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Work Begins on 2021S1 Garbage Pail Kids Food Fight Sketches

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Update 2/18: Removed Dustin Graham, added Neil Camera and Dave Dabila.

It’s beginning to look a lot like…sketches? Sketch artists for Topps will have a busy holiday season as they will see visions of GPKs dancing in their heads. Work has begun on the sketches for 2021 Series 1 Garbage Pail Kids Food Fight. Not only has Topps increased sketches artists for the set, but sketches per artist have also increased. Deadlines are always tight, and this release is no exception with sketches due back to Topps by 1/15/21. With the popularity through the roof for GPKs, Topps has increased the number of sketches each artist is being asked to do. Each artist is being asked to complete 65 regular, 20 die-cut, 5 loaded puzzle, 4 panoramic, and 4 Tryptych sketches. This is an increase across the board, except for Loaded puzzle sketches.

Topps is going with a pink and green color scheme for the sketches with this release. The sketch fronts once again feature green banners. The nameplate on the regular sketch is white. The backs are all pink with various OS characters. Regular sketches feature Junkfood John, Panoramic sketches have Fat Matt, while the Triptych has Slimy Sam and Babbling Brooke. In addition to the traditional garbage can die-cut, is a egg shaped die-cut for the food themed set.

The total number of sketch artists for this set will be higher than 2020S2 35th Anniversary. 52 artists completed sketches for the 35th set. Topps has decided to add a number of new artists to the lineup for the new set. So far 50 of the 52 artists from the 35th set have confirmed they are doing sketches for the Food Fight set. Set to return are; David Acevedo, Simone Arena, Rö García Astorga, Quinton Baker, Bobby Blakey, Emma Burges, John Brewer, Neil Camera, Nik Castaneda, Pat Chaimuang, Daniel Contois, Jasmine Contois, Sobot Cortez, Jeff Cox, Jason Crosby, Vincenzo D’Ippolito, Dave Dabila, Joey Fitchett, Dave Gacey, Shane Garvey, Patrick Giles, Kelly Greider, Jason Heil, Lowell Isaac, Robert Jimenez, Karl Jones, Rickey Kipfer, Mike McHugh, Rory McQueen, Chris Meeks, Lily Mercado, Rich Molinelli, Victor Moreno, Barry Nygma, Jay O’leary, Darrin Pepe, Todd Rayner, Cathy Razim, Chad Scheres, Brent Scotchmer, Bekki Jane Sharp, Anthony Skubis, Brandhen Snyder, Matt Steffens, Mike Stephens, Gregory Tilson, Greg Treize, Magnus Von Robotsson, Gavin Williams, and Clinton Yeager. Two artists, Simon Jacobsohn and John Monserrat have declined the invite for the set. Topps is adding a number of returning or new artists to the lineup for this set. Fan favorite artists Floyd Sumner and John Cebollero are all returning to GPK sketches after taking a break. Topps is also adding Andrew Artz, Robert Ball, Slippa Chervascus, Adam Dobrzeniecki, Erik Muller, Nik Muggli, Justin Olson, and Mark Parisi, who will be making their GPK sketch debut. This brings the current confirmed sketch artist total to 60 so far. This article will be updated as any additional artists come forward.

After just a couple of months off collectors will be back busting packs again soon 2021 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 Food Fight is set to release on Feb. 24th, 2021.

Topps Launches Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays Dec. Week 2

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A busy last few days of launches doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Today Topps launched Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays Dec. Week 2. This week’s set contains 10 cards, 5 with a/b versions. The set also comes with one blue parallel card. Each set can be purchased for $19.99, or in a lot of ten for $179.99. There are also 10×14 posters of each card available for $19.99. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The set will be available for 7 days on topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is the checklist along with pictures of the cards.

