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Post by pepé on Dec 29, 2013 19:02:33 GMT -5
In the late 80's, Panini stickers had a lot of success here in France. I still own some of the stickers albums I purchased when I was a kid : soccer albums, movie albums (ET...), animated series albums (Thundercats...). But when "Les Crados" series were released, it was a real tsunami. My friends and myself were fascinated by these cards. I can remember the newspapers and the TV news talking about "Les Crados" phenomenon and how some people were saying these cards were a danger for kids. A debate took place in the National Assembly. Even le Commandant Cousteau wrote an open letter to denounce these cards... Just wanted to share this letter with you to let you know how surrealist it is... Here comes the original letter (picked from www.lescrados.com/) :  And the translation (sorry for the rough english  ) : The Garbage Gang
No, it’s not about chemical, industrial or atomic pollution. The Garbage Gang is now attacking the youth, because their creators decided to make a fortune by polluting the spirit of our children.
“La bande des Crados” just spread in newspapers kiosks and broke into all our schools. Surprise and dismay for most of the primary school teachers and for the fraction of parents who still care about their children.
Tintin or Gaston Lagaffe adventures are going to be replaced by Honoré Vapété (I’m not inventing anything), Jeanine Lapine, Pascal Troudeballe or Mathieu le Dégueu and his friends adventures. A large stickers album is given for free to children, but each pack -containing 4 scatological stickers- is sold for 2,50 francs. A great contest is offered to children who will write the most disgusting story […].
Bravo, misters “American pofiteers”, Bravo to he French team who imported so well the garbage tsunami, Bravo to the few psychiatrists who see there a safety valve to some too-often-repressed “vile instincts”, Bravo to the authorities who tolerate these abuses for freedom sake ! This is the kind of laxity that generate excessive reactions. These obscene portraits are already sold by millions.
Parents ! If you don’t react immediately and energetically against this spirit pollution, don't be surprised if your children let themselves drift and eventually take heroin. Don’t be surprised if the excessive tolerance of Occident generate fundamentalisms success we just condamned.
Discipline remains freedom’s bulwark. |
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Post by G.Ü.N.T.H.E.R. ...........ddgr on Dec 29, 2013 19:31:45 GMT -5
Wow, Jacques went off there  |
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Post by pepé on Dec 30, 2013 10:17:28 GMT -5
Discipline remains freedom’s bulwark.  It sounds like a sentence extracted from Orwell’s 1984… The worst part of it is that I really liked this guy when I was a kid. Every Sunday, one of his documentaries was broadcasted on French TV and it was always fascinating for me. It made me discover the secret world of see… It seems this guy was talking about animals way better than he was understanding human beings…
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Post by G.Ü.N.T.H.E.R. ...........ddgr on Dec 30, 2013 12:01:29 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember watching his shows on public television when I was a kid. He is/was pretty legendary. I guess stuff like this is why I don't really buy into worshipping celebrities/public figures, we just don't really know them. Maybe he had good intentions, but sounds like he might have been worried about his show? He probably inadvertently made Crados even more forbidden/cool for kids.  |
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Post by Jimbo on Dec 31, 2013 21:57:10 GMT -5
"Parents ! If you don’t react immediately and energetically against this spirit pollution, don't be surprised if your children let themselves drift and eventually take heroin."
Yeah, I know when I was a 7 year old kid, as soon as I bought a few packs of GPK at the corner gas station with my lunch money, I visited my local heroin dealer.
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Post by ワジ kalas on Jan 1, 2014 14:38:16 GMT -5
yepp Jacques dove a few times to deep....   |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2014 14:40:54 GMT -5
BTW a copy of that letter and some more reading about it could be found in the Les Crados book published recently.
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Post by pepé on Jan 1, 2014 15:48:34 GMT -5
"Parents ! If you don’t react immediately and energetically against this spirit pollution, don't be surprised if your children let themselves drift and eventually take heroin."Yeah, I know when I was a 7 year old kid, as soon as I bought a few packs of GPK at the corner gas station with my lunch money, I visited my local heroin dealer. In the second series, Avimages (the firm who adapted the GPK in France) used #349 Polluted Percy / Barnacle Bill to laugh at Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his letter : in French, this character became “Jacques-Yves Aladérive” -translation : “Drifting Jacques-Yves”.  In the “Crados” albums, a funny sentence is written under every card and here is what can be read under “Drifting Jean-Jacques”: Jacques-Yves steals every single Crados card which is lying around  |
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Post by G.Ü.N.T.H.E.R. ...........ddgr on Jan 1, 2014 16:24:11 GMT -5
 That's awesome. It reminds me of a lawsuit Carl Sagan had with Apple about using his name as a project codename, so they changed it to "BHA" (Butt-Head Astronomer).
