I don’t know why, but I love gross out art.
Does anyone know of where I can find more examples, besides the two examples in the tittle? Rick and Morty sort of dabble in it too. Any earlier examples?
Can I assume you’re familiar with Ed Roth’s Rat Fink?
I heard a talk by John K, Ren and Stimpy’s creator. I’m pretty sure he cited this as well as some of the looser Warner Bros and especially Bob Clampett cartooning as key influences.
The Mars Attacks cards that Topps put out in 1962 probably fit the bill, they were pretty controversial back then for gory and implied sexual content. The Dinosaurs Attack Topps series from 1988 is even grosser.
That looks like inspiration for 80’s and 90’s Music Video animation, (Butthole Surfers??)
The Squidbillies is pretty gross. But, hilarious.
Several famous musicians do their music. It’s a different one every episode.
I think I’m talking more about “detailed” drawings. Not just any gross out imagery will do. I have seen Squidbillies, I don’t think I recall what I’m looking for. I know SpongeBob has done it before, though
Back in the 70s there was a lot of car and truck oriented art that tended to go in the gross and extreme direction. For example Car-Toons and Odd Rods.
Uh, Slug Signorino?
Basil Wolverton was a pioneer of the form.
Basil Wolverton is pretty awesome. He’s famous for drawing Lena the Hyena in Li’l Abner and grotesque caricatures in Mad Magazine.
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I was also reminded of Mark Ryden, although his stuff is not cartoonish. He did the covers for Stephen King’s Desperation and The Regulators, and looking at his work makes my skin just about crawl* off*.
Ivan Albright was also quite yucky.
Tom Bunk, who actually drew the Garbage Pail Kids for Topps, later went on to become a Mad Magazine regular, and you can find plenty gross-out art in exactly the Garbage pail Kids style in Mad from 1990 onwards. Of course, finding Mad these days is pretty problematical (apparently it’s still being published, albeit mostly reprint, but they’re not in their old venues), but you can get older issues ort Mad colections.
Or online:
THIS is gold.
This is also interesting.
How about Robert Crumb and Harvey Pekar?
Lena Hyena also made an appearance in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but she didn’t look anywhere near as gross there:
https://www.backofthecerealbox.com/2013/11/lena-hyena-roger-rabbit-lil-abner.html
Wacky Packages were all the rage at one point.
Didn’t underground comix artist/New Yorker art director Art Spiegelman also work on Garbage Pail Kids?
Speaking of the undergrounds, the reigning ZAP! King of Yuck was S. Clay Wilson.
A Garbage Pail Kids collection was recently (and unexpectedly) discussed on Antiques Roadshow.