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A design and marketing agency commissioned this tee-shirt design as a gag gift for one
of its clients. It mimics the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards that became a craze in the mid-1980s.

The original cards would often feature a kid who was half-and-half. The inspiration for this particular kid, was the client’s oft-repeated assertion that his employees were “half-geek, half-human.”

Scroll down for detail images, including a photo of the guy who was transformed into a GP Kid for this occasion.

illustration that mimics the Garbage Pail Kids bubble gum cards that were a craze and very popular back in the 1980s shows a half-and-half kid one half a normal guy with khaki pants and loafers and button-down shirt, the other half a geek with loud ugly clothes, high-water pants pocket-protector, calculator, toolkit, iPhone, and untidy appearance

detail image for illustration that mimics the Garbage Pail Kids bubble gum cards that were a craze and very popular back in the 1980s shows a half-and-half kid one half a normal guy with khaki pants and loafers and button-down shirt, the other half a geek with loud ugly clothes, high-water pants pocket-protector, calculator, toolkit, iPhone, and untidy appearance

illustration that mimics the Garbage Pail Kids bubble gum cards that were a craze and very popular back in the 1980s shows cartoon kid and real person he was based on, half-and-half kid one half a normal guy with khaki pants and loafers and button-down shirt, the other half a geek with loud ugly clothes, high-water pants pocket-protector, calculator, toolkit, iPhone, and untidy appearance

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