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"
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American satirical musical melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, Phyllis Davis, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett, and David Gurian. The film was directed by Russ Meyer and co-written by Meyer and Roger Ebert. Originally intended as a sequel to the 1967 film "Valley of the Dolls"—"dolls" being a slang term for depressant pills or "downers"—"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" was instead revised as a parody of the commercially successful but critically reviled original. Three young women—Kelly MacNamara, Casey Anderson, and Petronella "Pet"