Being in Mark Newgarden’s house in Brooklyn is like hanging out in the brain of a middle-aged acid casualty. Every visible inch of space is crammed with so much grinning, bug-eyed ephemera from the last century of comics, you’d think you’d died and gone to ADD heaven. Or would it be ADD hell? Not entirely sure, but in any case, even if you were somehow able to make it past the over-stimulation and bunker down to get some work done, all that’d be waiting for you in the filing cabinets would be painting after painting of hacked-up kids and barfing monsters from Mark’s days designing gross-out cards for Topps. Mark recently invited us over to show us the cream of his crap. Vice: Jesus, where did you get all this junk?

Mark Newgarden: Was that Day-Glo antler-mount a dumpster find? A men’s club? You mean like one of those wood-paneled places where old Italian guys hang out? What’s with the fez guy? It looks like one of those old Matt Groening characters, Akbar and Jeff. Do you break into a lot of places? Crazy. Is this a working nickelodeon?

Oh, cause she’s getting naked…

verrrrrry slowly…

almost—crap. They really string you along to the last minute there. Here’s some action. I don’t remember seeing that Garbage Pail Kid. What was he going to be called? Some sort of pun on “appealing”? Garbage Pail Kids “Graffiti Petey” was always my favorite. You came up with Barfo, too, right? It looks like some sort of old Charles Burns character. Barfo I can imagine. You were also on the team for that sticker-yearbook thing Toxic High, weren’t you? How’d you guys come up with that? Toxic High Horrors of War Sort of prophetic on that front. Where’d the Bazooka Joe painting come from? Art Spiegelman said those auctions were one of the main reasons he left Topps, that it was humiliating trying to buy back his own work with the wages they were paying him. Is that why you quit, too? What were some of the ones they sat on? Ugly Americans What a bunch of chumps—I would have totally loved these guys as a kid. Is the car supposed to be fucking that guy? Oh, I get it. Again, this stuff is classic. I can’t believe they just stuffed it away. Wacky Packages Makes sense to me. Do you have any more cool tchotchkes? Psycho Ceramics Is that Hitler as one of those carnival knockdown dolls? Fantagraphics just put out a compilation of Mark Newgarden’s syndicated work from the past two decades called . Check it out at fantagraphics.com