Lynch, a childhood friend of Spiegelman's who worked on Wacky Packages, Garbage Pail Kids and other Topps series, agrees. "Wacky Packages just formed an island of subversive underground culture in the surrounding sea of junk." "It was all done as Part of a Day's Work, much like the way early comic books were made: they certainly weren't made as art, they weren't sold as art, and they weren't thought of as art," he says in the book's introduction.
#WACKY PACKAGES SERIES#
In the preface to the new book "Wacky Packages" (Abrams), a collection of the first seven series of the Topps cards, Spiegelman - yes, the same Art Spiegelman who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Maus" - remembers the creation of Wackies as being "a dream job," but something that would probably be forgotten. Not that Topps, or more specifically illustrator Art Spiegelman and writer Jay Lynch - goaded by Topps' Woody Gelman and Len Brown - knew the import of the work. So, to Wacky Packages, I can only say: Thank you. At 9 years old, I became hooked on the Topps-brand sticker series of product parodies, which recast Cap'n Crunch as "Cap'n Crud" and Nestle's Quik as "Nutlee's Quit" ("Explodes Instantly with Milk").įrom there, it was a short trip to Mad magazine, "Saturday Night Live," National Lampoon, punk rock, trolling used-book stores and record stores, and indulging in other mind-rotting activities (memorizing trivia, creating puns) until I became the skeptical, disillusioned writer you have before you.
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