Our latest #FanArtFriday comes to us from an unexpected place, St. Louis-based advertising agency Bruton Stroube Studios. Inspired by a lunch conversation between Jake Houvenagle (Art Director) and Brandon Voges (Photographer), Garbage Pail Kids – Where are they now? finds six hand-picked GPK characters “as real people, in real situations, with backstories of how their […]
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Our first user-submitted Fan Art Friday in awhile came to us from Anna, who has taken the concept of Garbage Pail Kids full circle by transforming Cabbage Patch Kids into their grosser, more cooler, garbage-residing cousins. Anna, who admits that her “sewing is shit,” has already brought to life quite a few of these miscreants […]
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Normally these would warrant their own Fan Art Friday, but this news is just too good to wait. Last year San Antonio-based toy sculptor Aaron Moreno, aka Retroband, released a series of 2″ mini figures called Retroband Kids which (somehow) flew right under our radar. The first piece in the series, a giant-sized “Toxic Timmy” […]
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Halloween… over? NAH! Not around Strange Kids Club it’s not, we like to let our freak flags fly all year round. Lucky for us, we’re not the only ones who carry the scare spirit with us 24/7—turns out the fright-makers over at Trick or Treat Studios are already gearing up for a ghoulish 2015 season! […]
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The newest trading card line from Wax Eye (Cereal Killers), founded by by Joe Simko, STUPID HEROES is much like you’d imagine—a silly stab at turning mainstream comic book heroes into cheesy counterparts (ie. Silver Server, Stuporman, Bitman). Beyond just simple parody, though, Stupid Heroes also manages to introduce a few new ideas into the […]
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Announced yesterday to coincide with the NYCC festivities, Austin-based game makers Steve Jackson Games revealed that they have partnered with Topps to produce a pair of games based on the grossest of the gross: Garbage Pail Kids! The first game, Garbage Pail Kids: Super Snot Shots, is a “snot-flicking dexterity game” which I truly hope […]
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The 80’s were a prime era for card collecting, especially in the circuit of non-sports trading cards. At a measly 25 cents, almost any and every franchise was putting it’s brands and mascots onto collectible cards for mass consumption and us kids ate it up. Naturally there were the more successful series that included Garbage […]
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That’s right! Those loveable and adorable trading card kids are almost 30 years old! And by “loveable,” I mean “disgusting.” And when I say “adorable,” I really mean “vomit-inducing.” But that’s why we loved them, wasn’t it? They struck a chord at just the right time for Strange Kids everywhere, and probably saved our sisters’ […]
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In a surprise announcement yesterday TOPPS revealed their plans for a new Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 in 2014. This comes after a huge resurgence of the brand this year, with several (huge) new series released already – not to mention a calendar, collector’s binder, book and the return of Cheap Toys (minikins)! All we’re […]