•6A Chris Mess
•6B Sandy Claus
•7A Brainy Janie
•7B Jenny Genius
•8A Ringing Roger
• 8B Bell Barry
• 9A Vinnie Violin
•9B Fiddley Dee
• 10A Prime Nate
•10B Mechanic Cal

Nasty Nick Pin/Coin Highlight GPKNation Launches This Week

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This week marks the second piece from Brent Engstrom in the artist collaboration with GPKNation.com. Set to launch Tuesday 12/8 at 1:00 PM EST will be the Nasty Nick pin. Like previous pins it is limited to 200 copies. Then on Friday 12/11 at 1:00 PM EST there will be two coins launching, one for Nasty Nick and one for Evil Eddie. The coins are also limited to 200 copies.

GPKNation also launched the Glow in the Dark Garbage Pail Kids Patch this week. The patches also come with a blue hat to attach them to. There are sure to be more surprises from the company this week.

Topps Launches 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition

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Garbage Pail Kids are moving up in the world. After a very successful year that has seen the popularity of GPK be its highest in over 10 years, Topps is using the brand to introduce non-sport cards to their exclusive club. Today Topps launched a presale for 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition. The cards were available to purchase today exclusively to Topps 582 Montgomery members. The 582 club is a yearly membership club that Topps first launched in 2018. Memberships are sold out for for the 2020-21 year already. One of the perks of the club is exclusive early access to products. This is the first non-sport product to launch to the club, previous products have focused on sports, mainly baseball.

According to the picture of the box the set contains cards from OS 1 and OS 2. Each box comes with 32 cards. The listing advertises collectors can find the following parallels.

  • Blue Sapphire: #’d to 99
  • Green Sapphire: #’d to 50
  • Orange Sapphire: #’d to 25
  • Gold Sapphire: #’d to 15
  • Purple Sapphire: #’d to 10
  • Red Sapphire: #’d to 5
  • Padparadscha: #’d 1-of-1

Topps did not show any pictures of the cards, nor reveal a checklist. Members were able to purchase 1 box for $50, plus shipping. The listing claims boxes will ship in 3-5 days. Boxes allotted for 582 members sold out immediately. Many club members complained about being unable to purchase boxes. Secondary prices for boxes have reached 8x-10x in price already. Many times with 582 releases, Topps will release additional boxes to the public in the days following the release to 582 members. It’s not known if this will be the case with Sapphire. Collectors should keep their eyes open to Topps.com for a possible public release.

Topps Reveals Print Run for 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Gross Greetings

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After ending last Thursday, Topps revealed the print run for 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Gross Greetings. The holiday themed set was completely done by artist “GPK” Nik Castaneda. Sales for the set ended up at 535. It’s a solid number considering the controversy the set faced from collectors. The art was done in Nik’s own style, with the characters not looking like traditional GPKs. The set found just as many supporters, as detractors. However, the sales numbers show collectors are willing to spend on different art styles.

Mad Mike Fury Load Part 1 Animated Short Debuts on NTWRK

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Update: YouTube version is now up! Full video along with cast credits is at the end of this article. A lot more in this one than the NTWRK version.

As part of this weekend’s Beyond the Streets art fair, NTWR debuted Garbage Pail Kids Mad Mike Fury Load Vol. 1 animated short. The video debuted on the NTWRK app. The video is the brain child of GPK collector and the popular TV show The Goldbergs creator, Adam F. Goldberg. The video is part one of a three part series based off of the recent GPK Krashers set. Joe Simko did the art for that set, and he is a producer on this video series along with Topps’ Ira Friedman. Adam F. Goldberg wrote and funded the making of the animated short. The production was handled by Jam Roll studios, who did a number of stop motion videos for Topps about a year ago. A number of voice actors donated their time to the project including popular actor Christian Slater. The video includes Adam F. Goldberg going over Garbage Pail Kids and his collection. There will be a slightly different version of the video released on Topps’ You Tube channel this coming Monday, which will include the cast credits.

GPKNews caught up with Adam F. Goldberg to answer a couple of questions on the new animated short.

GPKNews – How did the idea of the video and the process of getting it green lit come about?

Adam F. Goldberg – For the past few years I’ve been talking with Ira about making a GPK animated series for a streaming service like Netflix or Disney+. The pandemic unfortunately ended the Goldbergs spin-off Schooled, so I suddenly had a few weeks free, which rarely happens these days. I reached out to Ira and Joe Simko and proposed we stopped talking about a GPK project and just make one ourselves. In that email I pitched 20 ideas for short films that would run 10 to 15 minutes, most were parodies of my favorite 80s movies.  Joe immediately replied with his GPK Krashers artwork and said we have to do your Mad Max idea and use my vehicles.  And so Fury Load was born!