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Post by pepé on Jan 2, 2014 5:27:37 GMT -5
That's awesome. It reminds me of a lawsuit Carl Sagan had with Apple about using his name as a project codename, so they changed it to "BHA" (Butt-Head Astronomer). |
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Post by robslob on Jan 2, 2014 11:37:54 GMT -5
yep.. me too.. here I am right now smoking crack while I go through my gpk collection
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Post by ワジ kalas on Jan 2, 2014 12:19:05 GMT -5
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Post by pepé on Jan 2, 2014 14:09:25 GMT -5
If some people -like Cousteau- blamed Les Crados for being a danger, some others laughed at these protesters, like Cabu (a famous French satirical cartoonist) who made this caricature:  Cousteau-la-censure (the name of the character) means Cousteau-the-censor… [edit] RIP Cabu...  |
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Post by robslob on Jan 2, 2014 14:25:13 GMT -5
If some people -like Cousteau- blamed Les Crados for being a danger, some others laughed at these protesters, like Cabu (a famous French satirical cartoonist) who made this caricature: Cousteau-la-censure (the name of the character) means Cousteau-the-censor… LOL that's pretty awesome! |
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Post by robslob on Jan 2, 2014 15:10:16 GMT -5
jeeesus Chenduz should sketch up a GPK called Krokodil Lil could be cool huh? |
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Post by pepé on Jan 3, 2014 18:25:00 GMT -5
Tomahawk, a french artist, created a cards set inspired by Les Crados. I talked about it here : garbagepailkids.proboards.com/thread/14428/gpk-tributes-french-artists?page=1&scrollTo=184430In his new set called "Los Incognitos" (which is still in progress), he plays with famous people names :  "Fidel Gastro(enteritis)"  "Kim Juggler" I'm talking about this cards set in this thread because Tomahawk chose to make a card with Cousteau (and reminded the story of the letter on his blog) :  "Costaud" (sounds close to "Cousteau") means "hefty". |
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Post by pepé on Jan 7, 2014 17:10:56 GMT -5
I just found a video from 1989... Roland Topor is interviewed in a TV show about a movie in which he participated. At the end of the video, the host is asking Topor what he thinks about Les Crados controversy. I have to tell you first that Topor is a great french artist. Here come some exemples of his work :      SO, when the host of the TV show is asking Topor what he thinks about Les Crados, here comes the answer of the artist (01'11'') : I think they stole everything from me ! (he's joking... or maybe not completely...)The funny thing is how the french and spanish clergy get upset...Arrabal (a spanish novelist) told me : "you know, in Spain, the priests are really mad at Les Crados... |
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Post by pepé on Mar 17, 2014 14:11:33 GMT -5
"Hara-Kiri", a french satirical magazine, released an issue dedicated to Les Crados in the late 80's. This magazine was pretty libertarian and was laughing at conservative people like Cousteau...  Here comes a translation of the title : Porn Garbage Pail Kids to bug CousteauThis Explorin' Norman looks like a freaking pervert... |
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Post by robslob on Mar 17, 2014 15:43:15 GMT -5
"Hara-Kiri", a french satirical magazine, released an issue dedicated to Les Crados in the late 80's. This magazine was pretty libertarian and was laughing at conservative people like Cousteau...  Here comes a translation of the title : Porn Garbage Pail Kids to bug CousteauThis Explorin' Norman looks like a freaking pervert...  hahahaha she's like thinking.. wow norm is everything you got that long?
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Post by pepé on Mar 17, 2014 18:14:53 GMT -5
hahahaha she's like thinking.. wow norm is everything you got that long? |
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Post by pepé on Aug 30, 2015 11:15:01 GMT -5
As I said previously, when "Les Crados" series were released back in 1989, it was a real tsunami here in France. A debate even took place in the National Assembly about the danger it could represent for kids... and I just found out a copy of the French National Assembly report from May 1989 in which the speech of a politcian against Les Crados is reported ! French National Assembly report – 8th of May 1989 
Children (child policy)
12774. – 8th of May 1989 – Mr Christian Estrosi is calling Mr Minister of the Interior’s attention to the mushrooming of sticker cards which are particularly degrading for children. Indeed, “Les Crados” are currently invading our country. One hundred and twenty four characters symbolizing the human being vilest aspects are so served up to children. Lying, hypocrisy, cowardice and also violence are the “Les Crados” characteristics. Some prominent figures, child psychanalists denounced the bad effects of this pseudo-comics on children’s psychological balance. Some doctors even talked about a possible increase of anxiety attacks for fragile children who would be addict to these cards. Other people say that these cards go against all the principles of a developed society knowing how to master its impulses by culture and education. So Mr Estrosi is asking if Mr Minister of the Interior is thinking about forbidding the sale of these cards which are particularly dangerous to children.Sorry for the rough translation. "Some doctors even talked about a possible increase of anxiety attacks for fragile children who would be addict to these cards. "  |
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Post by pepé on May 9, 2016 8:41:00 GMT -5
I already showed it elsewhere on the forum :  This drawing by the french comics artist Jean Solé was used for the cover of a famous comics magazine ("L'Echo des Savanes") in 1978. The page is extracted from his comics "Carnets intimes" and Solé explains how he discovered that his drawing concept was used for a GPK card (OS5 Handy Randy / Jordan Nuts) : In the early 90's, the Crados phenomenon spread in schools playgrounds. The symbolic card of this series, from the USA, was a non-signed plagiarism of my "L'Echo des savanes" cover. Encouraged by my colleagues, I took legal proceedings. Then I learnt that the anonymous person who made this plagiarism was Art Spiegelman who was doing there a casual job. Art, that I admire, confirmed the information to me.
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Post by pepé on May 9, 2016 8:46:04 GMT -5
A recent video on Les Crados history (in French...) :
Far from being exhaustive but still interesting...
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Post by pepé on Aug 22, 2016 17:20:20 GMT -5
Following the wild success of Les Crados releases, Elvifrance (a French erotic comics publisher) launched in 1991 a series of stickers called "Monsters" :    Looks like a blend of Basil Wolverton's Ugly Stickers and Panini stickers...  In these packs of cards, there were also some assorted tricks (these cards were called "Les Gerbos") :   I liked that kind of stuff when I was a kid... |
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Post by mttbrntt on May 21, 2018 17:37:55 GMT -5
Merde alore!!!!
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Post by pepé on Jun 22, 2018 2:32:34 GMT -5
A 1989 TV report on Les Crados... 
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Post by Cory on Jun 22, 2018 12:40:42 GMT -5
A 1989 TV report on Les Crados... French kids loved them some GPK. |
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That's awesome. It reminds me of a lawsuit Carl Sagan had with Apple about using his name as a project codename, so they changed it to "BHA" (Butt-Head Astronomer).
