This documentary is a celebration of 30 years of the Garbage Pail Kids bubble gum cards. It is jam-packed with interviews and stories from the original creators of the controversial and explosively-popular 1980’s card series. Grown-up kids share nostalgic memories of what it was like to be a part of an international phenomena. Superfans give us a peek at what a 30-year amassment of Garbage Pail Kids memorabilia looks like. We explore the rich cartoon art and trading card history that bred this culture icon and proclaim Garbage Pail Kids as a solid mark of the 20th Century.
30 YEARS OF GARBAGE: The Garbage Pail Kids Story explores these topics:
- Popularity of the controversial, counter-culture, kid-targeted art form
- Brief history of comic and sport trading cards
- Legendary case of parody copyright lawsuit
- Original trading card art paintings of puking, zitty and snotty dolls reaching sky-rocketing market prices
Featuring:
- Art Spiegelman – Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic novel artist/writer of MAUS
- John Pound – original GPK artist
- James Warhola – original GPK artist/ nephew of pop-art icon Andy Warhol
- Adam F. Goldberg – Producer/Creator of abc hit, The Goldbergs
- Actors from ’80s film Garbage Pail Kids the Movie: Mackenzie Astin, Debbie Lee Carrington, etc.
Release date: July 1st, 2016
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