Garbage Pail Kids Flashback "Where are They Now" Cards

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The "Where Are They Now Cards" were really fun to work on. Basically they took original GPK characters from the first few sets and show what they are up 25 years later.
Above is my final artwork for Tee-vee Stevie.
This is what the final printed card looks like.

and here's the final sketch. We had some issues getting everything on the card. knowing the banner and name bar would take up a lot of the space, I had to zoom out and make it horizontal instead of vertical.

My original pencil sketch I drew from Mark Pingatore's sketch below.

Mark Pingatore thought of the concept for this card. Here's his original concept sketch.


The second one I painted took a little longer working out the concept. This is what we ended up with. It shows Boozin' Bruce on a reality TV show similar to Celebrity Rehab, called "GPK Rehab".

Here's what the printed card looks like

My first concept shows him falling off the wagon. Literally.

My second concept shows him having a tea party with his little Hallucinations from the original card. I really wanted to tie them into the concept, but in the end it didn't happen.

Jeff Zapata thought of the concept of him being in celebrity rehab.

Here I just added some cameras and lights and stuff. I placed the spot light in the same corner as the lamp post in the original card.

Here's my third and final painting I did for the set. It's Nasty Nick. Instead of biting Barbie like on the original card, he's trying to bite a new Twilight Barbie and his dentures are falling out.

Here's the printed card

And here's the pencil rough

Here's all of the sketch cards I drew for the GPK Flashback set! In stores now! Here's a link to the official website. I'll be posting my return 10 soon!
I drew a different character on each card. It's been fun going through all the card sets and drawing my favorite kids. I drew most of them in the middle of a move, so there was a period where I had to draw them wherever I could get internet access, since I was using Barren Aaron's GPK website as reference. Thanks a lot Aaron for having such an in depth site! So I ended up drawing them in restaurants, bars, friend's houses, Wherever there was internet access and a table to draw on.
I drew 250 of them for this set plus 10 return cards. I'll be fully painting those. I haven't drawn my returns yet, so if anyone has a character they'd like, let me know! I'll be selling them!
Steve Potter posted a 10 question interview with me on his blog.
click here to to read the interview

A couple personal sketch cards

Here are some recent personal sketch cards I drew. If you would like one just email me at monkeyboycomic@hotmail.com
They are $40.00 a piece and I'll draw pretty much anything you want!

Monkeyboy in Savage Dragon!

Years ago Erik Larsen was kind enough to let me write and draw two back-up stories in a couple issues of the Savage Dragon. He even ended up coloring the whole thing. I might be wrong, but I think it was one of the first things he colored. Savage Dragon has always been one of my favorite comic books, so I can't thank Erik enough. The comics ran in issues 104 and 105 for anyone who's interested!
I've also re-designed the layout of my blog. Let me know what you think.

some portrait paintings.

For the past 5 years I've been painting portraits of people that are inducted into the baking hall of fame. Here are a few of this years inductees. They have a very specific style they want me to paint these in.