWE Superfractor 1/1
    • Breakers Delight 1:1,792
    • Hobby 1:35,000
    • Mega 1:716,448
    • Value 1:2,105,824
    • First Day Issue 1:49,526

Based on some very, very quick math the breakdown of how many base GPK WWE cards in each box type is:

  • Breaker’s Delight – 1,200
  • Hobby/FDI – 1,041
  • Mega – 126
  • Value – 249

I couldn’t figure out an easy to separate Hobby and First Day Release packs, but odds are in the same ballpark. Based on those numbers, I come up with 104 of each GPK WWE card. So my guess is there is probably around 100 total of each, which would be in line with other recent sport releases where GPK cards were inserted as case hits.

Update 4/3/26: The checklist for 2026 Topps WWE Chrome has been revealed. Here are all the characters included in the GPK inserts in the set. No odds have been released for the set yet.


Update 3/26/26: Topps today via their social media channels teased a number of the GPK cards that will be inside 2026 Topps WWE Chrome. While the checklist or odds haven’t been released yet, there will be a total of 25 characters, with all artwork done by artist David Gross.

For the first time since 2019, GPK and WWE collectors will be able to get their hands on cards of their favorite superstars as Garbage Pail Kids. According to the sell sheets posted at Blowout Cards, GPKs are making a return to the WWE Universe in 2026 Topps WWE Chrome. This last time we saw GPK cards with the WWE was 2019’s online GPK x WWE release. Topps would lose their WWE license to Panini in 2021. After three years, WWE is now back at Topps. Much like the inclusion of GPK cards in Bowman Chrome Baseball the past two years, Topps is including GPK as an insert set in the upcoming WWE Chrome set. Sadly, due to Topps lack of promotion, the announcement of the inclusion of GPK in the WWE Chrome set comes after their presale. Topps launched their online presale for WWE Chrome this past Monday on their website. Boxes and cases sold out quickly for all box types. According to the sell sheets, the GPK cards will appear across all SKUs, Hobby, Delight, Mega, and Value boxes. The cards are expected to be SP inserts, with parallels coming in Black (/10), Red (/5), and Superfractor (1/1). The parallels are listed as “case hits” on the sell sheets. All artwork for the WWE cards was done by David Gross. Right now that’s all the information available for the GPK WWE inserts. The company has not released a checklist or odds for the product yet, nor have they shown any teaser images of the GPK cards. GPKNews will have updates as more information becomes available. 2026 Topps WWE Chrome is set to launch April 10, 2026.

Garbage Pail Kids News From Topps Industry Conference

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Topps held their annual Topps Industry Conference the last two days in Arizona. Hobby shop owners, breakers, and hobby influencers gather from around the country to find out what Topps has planned for the upcoming year. While, there wasn’t a lot of Garbage Pail Kids news, there were a couple of mentions by the company. Non-sports products were mainly dominated by upcoming releases from Disney, Star Wars, and Marvel. However, there was one slide in their presentation that showed some of the other non-sport releases planned for the year. GPK Universe was highlighted with a set logo for the release. This is the second confirmation from Topps of the upcoming GPK Universe retail set. Also, featured in a card collage was a GPK card of “Snot Rope Hope”. The card is B&W with an “old timey” GPK banner. Artwork for the card was done by Mike Stephens. No other details around the set were revealed.

During the show Topps also mentioned that popular SSP inserts like GPK and others will be found in Topps Basketball, Topps Football, and other IPs, letting collectors know they’ve pulled something special when they get one of those. This is the first mention of GPKs being included in a NFL product in the future. This confirms plans Topps has set in motion over the last couple of years. Sports GPKs will continue to be very rare inserts across multiple brands going forward. Topps also had slides that showed off new images of the NBA x GPK cards found in Bowman Basketball, and the same images previously shown in WWE Chrome.


84th Philly Non-Sports Card Show Kicks Off Con Season

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Spring has sprung and that means it’s time to begin Convention Season! The 84th Philly Non-Sorts card show is set to kickoff the con season, with their show nearly one month away. The show takes place at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks. PA, April 18 & 19, 2026. The spring show is set to be in Hall D, a slightly larger hall than usual. There will be more than 100 non-sports vendors and artists, along with manufacturers Cryptozoic Entertainment, Rittenhouse Archives, SideKick, Monsterwax and RRParksCARDS.

For GPK collectors, one of the big highlights of every Philly show is the headlining artists. Longtime GPK artist David Gross will be at the show. David plans on having an official GPK promo pair available for sale at his booth, along with new cards from his Gross Rejects series. Former GPK sketch artist, Jason Brower, and new GPK sketch artist Vinnie Rappa will have a booth, in addition to artist Tim Shinn.

The promo cards are always a hot item. Saturday attendees will receive 1a A.I. Art (while supplies last). Sunday attendees will receive his twin, 1b Avant Gerard (while supplies last). Artwork for those cards was done by artist Neil Camera. Meanwhile, attendees on both Saturday and Sunday will receive Wacky Packages promo, Non-Shorts Card Show (while supplies last), card was painted by Neil Camera with concept by Peter Zies. There are sure to be other non GPK promo cards from manufacturers and the show itself.

The traditional Saturday night dinner has undergone a location change. This show’s dinner will take place at Arnold’s Family Fun Center. The center is located across the street from the Hall. The Fun Center features video games, go karts, bowling, and more for collectors to enjoy before or after the dinner. Collectors wishing to attend can purchase tickets now for $45 from the Philly Non-Sports Website.

The show takes place Saturday April 18th from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, and Sunday April 19th from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Tickets are $12 per day, or a two day pass for $20. For the first time, collectors can pre purchase tickets at the Philly Non-Sports Website, or at the door the day of the show. This is your chance to hang out with artists and collectors alike and fill all your GPK needs!


GetAGrip Launches GPK Multiverse Dead Ted Skateboard Decks

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GetAGrip Skateboards today launched their latest Garbage Pail Kids skateboard decks focused on a legendary OS 1 character. There are three new GPK Multiverse Dead Ted decks done by artists Rory McQueen, Jason Crosby, and Fred Harper. Each deck comes with three cards, one of which is autographed by the artist. Each artwork comes in a base deck numbered out of /85, while chase decks are also available out of /8. Each deck can be purchased individually for $169, or in a base base of all three for $475, or a six pack with all variations for $1500. Decks can bleached from GetAGrips’s website and are sure to sell out quickly!

GetAGrip Launches Garbage Pail Kids Adam Boom Discraft Buzzz Disc

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GetAGrip today launched what appears to now be their final Garbage Pail Kids Chrome Discraft Buzzz disc. Today’s disc is based on the artwork for 2025’s GPKNews Card of the Year, Adam Bomb from the Chrome 7 Art by Rory set. The disc is limited to /100 copies and can be purchased for $34.99 from GetAGrip’s website. These are sure to sell out, don’t want long!

GetAGrip Launches Final Two Garbage Pail Kids Chrome Discraft Buzzz Discs

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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.