Goosebumps creator R. L. Stine teams up Garbage Pail Kids for a first-ever GPK illustrated middle-grade series!

Goosebumps creator R. L. Stine teams up with the pop-culture phenomenon Garbage Pail Kids for a first-ever GPK illustrated middle-grade series!

Abrams Books has announced the forthcoming publication of Garbage Pail Kids #1: Welcome to Smellville, the first book in a brand-new middle-grade series by R. L. Stine!

The series will feature cover art by Joe Simko and interior illustrations by Jeff Zapata, both mainstay artists for the GPK brand for Topps. Each book in the series will be packaged with four exclusive sticker cards.

“The Garbage Pail Kids are ghastly, loud, messy, out of control… out of their minds,” says Stine. “In other words, my kind of kids. I’m hoping to create a book series that captures all the loopy slapstick fun of these uniquely awful characters, to get all middle-grade kids reading – and laughing.”

“Welcome to Smellville” will release in hardcover on October 6, 2020.

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