Image Set 1;
http://i.imgur.com/9UvXBnP.jpg
Image Set 2;
http://i.imgur.com/t6xYC3l.jpg
Remembering 'disgusting, rebellious' era of trading cards: 'Garbage Pail Kids'
"Garbage Pail Kids offered something that was not so benign and parent-friendly," Spiegelman wrote in the book's forward. "Rather, it provoked: 'Oh my god, what is that? Where did you get those? Your allowance is cut off. And you're grounded.' The dolls were pricey and had to appeal to adults. The stickers were available for chump change and appealed to the inner beast in all kids."
Even the publisher that released Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, "Maus: A Survivor's Tale," in 1986 expressed relief that his name wasn't attached to the images.
"'If this gets out, they'll review your book and call it 'Garbage Pail Jews,' " Spiegelman said his editor at Pantheon told him at the time.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/10/living/garbage-pail-kids-book/index.html
Garbage Pail Kids Original Series 1-16
http://geepeekay.com/gallery_os1.html
They were trying to normalize this stuff years ago. Or they were telling us what were doing.
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spacewitch ago
I used to love this as a child, I found it so funny. But it absolutely makes sense that it was one of their attempts at normalization of satanic/evil things.