TIL Garbage Pail Kids were created out of spite for Cabbage Patch Dolls

Posted by GeetarEnthusiast85@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 161 comments

I'm watching a docuseries on Tubi called "The Toys That Built America" and there's an episode about Cabbage Patch Dolls. There's a segment about how at the height of the doll's popularity, Topps reached out to Xavier Roberts, who owned the copyright for CPD about producing Cabbage Patch Kid trading cards. Roberts found trading cards in general to be low brow and said no. So out of spite, Topps artist Art Spiegelman created Garbage Pail Kids to lampoon Cabbage Patch Dolls. Unrelated but Spiegelman is also the author of the excellent graphic novel Maus. TIL