Wacky Packages by The Topps Company
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Book Reviews of Wacky Packages
Book Review: Wormy
Summary: 5 Stars
This is (at least one of) the logical extensions of Warhol, to the extent that the representation and/or the "idea" of the product is theoretically no different than the product itself. Actually, it's more interesting than Warhol; it's satire that is automatic, mass produced, and not the least bit funny.
Yes, the reproductions are unreasonably beautiful, and I'm not just saying that because I had a Wacky Packages fetish when I was a kid. "Hawaiian Punks" has always been my favorite. There is something about the red and green mushed-up glob of a former human being, as he seems to ooze off the sticker, that is just as transfixing to my adult eye as it was to my far less discriminating 10-year-old self.
This is cultural detritus raised to an utterly undeserved level. I feel like tearing all of the pages out and framing them properly. The apocalypse will be arriving when?
Book Review: Fantastic! Pure Fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is pure fun! I love it so much. It's a bargain price too. It's printed and put together very well. I think this book is one of the best things in the world. It's a treasure. It's a small hardcover book. The dust cover is made of the same waxy wrapping material they use for trading cards. It has some bonus wacky packages stickers inside the back cover. I paid much more for some books that I didn't like nearly as much as this one. I bought some wacky packages stickers when I was about 8 yrs old and I had a wacky packages t-shirt then too. I'm gonna start buying a bunch of wacky packages cards and things now that I have a lot of money to spend, which I didn't have as a kid. Product parodies will always be popular. I've seen lots of t-shirts with product parodies. Wacky packages rules! It's right up there with Ed Roth's rat fink artworks and other great pop culture things.Book Review: A fun, nostalgic look at the classic Wackys
Summary: 5 Stars
This well-executed book has excellent large-size reproductions of the first seven classic Wacky Pack series'. Shot from the original Topps film in most cases, the great artwork by artists Norm Saunders, Jay Lynch et al. is sharp and stunning. If you collected these as a kid, the rush of nostalgia is overwhelming. The intro by Art Speigelman and afterword by Lynch are nice bookends to the cards reproduced within. The only slight disappointment I felt was at the lack of further information on the series' creation and subsequent success. This is only hinted at in the intro and ending essays. I would have found it fascinating to see more rough sketches and at least a few more pages with Topps' insider history and staff anecdotes about these classic cards. That small complaint aside, this is an outstanding pop-culture book.Book Review: From Wacky to Zippy
Summary: 5 Stars
As one of the cartoonists who created a few of the Wacky Packages shown in the book, my view of the project is far from objective---but I thought it was fun to see such pop ephemera resurface 34 years later as an Abrams art book! Who would've thought, back in 1974, as I cruised the aisles of the San Francisco Safeway with Art Spiegelman, hunting for likely targets, that our little barbs sent at consumerism and package design would have such staying power? I shudder to think it, but more people probably saw my "Generally Demented Light Bulbs" or "Kentucky Fried Fingers" Wacky Packs than ever read one of my Zippy comic books.
-Bill Griffith
Zippy:Walk A Mile In My Muu-Muu(Zippy (Graphic Novels))
Book Review: Garbage Pail Kids Book Next
Summary: 5 Stars
Please Please Please Publishers !
I have been wishing for a full sized complete Garbage Pail Kids Book,
since I first saw "The Topps Vault" selling the original GPK paintings on ebay.
They were around 6 or 8 inch big and did not have the GPK logo & names across the top or bottom.
Just all ART ! Mostly John Pound's from poundart com..
Each painting sold for $500 to $1500. Sadly I could not afford one and have not yet seen one in person.
So I really hope this is a sign that Topps does indeed have a digital archive of these full sized, logo and name free original GPK art work !
Please Topps release a GPK book next !!! All us 80's kids are ready to buy !