John painted over 400 of the approximately 700 GARBAGE PAIL KIDS paintings made. They are listed below by sticker number (for first US appearance). The highest published sticker was #620. Published GPKs not in this list were painted by other artists.
Unpublished GPKs are not listed here, as they have no official number or name. (Yes, some GPKs were too weird or disgusting for Topps!)
Series Sixteen was completed, and was scheduled to be published in 1989, but it was not published. Years later, many of the Series 16 paintings were published in the 2003 GARBAGE PAIL KIDS All-New Series 1 release, along with some new art. More paintings from Series 16 were later published as "LOST GPKs" subsets in the GPK FLASHBACK sets.
Some of the large puzzles on the backs of GPK stickers were made from John's paintings on the fronts.
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SERIES SIXTEEN (1988 -- unpublished) 20 unpublished paintings. Some of these were later used in the All New Series 1 2003 GPK release. See below. |
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SERIES ONE (2003) |
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SERIES TWO (2004) |
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SERIES THREE (2004) |
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SERIES FOUR (2005) (5 basic designs: snot, drool, nail-in-head, barf, Adam Bomb) |
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SERIES FIVE (2006) |
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SERIES SIX (2007) |
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SERIES SEVEN (2008) |
The GPK Flashback sets reprint older GPK paintings (not listed here), and add in some "LOST GPKs" unpublished art, and other subsets.
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from unpublished art: 65 66 67 68 69 |
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from unpublished art: 66 67 68 |
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from unpublished art: 69 70 |