Alex G. Art, Welcome: March 2013

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Johnny Boogerseed

This is another new Garbage Pail Kids concept by me and drawn by me, I thought about him awhile back and drew him last month, just finished him today. He is a child version of American folklore figure Johnny Appleseed, sowing boogers that grow into booger trees and make booger apples. My idea, not to be used without permission. I haven't submitted him yet, and as I said I may not submit to this GPK team at Topps any longer.

I'll post this GPK on my instagram probably later today, @AlexGheorghiu.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Postage Stan

This is another new Garbage Pail Kids gag concept by me and drawn by me, I've named him Postage Stan and U.S. Mel. If anyone or any company uses this idea of mine withiout permission, I will take legal action. On the other hand if I decide to submit my idea, that is my choice. If a member of the GPK team contacts me to ask about using my idea, they can ask me by sending inquiries to my email or contacting me in some other way. However since Topps these days specifically marks their GPK products as being for ages 6+ up, this one would be considered too racy anyway. There is no postage stamp GPK in Original Series for sure, and I checked and didn't see one in All-New Series, and I know there isn't one in Brand New Series. I would be concerned if they used my gag: if they came up with a very different gag for a postage stamp GPK not involving licking, I wouldn't call them out on that, even if they were inspired by mine.

I will post this one on instagram probably today, my instagram is @AlexGheorghiu.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Expectorating Marcus

This is a new Garbage Pail Kids gag concept once again by me and once again drawn by me, I named him Expectorating Marcus, a pun on "expectorating mucus", he's expectorating a bit more than us humans can. I haven't submitted this concept and I won't anytime soon. I'm publishing him here. For his other name I may decide on Hacking Hector.

I'm about to publish him on my Instagram as well, @AlexGheorghiu.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

these GPKs

I posted on my blog here all 33 GPK gag concepts that I submitted to Topps, unless I forgot one but I don't think I did.

I'm going to post these 33 on Instagram starting hopefully tomorrow, and I'll finish drawing some that were unfinished. Check back soon.

----Alex Gheorghiu, March 9th/10th 2013

Gordon Weed

This one I named Gordon Weed/Weedy Wes/Dan Delion/Dandelion Dan/Dan de Leon.

Jack Quack

This one I named Jack Quack/Mel Practice.

Inflated Frank

This one I named Inflated Frank. The first bouncehouse GPK published (published here on my blog in March 2013) as far as I know. I submitted him to Topps in February 2013, many months before Topps first revealed their Inflated Ian GPK in BNS3 which was published October 9th 2013, and no image of Inflated Ian was in any preview I saw, anyway the first preview of BNS3 came after March 2013. Inflated Ian may well have been adapted from my Inflated Frank (compare images and names). I came close to filing a lawsuit in autumn 2013, but decided not to this time.

Mick Mouse

This one I named Mick Mouse/Whacked Walt.

Germy Jerome

This one I named Germy Jerome/Maude Bell/Germy Jeremy.

Cheeky Chelsea

This one I named Cheeky Chelsea/Annie Fanny/Big Butt Brenda.

Distracted Dan

This one I named Distracted Dan/Googling Greg/Tex Message.

Trampled Lena

This one I named Trampled Lena/Jumped Jenny.

Mad Doug

This one I named Mad Doug/Rabid Robbie/Robbie Rabies.

Heather Vane

This one I named Heather Vane/Weather Vanna.

Frozen Fran

This one I named Frozen Fran/Icy Elsie.

Starving Steve

This one I named Starving Steve/Famished Frank/Hungry Hal/Denny Dinner.

Pollutin' Pete

This one I named Pollutin' Pete/Smog Chuck.

Hookah Hugh

This one I named Hookah Hugh/Pete Pipe.

Bryan Freeze

This one I named Bryan Freeze/Brain Freeze Brian.

Junkyard Jake

This one I named Junkyard Jake/Scrap Heath/Scrap Mendel.

Ice Cream Cody

This one I named Ice Cream Cody/Eat-It-Al.

Nacho Nick

This one I named Nacho Nick and Nasty Nacio (Nacio is an existing name shortened from Ignacio, the term "nacho" is derived from Nacio, in turn from Ignacio). He is shooting his mucus onto a carton of nachos and sliced jalapenos that the kid was going to buy from him (Nacho Nick is an ice cream truck man). The nachos and sliced jalapenos were supposed to be covered by hot melted nacho cheese. The kid got something else.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Jelly Donna

This one I named Jelly Donna / Jelly Jonah (I'm looking for other names as well, I'm considering Glazed Glenn as a B or C name). The jelly-insides popping out make this GPK good to go.

Street Art

This one I named Street Art. a clarification: this is a parody chiefly of Shephard Fairey's "obey" poster, which I submitted in March 2012, before I ever saw the parody of Shephard Fairey's Obama Hope poster that Topps used for Brand New Series 2 and released as a preview after October 2012. The Obama Hope poster was/is so pervasive in contemporary culture that I don't claim that the Topps in-housers were inspired by this concept of mine.

Wild Style Kyle

This one I named Wild Style Kyle.

Pull-Up-A Cher

This one I named Pull-Up-A-Cher/Hannah Seat. I haven't decided on the background colors for the painting, this drawing here has yellow upper, blue lower background, but I'm not going to use that for other versions.

Home Boyd

This one I named Home Boyd/Capped-On Carlos/Gang-Bangin' Gilbert.

Lego Len

This one I named Lego Len or Lego Lenny. His boogers are a combination of lego and mucus. The line of mucus is made of mucus but attached to lego blocks at the end and mucus dripping out of his lego nose. I first submitted him in March 2012 using a different sketch and different layout.