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"
Xavier Roberts in a process known as soft sculpture. He even took her idea of issuing adoption certificates for each doll. Drawing on the early German craft of needle sculpting, and from quilting skills learned from his mother, Roberts created a line of hand-crafted dolls he called, "Little People". He and a group of friends began travelling from state to state in the southeastern United States attending craft fairs and folk art exhibitions. At them, he began selling these handcrafted dolls. He won awards for his work, including a first-place ribbon for a doll named Dexter at the Osceola Craft Show in