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 gave credit to Martha Nelson Thomas, the original creator of these dolls. Roberts would later create a series of country-inspired toy bears called the Furskin Bears. Due to the commercial success of his Little People line Roberts had already become a self-made millionaire by the age of 26. Other artwork by Roberts has been featured in galleries such as the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. His creations also became part of the State of Georgia's permanent art collection after Roberts presented three Little People to Georgia Governor George Busbee. Roberts designed and built his own house with help