Magic Trashman's Trading Cards
Every order from Magic Trashman's Enchanted Junkyard comes with a random business/trading card in the hopes of catching your eye and bringing you back (perhaps in more ways than one if nostalgia has any pull on you.) Each has been personally illustrated by the Trashman drawing on decades of graphic design and typography experience increasingly made irrelevant by the advances of contemporary technology and cultural trends. Oh well. Print-ready by Fall of 2024.
Duck Face Baseball Card Front
Spoof of the infamous 1989 Fleer Bill Ripken baseball card, where the end of the bat facing the photographer had an expletive written on it which somehow got past editors for a brief window before it was replaced with a censored print.
Duck Face Baseball Card Back
The reverse side faithfully follows the layout of the 1989 Fleer series with some attempt at humor, as well as mimic the rough grain of coarse cardboard that trading cards were usually printed on.
Cereal Box Front
Satirizing a staple of 1980s/1990s weekday -and- weekend morning rituals throughout the western world, absurdly unhealthy sugary breakfast cereals and the mascots that graced their boxes.
Cereal Box Back
Here the QR code poses as the activity maze often found on the back of the box.
HuCard Front
Homage to Magical Chase, a stellar SHMUP video game published on the TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine. Featuring a cameo of the Astro Sphinx giving pursuit in the back. An expensive game nowadays.
HuCard Back
A pretty straightforward spoof of the back of a game cartridge. Despite its commonly poor reputation 13 is frequently considered a lucky number depending on the culture referenced.
GPK Card Front
Chances are you collected or have seen Garbage Pail Kid cards and the Magic Trashman was no exception. GPK itself was a parody of Cabbage Patch Kids.
GPK Card Back
A wanted poster for an unrepentant criminal.
Kool-Aid Packet Front
A short lived competitor/alternative to Kool-Aid drink mix for a flavor profile that should never be considered viable for human consumption.
Kool-Aid Packet Back
Some fun with the standard layout of a nutrition facts label, with the QR code posing as the UPC code and a reference to the Kool-Aid Club.
VHS Movie Box Front
The Lawnmower Man is a truly underappreciated masterpiece of early 1990s cinema and its cutting edge CGI has not aged a bit.
VHS Movie Box Back
The back features the Trashman as Jobe and Astro Sphinx as a lil' cyberchimp. The optimism of 1990s internet was fun if short lived.
MAD Magazine Front
MAD Magazine was (is?) a legendary publication that informed many a youth of their sense of humor, with art that likely inspired many would-be artists too.
MAD Magazine Back
The back is a tribute to Al Jaffee's reliably clever Fold-In found at the end of every issue. Included here is the solution to save you the trouble of bending your card!
Collectible Card Game Front
This is a playful riff on collectible card games in general, but in particular focusing on the 800 pound gorilla known as Magic The Gathering. The early art was often still traditionally illustrated and sometimes charmingly naive.
Collectible Card Game Back
Magic Trashman was there, thousands of years ago when people were ripping up their Chaos Orbs and sprinkling the confetti onto the playfield. Before netdecking and color-coded rarity icons!
Poker Card Front
Homage to the timeless design of Bicycle Playing Cards.
Poker Card Back
Standard poker card, among the oldest and most well known of cards. Plus a little twist on the adage of Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None, Yet Better Than A Master Of One.