Spider-Man Swingin'

This one was mostly drawn in June 1996,  then in 2013 I drew a new version on top of the 1996 drawing, keeping only some elements of the 1996 drawing. I like a good Spider-Man drawing, transports me back to the 1980s and 1990s, and depending on the drawing, even back to before my time, the 70s and 60s. But my Spider-Man drawings take me to the 1980s and 1990s.

Spider-Man crouching on a rooftop

Abduct Ted

 

 

This is another new Garbage Pail Kids concept by me and drawn by me, he's a GPK that's been abducted by short gray aliens and taken aboard a UFO craft and is being dissected by the aliens, and they are surprised and disgusted to find all kinds of junk and undigested food inside him. This idea was inspired by my mostly past interest in the UFO phenomenon as well as the 1990s TV show the X-Files. It was partly inspired also by a Garbage Pail Kid from Original 10th Series that is being dissected by intelligent frogs. I thought of this idea and drew the layout and important details and named him "Abduct Ted" before Topps published a new GPK in Brand New Series 2 on a similar theme, the card named Abduct Jed/Take Ken: that GPK is a GPK that is being beamed up by a flying saucer, in the process his skeleton and insides are being sucked up while his skin and clothes are being left on the surface. I thought of mine before I saw theirs, and as you can see my concept is very different from that one. For his other name I may choose Dee Sected, Dissect Tad or Vinnie Section (from "vivisection").

I didn't submit this one to Topps yet and I may not. I'll post him on my Instagram @AlexGheorghiu right after I post him here.

Shane Smoking

This is another new Garbage Pail Kids concept by me and drawn by me, he's a chain-smoking GPK very different from the Original Series GPK that is most like him, which is an ash-tray-like GPK from Original 6th series. My concept is a GPK that is chain-smoking in the street, a big pile of cigarette butts covering his shoes, cigarette smoke filling the air like exhaust or factory smoke, people gagging in the background, pigeons falling from the sky, a little dog dropped from his feet as well. I named this GPK Shane Smoking/Pollutin' Pete (a name that I also used for another GPK, see my blog posts from March 2013)/Pollutin' Paul/Second-Hand Hank/Second-Hand Hal/Cancerous Ken/Hazardous Hal.

I haven't submitted him to Topps, I'm publishing him here and I'll post him on my Instagram @AlexGheorghiu probably today.

April 2013

April 2013 now, I'm going to be uploading many more varied artworks of mine besides what I've uploaded so far (i.e., besides Garbage Pail Kids). I will still be uploading new GPK drawings though. I've been drawing on & off & on since I can remember, and painting on & off & on since my early teens at least, and among the artworks I plan on showing some from my teens.

Alex Gheorghiu, April 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.

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.

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.

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.