![]() Some of these are predictable-Crest became Crust, Popular Mechanics became Unpopular Mechanics-and some were terrifically out there, like Twinkies cast as the truly weird Hostile Thinkies (”Blow Your Mind-Brain Filled”). Their concept was simple: to ruthlessly parody the American national pastime-the slavish pursuit to fulfill a homogenized, corporate-sanctioned vision of the American dream. If pop was considered “low” in its time, Wacky Packs must have been thought deviant at best, artless garbage at their most misunderstood. The end products were sold to impressionable young American minds. Artists like Art Spiegelman, Jay Lynch, and Kim Deitch would draw a “rough” (a sketch insidiously miscasting a product like Kentucky Fried Chicken as Kentucky Fried Fingers) that might undergo various concept and design edits before the era’s ace commercial artist Norman Saunders painted a final that was then printed as a sticker. First appearing in corner stores in 1967, these product lampoons were generated studio style, much in the way old Hollywood scripts were. New New New presents larger than life-size images of the individual cards making up series 8–14 (1974–1975), the height of the Wacky Packs’ riotous and subversive power. Wacky Packages New New New is the second volume on the history of the Topps Company’s Wacky Packs, wax-wrapped packs of stickers that pin-pricked the inflating megaballoon of American commercialism. Well guess what: it did exist its finest examples are still available at moderate sums on eBay and its bathetic, curmudgeonly glory is now collected in two handsome books. This hypothetical pop would have been less Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, more Peter Saul, Mad Magazine, and countercultural skepticism. It would have caricatured advertisements that convinced Americans to buy products of suspect quality and egregious health concerns-often made in sweatshops-that they didn’t need anyway. It would have scorned the equation of consumption with self-consummation. It would have ridiculed a postwar culture fat with self-congratulation. There should have been a whole strain of American pop art in the ’60s and ’70s that never could have been misinterpreted as complicit or celebratory. John Phillip Santos's The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire: A Tejano Elegyby Callie Enlow Wacky Packages New New Newby Nick Stillman Justin Spring's Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegadeby Jason Baumanįrederic Tuten's Self Portraits: Fictionsby Thomas Bolt Josiah McElheny's The Light Club and A Prismby Sabine Russ The Books's The Way Outby Peter MoysaenkoĮndless Boogie's Full House Headby Clinton Krute Inner Views, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Studio Museum in Harlemby Patricia Spears Jonesīrandon Downing's Lake Antiquityby Ben Mirov Gaspar Noé's Enter the Voidby Lena Valenciaįrédrique Bergholtz and Iberia Pérez's (Mis)Reading Masqueradesby Christopher Stackhouse Jameson Ellis's Improved M16 Prototype #1 I am writing to inform you of what i am doingby Christian Hawkeyĭrawings from 21 Love Poems and The Fried Tale (London Zoo)by Caroline Bergvall No alternate checklist was made.Dying Is All I Think Aboutby Alissa Nutting It was replaced with Boozo on the sheet (a safe choice as it is a Topps product). In fact nobody realized it was pulled until a sheet without it was seen in 2001. Big Muc was pulled very late in production (it is not noticably rarer).The Backs: All stickers in the 7th series are tan backs.They also used a green box and a different box for the gumless packs.The "without titles" version is tougher to find.As in the 6th series they used both the with titles and without titles yellow boxes.The Boxes: They used four different boxes for this series."My-T-Fink Dessert" is misspelled as "Desert" on the checklist.Checklists/Puzzle: The flip side of the checklists form a Boozo Puzzle.Except for the gumless packs which are unique to the 7th series.Packs: Packs have two stickers, a checklist, and a piece of gum.Timeline: This series was released in late Spring/early summer 1974.Thumbnail indices to images of the 7th Series Vote for your favorite 7th Series stickers ![]()
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