Hello Fell-o
Cidu Bill on May 29th 2010
Keera: Mostly LOL, a bit eww. There are so many fun details in this! It had me laughing several times. “Soylent Green flavor” made me go “eww!”
Filed in Bill Bickel, Ewww, Mark Parisi, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol | 7 responses so far
Kamino Neko May 29th 2010 at 12:11 pm 1
For anyone who didn’t catch it - due to not growing up in the right era, not growing up in the right country, or just having parents with taste…this, Dave (posted here a little while ago), and the others from that week were clear tributes to Wacky Packages - right down to copying the card layout.
George P May 29th 2010 at 01:14 pm 2
I had (and maybe still have at my parents’ house) a clipboard covered with the entire 1973 set. I loved those.
Igelino May 29th 2010 at 03:24 pm 3
Thanks for the brain nudge, Kamino. I thought I had seen the style somewhere but couldn’t place it.
Dr. Shrinker May 29th 2010 at 04:36 pm 4
If you were a fan of Wacky Packages, check out this:
http://www.amazon.com/Wacky-Packages-Topps-Company/dp/081099531X/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Jeff S. May 29th 2010 at 06:17 pm 5
I have an uncut sheet of Wacky Packages stickers. I collected them when they were first released and still think they are pretty funny. “Chock Full of Nuts and Bolts”, “Logg’s”, “Crust”, “Tied”, and so on. Awesome stuff!
George P May 30th 2010 at 05:38 am 6
Thanks to this discussion I discovered that a coffee table book of the first seven series was released in the last few years. From the reviews I gather that many of them are from high quality color separations.
Elyrest May 30th 2010 at 11:12 am 7
Thanks, Kamino for the reminder of Wacky Packages. I hadn’t connected the comics with them till you pointed it out. I never had them when I was a kid, but my brothers did so I saw most of them at one time or another.
George P - They made a coffee table book of these? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. There is a market for most anything.