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| Wacky Packages | 
 enlarge | Author: The Topps Company
Creator: Art Spiegelman
Publisher: Abrams
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 4143
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 081099531X
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9780810995314
ASIN: 081099531X
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
This is how it should be done May 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you still have wacky package stickers on various pieces of your parents' furniture, you'll love this book. They did the smart thing and gave each sticker from the first 7 series their own page. No freaky layouts. It's just pure joy flipping through the pages.
This is pure perfection. They need to come out with a second volume with the remaining stickers.
A True Treasure! ! ! ! June 10, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read about this book in Rolling Stone Magazine and purchased it through Amazon immediately. When I was a kid, I spent all my money on Wacky Packs (1973-74). I was 7 years old in 1973, and Wacky Packs cracked me up. This book is just amazing. The paper cover over the hard cover is made with the same paper they used to package the Wacky Packages. The pictures are beautiful. The forward was very interesting.If you pull back the paper to reveal the hard cover, you will find a pleasant surprise. That surprise is different on the back so look both places.
Wacky Packages book. June 24, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wacky Packages
This is a great book. It's the next best thing to having a Wacky Packages sticker collection, the image quality is very good. Everything from the creative hardcover design to the wax paper cover and the package of rare stickers...Awesome!
Highbrow lowbrow June 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book may be one of the most pointless things I ever needed to have. The production is gorgeous, down to the waxy Topps paper the dustcover is printed on. If you're looking for a lot of scholarly insight it's not here. Art Speigelman's brief intro tells you everything you need to know, the rest is pictures of the stickers. For a designer, this book is pure inspiration - wacky wordplay, pastiche, essence of package design, etc. And the price is terrific.
Wormy June 30, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is (at least one of) the logical extensions of Warhol, to the extent that the representation and/or the "idea" of the product is theoretically no different than the product itself. Actually, it's more interesting than Warhol; it's satire that is automatic, mass produced, and not the least bit funny.
Yes, the reproductions are unreasonably beautiful, and I'm not just saying that because I had a Wacky Packages fetish when I was a kid. "Hawaiian Punks" has always been my favorite. There is something about the red and green mushed-up glob of a former human being, as he seems to ooze off the sticker, that is just as transfixing to my adult eye as it was to my far less discriminating 10-year-old self.
This is cultural detritus raised to an utterly undeserved level. I feel like tearing all of the pages out and framing them properly. The apocalypse will be arriving when?
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