# Gross-Out art styles a-la Garbage Pail Kids and Ren & Stimpy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650 "2020-05-29T07:08:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/1 "2020-05-29T07:08:42Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/2 "2020-05-29T07:34:10Z")
Can I assume you’re familiar with [Ed Roth’s Rat Fink](https://www.ratfink.com/)? 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. ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/3 "2020-05-29T07:35:37Z")
The [Mars Attacks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks) cards that Topps put out in 1962 probably fit the bill, they were pretty controversial back then for [gory](https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/marslead020515_465_327_int.jpg) and [implied sexual](http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Stuff/MarsAttacksCards/images/17.jpg) content. The [Dinosaurs Attack](https://youbentmywookie.com/wookie/gallery/0916_dinosaurs_attack_topps/dino%20attack_13a.jpg) Topps series from 1988 is even grosser. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/4 "2020-05-29T07:58:18Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > Can I assume you’re familiar with [Ed Roth’s Rat Fink](https://www.ratfink.com/)? > > 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. That looks like inspiration for 80’s and 90’s Music Video animation, (Butthole Surfers??) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/5 "2020-05-29T08:39:09Z")
The Squidbillies is pretty gross. But, hilarious. Several famous musicians do their music. It’s a different one every episode. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/6 "2020-05-29T08:51:51Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > 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 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/7 "2020-05-29T10:26:31Z")
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](https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/483081497501034298/) and [Odd Rods](https://www.pinterest.com.au/holdencross8/odd-rods-sticker-card/). ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/8 "2020-05-29T12:20:45Z")
Uh, [Slug Signorino](https://www.straightdope.com/the-slug-signorino-faq/)? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/9 "2020-05-29T12:23:49Z")
[Basil Wolverton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Wolverton) was a pioneer of the form. [https://images.app.goo.gl/pusxuoTb1kaazq159](https://images.app.goo.gl/pusxuoTb1kaazq159) [https://www.motherlode.tv/art/basilwolverton.html](https://www.motherlode.tv/art/basilwolverton.html) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/10 "2020-05-29T12:27:45Z")
[Basil Wolverton](http://andreslombana.net/blog/2012/05/05/the-grotesque-imagery-of-basil-wolverton/) is pretty awesome. He’s famous for drawing [Lena the Hyena](http://fantagraphics.com/flog/barks-does-lena-the-hyena/) in Li’l Abner and grotesque caricatures in Mad Magazine. edit: ninja’ed! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/11 "2020-05-29T12:28:41Z")
I was also reminded of [Mark Ryden](https://www.markryden.com/), 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\*. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/12 "2020-05-29T12:33:51Z")
[Ivan Albright](https://www.google.com/search?q=ivan+albright&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR7emritnpAhXskOAKHbBTAwwQ_AUoAXoECBwQAw&biw=1728&bih=832) was also quite yucky. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/13 "2020-05-29T13:01:23Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > 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? 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: > **[80 Tom Bunk ideas | toms, bunks, illustration art](https://www.pinterest.com/rolandeath/tom-bunk/)** > > Mar 22, 2016 - Explore Rolandeath Hamburg's board "Tom Bunk", followed by 357 people on Pinterest. See more ideas about toms, bunks, illustration art. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/14 "2020-05-29T13:38:14Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > [Basil Wolverton](http://andreslombana.net/blog/2012/05/05/the-grotesque-imagery-of-basil-wolverton/) is pretty awesome. He’s famous for drawing [Lena the Hyena](http://fantagraphics.com/flog/barks-does-lena-the-hyena/) in Li’l Abner and grotesque caricatures in Mad Magazine. > > edit: ninja’ed! THIS is gold. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/15 "2020-05-29T13:43:47Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > [Ivan Albright](https://www.google.com/search?q=ivan+albright&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR7emritnpAhXskOAKHbBTAwwQ_AUoAXoECBwQAw&biw=1728&bih=832) was also quite yucky. This is also interesting. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/16 "2020-05-29T14:43:47Z")
How about Robert Crumb and Harvey Pekar? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/17 "2020-05-29T14:58:42Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > [Basil Wolverton](http://andreslombana.net/blog/2012/05/05/the-grotesque-imagery-of-basil-wolverton/) is pretty awesome. He’s famous for drawing [Lena the Hyena](http://fantagraphics.com/flog/barks-does-lena-the-hyena/) in Li’l Abner and grotesque caricatures in Mad Magazine. > > edit: ninja’ed! Lena Hyena also made an appearance in _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_, but she didn’t look anywhere near as gross there: > **[Lena Hyena](https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Lena_Hyena)** > > Lena Hyena is a minor character in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. She is a crazy and ugly Toon woman who Eddie Valiant encounters in Toontown after mistaking her for Jessica Rabbit. She has pale skin, with... [https://www.backofthecerealbox.com/2013/11/lena-hyena-roger-rabbit-lil-abner.html](https://www.backofthecerealbox.com/2013/11/lena-hyena-roger-rabbit-lil-abner.html) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/18 "2020-05-29T15:05:16Z")
[Wacky Packages](http://www.wackypackages.org/wackypacks.php) were all the rage at one point. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/19 "2020-05-29T15:21:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. 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. > **[The Checkered Demon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Checkered_Demon)** > > The Checkered Demon is a fictional character created by S. Clay Wilson, one of the leading underground comix artists of the 1960s. The character debuted in 1967 in Groulish magazine; his comix debut was in Zap Comix #2, in 1968. > Checkered Demon stories — many of which were one-pagers — ran in many issues of Zap, and then occasional issues of Robert Crumb's Weirdo anthology. Stories also ran in Wilson's own comics, such as Pork (1974), and the Demon's own title (mostly collecting a strip which... ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650/20 "2020-05-29T15:53:39Z")
A Garbage Pail Kids collection was recently (and unexpectedly) discussed on Antiques Roadshow. > **[Antiques Roadshow | PBS](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/24/san-antonio-tx/appraisals/1985-topps-garbage-pail-kids-series-1-2--201902T24/)** > > Check out Travis Landry's ANTIQUES ROADSHOW appraisal of this 1985 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 & 2 from McNay Art Museum, Hour 2! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-out-art-styles-a-la-garbage-pail-kids-and-ren-stimpy/854650.md?page=2)