Garbage Pail Kids trading cards were released in a marketing angle to provide a humorous socio-cultural counterpoint to the marketing of the harvest-themed Cabbage Patch Kids dolls.
Garbage Pail Kids, unlike their more sociable and farm-optimism Cabbage Patch Kids counterparts, are iconographs of odd behaviors and bizarre netherworld consciousness and anti-agrarian urban morass.
We can consider how the cult following of the Garbage Pail Kids line reflects a reactionary swing towards anti-farming humor that is in many ways imprinted into comic book and manga art (i.e., Iron Man, Brainiac, Mecha-Godzilla, Akira, etc.).
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