Never really collected Garbage Pail Kids though..probably because even as satire, I really loathed that Cabbage Patch Kids craze they were poking fun at (I loved your Cabbage Patch Clone cartoon though). On the other hand I loved anything that made fun of advertising, which was basically what Wacky Packs did. You could have had a blast with something like that.

I’ve always been curious about something: Do the artists for stuff like that get to create their own material, or were they illustrating someone else’s ideas?

Oh Gosh…you did Bazooka Joe strips? I recall someone did a satire on those with Joe and Mort descending through the rings of hell a’la Dante.

I’m amazed at how much of that pasty pink chewing gum I went though in my childhood. The cartoonists can definitely say they brought the customers in on those, because I know I’d never have bought that awful gum all by itself. I don’t think anybody would have.