Art Spiegelman for comic books. Spiegelman began teaching at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1978, and continued until 1987, teaching alongside his heroes Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner. Spiegelman had an essay published in "Print" entitled ": An Idiosyncratic Historical and Aesthetic Overview". In 1990 Spiegelman he had an essay called "High Art Lowdown" published in "Artforum" critiquing the "High/Low" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. In the wake of the success of the Cabbage Patch Kids series of dolls, Spiegelman created the card series "Garbage Pail Kids" for Topps in 1985. Similar to the "Wacky Packages"
American Girl American Girl American Girl is an American line of dolls released in 1986 by Pleasant Company. The dolls portray eight- to eleven-year-old girls of a variety of ethnicities. They are sold with accompanying books told from the viewpoint of the girls. Originally the stories focused on various periods of American history, but were expanded in 1995 to include characters and stories from contemporary life. Aside from the original American Girl dolls, the buyer also has the option to purchase dolls that look like themselves. The options for the line of Truly Me dolls include eye color, eye shape, skin color,