GPKNews – How did working with Topps, Jam Roll, and the crew compare to other TV projects you’ve been involved with?

AG – Let me start by saying this only happened because of Ira Friedman from Topps, (Incrudible Ira from his unannounced 2020 card). In my opinion, Ira is the sole reason GPK is back in the conversation today. He resurrected this brand and has made such brilliant moves on how to make it profitable for Topps.  It’s hard to compete with Baseball cards, but Ira proved GPK can. Ira is the one who found jamroll studios and he spearheaded the original GPK minute long shorts. He had no budget, so found creative ways to make those initial shorts. The creative process with Ira was a dream, mostly because he let me have all the creative control! That typically doesn’t happen. Topps was thrilled that I wanted to fund a movie myself and get stars like Christian Slater to donate their voices. They just let me do my thing and only had one note — originally Mad Mike was the “CHODE WARRIOR” and the joke made it into our final cut, but was swapped out last minute to maintain a family friendly feel. Once the script was locked, Jamroll took my mad ramblings and really made it sing.  They’re truly brilliant animators and did the impossible on a small budget. I wanted each scene to be filled with Easer Eggs specifically for the collectors. I scripted a few, but Jamroll did amazing work in this area. I love in the first scene alone you see tons of GPK march, even the Monopoly game.

It’s also worth mentioning, there’s even Easter eggs about the infamous 80s movie, and Topps helped me cast some of the original actors into roles here! You’ll see how that pans out in parts 2 and 3.

GPKNews – After this video, do you have any plans for future GPK videos, shows, movies, etc.

AG – Currently, Michael Eisner’s company Tornate own both Topps AND the Tornate TV studio, (they produced Bojack Horeseman for Netflix). Topps agrees I’m the geek to make a GPK series, but the problem is my TV company is at Disney. So basically, I’m employed by another company who only wants me to work on their properties.  It’s a shame because I spent a year creating a whole TV pitch which is one of my favorite things ever. The concept is that Topps unlocked their vault and is finally airing the 80s cartoon that parents banned 35 years ago. Only we make a new GPK cartoon now which is a satire of all the classic good vs. evil toons from the 80s (GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, etc.). I even scripted out fake commercial breaks where we have parody toy commercials that never actually existed.  I wish I could pitch it!

The video is still available to watch on the NTWRK app within the listing for the GPK cards. I’ll embed the YouTube video once it launches on Monday.

NTWRK Launches Beyond the Streets x Garbage Pail Kids Set

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Today NTWRK launched Beyond the Streets X Garbage Pail Kids set. The set was created for the Beyond the Streets virtual art fair taking place this weekend. 48 street and graffiti artists created renditions of their favorite GPKs. The set is being sold in box and pack form. Each box comes with 24 8-card packs, or 10-card packs. I’m not sure because the listing shows both. The listing also advertises the box could contain a special Adam Bomb chase card created by KC Ortiz and limited to 100 copies. It’s unknown how large the set is, the example cards show all are numbered “a”, however no examples of “b” cards are shown. The boxes went on sale today, 12/5 at 5:00 PM EST., and will remain on sale only until Sunday 12/6 at 10:00 PM EST. Each box can be purchased for $100 on the NTWRK app, which is available for both iPhone and Android devices. Below are pictures of the cards.

2020 Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition Launching Monday

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Topps, today in their email to collectors, began advertising 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition. Not much is known on what the set will consist of. The box features Junky Jeff artwork. The box also advertises it contains artwork from OS 1 and OS 2. The box says it will contain 32 cards. Purchases will be limited to 1 box per membership. No other details about the set has been offered. The set will first be available only to 582 Montgomery Club members beginning Monday 12/7. The club is a paid membership Topps offers to collectors. Memberships are already sold out, so anyone not a member will not be able to purchase the pre-sale. Historically, products offered to 582 members first, sell out quickly with the only option for collectors buying on the secondary market. It’s a new world as GPK enters the high end exclusive card markets.

