Wacky Packages
from the 1985 series |
from the 1991 series |
The Topps Company published Wacky Packages stickers
from 1967 to 1991. Another Wacky Packages series scheduled
for 1992 was nearly completed, when Topps halted production in
mid-1991. John Pound contributed paintings for the 1985, 1991,
and unpublished 1992 series.
In June 2004 Topps released Wacky Packages All-New Series
1, featuring both new art and older unpublished art.
Wacky Packages ORIGINAL
ART by John Pound is available (pencils).
The
first GARBAGE PAIL KID, painted for
the 1985 Wacky Packages, but unpublished
John Pound's 1991 Wacky
Packages ART PROCESS
Wacky Packages
Checklist of John Pound Art:
1985 series:
- 4 -- Burger Thing
- 5 -- National Retirer
- 6 -- Loafing Cow
- 7 -- Aqua Flush
- 8 -- Putritan Skunk Oil
- 9 -- Hottest Coal Cakes
- 11 -- Grave Cat Food
- 36 -- Instant Lazy Goo
- (unpublished) -- "Garbage Pail Kids" (showing a
kid/bum/doll in a trashcan, in a box. This done was before GPKs.)
1991 series:
- 2 -- Badzooka Cement Gum
- 3 -- Trucker's Traffic Jam
- 12 -- Scrawny Paper Towels
- 19 -- Reekboks Shoes
- 29 -- Kitty Zitter
- 30 -- Sane Ball
- 32 -- Pit Bull Milk
- 34 -- Fatman action doll
- 35 -- Gross Blisters cereal
- 38 -- Cup O' Poodles
- 39 -- Flea-Wee Vermin
- 40 -- Duck Bar
- 44 -- Dr. Sushi (One Fish Two Fish...)
- 50 -- Drunken Donuts
- (Box) -- art and logo -- kid races shopping cart through
store's aisle
1991 series,
unpublished art, and 1992 series, unpublished:
- Antenmann's Ant Farm Cake (a later slightly different version
was painted by Zina Saunders, for the 2004 release.)
- "Plop on Pop" book by Dr. Flussh*
* shown in promo for 2004 release
Art completed for the unpublished 1992 series:
- (Box Art for '92 series -- kid bursts from shopping bag.
Pink background.)
- Mump shoes
- Gravestones vitamins
- Lame Boy game system
- Scary Kitchen Scorned Beef Hash*
- Sludgesicle Sludge Pops*
- Ghoul Talk game
- Sea Honkies
- Deja Vu Master Sickey Mouse viewer
- Choperation game*
- Smellio's Pizza
- Ritchie Retch comics
- Unlucky Dog dog food
- Welt's Tomb & Buried grape jelly*
- The Little Barmaid video
- The Scare Bears "Reign of Terror" video
- Shebad cat hairballs
* shown in promo for 2004 release
Coupon backs art completed for the '92 series:
- Uncle Vermin's Cockroach Farm
- Brooklyn-English Translator
- Puppy Press (canine juicer)
- Battery-Operated Battery
- Gum-Flappin' Gina doll
- International Gravel
Art begun (pencilled only) for the 1992
series:
- Rookie Crisp chips
- Orangenie soft drink
- Wide Casket Greaseburgers
- Polly-O-No! string-up cheese
This was a set of 4 small humorous tape cassette labels inside
plastic cases. Instead of containing a mini-cassette tape, they
came with gum inside the case. These were art directed for Topps
by MAD magazine editor Nick Meglin. Unlike Wacky Packages, these
labels were not spoofs of specific products or recording groups.
- Rapping Roaches
- Brothers & Sisters -- greatest tattletales of all time
- Zits Greatest Hits
- The Barf Boys
2004 -- All-New Series 1
This new release of Wacky Packages contains both older unpublished
art, and some new paintings by John Pound, Tom Bunk, Zina Saunders,
from Jay Lynch gags.
