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Gross Buster – Garbage Pail artist takes on Ghostbusters [UPDATE]

I’m apologizing to Miguel Pulido right off the bat – he sent me a scan of this awesome card he commissioned from Tom Bunk, one of the original Garbage Pail Kid artists, and I got floored by a nasty cold (still working through the tail end now) and I forgot about it until GhostbustersNews.com posted it. So, nice save by GhostbustersNews!

Hey Chris! Look, I just got this one and I thought I’d like to share it with you. Remember the Garbage Pail Kids? I’m sure you do. Well, Tom Bunk, who is one of the original GPK artists just made a commissioned piece for me. So here it is, how you like it? I think it is soooooo coooooool! I gave Tom some ideas of what I wanted and he came up with this, he’s a real nice fella. Well, glad to talk to you again. lmk your thoughts and take care!
Miguel.

For some reason though, GBNews has a very small image, so click to see the card in full, massive, embiggened detail here.

Click for full size!

For those of you too young to remember, The Garbage Pail Kids were an 80s phenomenon mocking another 80s phenomenon, The Cabbage Patch Kids. The Garbage Pail Kids were collectible sticker cards, similar to Wacky Packages (which Bunk also helped illustrate), in which disgusting and hilarious versions of Cabbage Patch Kids were featured, each with a descriptive, punny name (ie Adam Bomb.)

Awesome stuff like this reminds me of the Ghostbusters Homer sketch by Simpson’s artist Bill Morrison, or the Family Guy, one-of-a-kind sketch card released in the Family Guy card packs.

[VIA GBNews.com]

[UPDATE]
Frankov pointed out this awesome Ghostbusters Wacky Packages, though I can’t say if it’s a Tom Bunk piece or not.

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Sony still pushing Ghostbusters at Licensing Expo – Web confused by logo.

Well, I can’t imagine that this will have any real impact, but here we go – earlier today, Collider.com posted some images revealing various movie titles/logos, include a selection of upcoming Sony films. Collider neglected to list a source, but presumably it’s coming out of the 2010 Licensing International Expo, going on this week in Las Vegas. Ghostbusters has been a highly visible property at the show for the last two years, but this year, with all the talk about the third film reaching it’s highest level in years, it’s natural that people would interpret the inclusion of Ghostbusters as indicative of something about there being a third film. Actually, all it means for sure is that Sony Consumer Products continues to put a lot of support behind the evergreen film, with or without a third film.

It’s certain that the third film is coming up in discussions at the show, but before it gets out of hand (too late – several websites have reposted the Collider article as meaning something about Ghostbusters 3) this doesn’t mean anything more or less than last year. Sony loves Ghostbusters, Sony is continuing to look for new product partners to work with (like the upcoming Proton Pack backpack), and this doesn’t count as any sort of news about there being or not being made. This is Sony positioning the product – it can’t hurt in general, and if the third film does move ahead, it’s critical. So… take this as you will.

[VIA Collider]