Topps Readies Burn4Gold Digital Garbage Pail Kids WAX Event

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Update:

Waxstash is supporting Topps’ OS2 Burn Event and making it easy with features such as filtering, sorting by highest mint, counting the total number of cards you burned, and bundle burns allowing you to burn as many as 40 cards in one transaction. Group admins should pin/tweet/share this post which will provide step by step instructions on how to use the burn features.

Step 1: Go to waxstash.com or waxstash.com/markets/gpk-simple – either will bring you to the Waxstash GPK market.

Step 2: ‘SIGN IN’ with your wax cloud or anchor wallet and go to ‘INVENTORY’.

Step 3: You should now see your inventory of OS2 Base cards already sorted by highest mint. Use the checkbox in the lower left corner of each card to select the cards you want to burn. You must select at least one to see the ‘BURN’ option and you may select as many as 40.

Step 4: Once you select your cards click the ‘ACTION’ button to dropdown the ‘TOPPS BURN EVENT’ button and click it.

Step 5: Review all the cards you selected.

Step 6: If you’re ready to burn the cards click the checkbox to confirm you understand the Topps Burn Event and the click the ‘BURN’ button.

Step 7: Your wallet will ask you to review and authenticate the transaction as usual.

CONGRATULATIONS! You burned NFT assets.

BONUS COUNTER: You should notice the ‘INVENTORY’ button contains a counter that will let you know the total number of assets you have burned between December 4th, 12:00pm EST and December 9th, 12:00pm EST. Keep in mind this counter will count all assets you burn during this period whether or not they are GPK OS2 Base cards or any other NFT so for the most accurate results be sure to only burn OS2 Base cards during this period.

A couple of week’s ago, Topps announced a special burn event for their WAX Blockchain digital set, Garbage Pail Kids OS 2. According to the company, the event is set to begin tomorrow, Friday 12/4 at 12:00 PM EST, and will end on Wednesday 12/9 at 12:00 PM EST. Collectors who burn OS 2 base cards, and open OS 2 packs, will be eligible to enter to win a random OS 2 Gold card. Cards burned or packs opened can only be done during the contest to be eligible. Collectors can quality in four different tiers.

  • Tier 1
    • Requirement for Qualification: Burn 5 BASE Cards
    • Unique Gold Cards Available: 40
  • Tier 2
    • Requirement for Qualification: Burn 10 BASE Cards; Open 3 Standard Packs
    • Unique Gold Cards Available: 25
  • Tier 3
    • Requirement for Qualification: Burn 30 BASE Cards; Open 2 Mega Packs
    • Unique Gold Cards Available: 10
  • Tier 4
    • Requirement for Qualification: Burn 100 BASE Cards; Open 1 Ultimate Pack
    • Unique Gold Cards Available: 5

Topps made a change to the rules in order to try to prevent users using multiple wallets and entering multiple times. Now all collectors can enter each Tier multiple times. Collectors will automatically qualify for as many times as they are eligible based on the total cards burned and packs opened. For example, a collector burning 205 cards, and opening 2 Ultimate packs will qualify 41 times in Tier 1 and 2 times in Tier 4.

How do collectors burn cards and open packs? Here’s a quick guide as supplied by Topps.

Burning ‘OS2’ cards can be done easily by following the steps below:

  1. Login in to WCW on https://wax.tools.simpleassets.io/
  2. Under “My Assets” select an NFT and click the burn icon (see attached)

If fans have any unopened ‘OS2’ packs, they can open them up using this flow below:

  1. Login in to https://topps.wdny.io/
  2. Select “My Inventory” in the nav bar
  3. Under the ‘Your Unopened Packs’ tab, select the pack you would like to open
  4. Select ‘Open’

Gold cards will be awarded after the event. Topps also shared that the Goes Exotic burn mechanic and the new Topps WAX website experience are scheduled to launch in Q1 of 2021. New GPK sets will take a backseat for a while as Topps focuses on other properties and the new website.