Promo sheet includes these older Wackys painted by Pound:
- "Plop on Pop" book by Dr. Flussh (was not printed
in final release)
- Scary Kitchen Scorned Beef Hash
- Sludgesicle Sludge Pops
- Choperation game
- Welt's Tomb & Buried grape jelly
In the 2004 sticker series, these Wackys were painted by John
Pound. Items with asterisk (*) were unpublished art from earlier
1991 and 1992 Wacky series.
- 4 -- Chimps Ahoy
- 9 -- Hairy Patter book
- *13 -- Gravestones vitamins
- *15 -- Lame Boy video game system
- 16 -- Frosted Snakes
- 25 -- Who Cares? Bears
- 29 -- Bottled Baby Poop
- 30 -- Bling Pup
- *34 -- Choperation game
- 36 -- Sneakers
- 37 -- Pus Pop
- (*39 -- Antenmann's cake -- an unpublished 1991 Pound painting
was replaced by a similar one painted by Zina Saunders, for 2004
release)
- 42 -- My Little Phony
- *44 -- Smellio's Pizza
- *47 -- Sludgsicle Sludge Pops
- 48 -- Sicken McSluggets
- *50 -- Welt's Tomb & Buried grape jelly
- *51 -- Gormel Scary Kitchen Scorned Beef Hash
These Wacky Packages sticker back fake "coupons"
were also painted by John Pound (numbers are different than for
the fronts):
- coupon 1 -- Battery-operated Battery
- coupon 4 -- Vinnie's Brooklyn-English translator
- coupon 7 -- International Gravel
- coupon 9 -- Puppy Press
- coupon 11 -- Gum-Flappin' Gina doll
2005 -- All-New Series 2
This release of Wacky Packages has 4 paintings by John Pound:
- 8 -- TIRED Liquid
- 12 -- SALMON JOY
- 39 -- HOUNZ Tomcat Cat-Chunks
- B4 -- (Bonus sticker) PLOP ON POP book by Dr. Flussh (unpublished
art from earlier 1991 / 1992 Wacky series.)
2006 -- All-New Series 3
This release of Wacky Packages has 6 paintings by John Pound:
- 6 -- WATCHEMACRAWLIT
- 9 -- LIFESAVINGS
- 22 -- CADBULLY
- 27 -- STUMBLEBEE
- 52 -- ENERGEYSER
- F7 -- (Foil sticker) LIQUID BUMMR
2006 -- All-New Series 4
Includes 6 paintings by John Pound:
- 2 -- ORCA-SELTZER
- 4 -- SPAZ
- 6 -- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN DUO
- 15 -- DA VINCI COLD book
- 24 -- HOGGIN' DOGZ ice cream
- 26 -- FROGRESSO soup
2007 -- All-New Series 5
Includes 3 paintings by John Pound:
- 31 -- TUNG mix
- 47 -- HIVORY soap
- B4 -- (Bonus sticker) VISE potato clamps
2007 -- All-New Series 6
Includes 4 paintings by John Pound:
- 4 -- Bird Eyes
- 19 -- Anvil Soft
- 37 -- Slum Chips
- 53 -- Quiet Pupsi
2008 -- Wacky Packages Flashback
- B2 -- (Bonus Sticker) BURGER THING (First published in the
1985 series.)
2008 -- Wacky Packages (Abrams Hardcover Book)
- -- SEA HONKIES (1992 "Lost" Wacky Packages sticker
inserted in a little cellophane envelope stuck to the inside
back cover)
2008 -- Wacky Packages Flashback
2
- 63 -- DR. SUSHI (from 1991 series.)
- 70 -- SCARE BEARS "Lost Wacky" (created for the
unpublished 1991/92 series.)
- 72 -- UNLUCKY DOG "Lost Wacky" (created for the
unpublished 1991/92 series.)
2010 -- Wacky Packages New New New (2nd Abrams Hardcover Book)
- -- GHOUL TALK (1992 "Lost" Wacky Packages sticker
inserted in a little cellophane envelope stuck to the inside
back cover)