Yes, I am planning the return of Grossville High. I acquired my former partner's share of the rights a few years back and am now in total control of the series. I've already started preliminary development of the new Grossville High Class of 2014 cast of characters which I will then submit as a Kickstarter Project to raise funds for production. I am going to offering various rewards for different levels of giving including, signed limited edition enlarged prints of cards, AND a limited number of opportunities for fans to have their own faces used as models for official GH students or faculty members. If this proves successful and sales of the cards do well once launched, my hope is to issue an annual series of cards, plus a special 30-year class reunion set of the original series from 1986 to be issued in 2016. Ronnie the Roach will return as well and will grace EVERY card this time. Time frame? I'm not sure yet but a full itinerary will be included in the Kickstarter presentation. Shoot me another email in September and I'll update you on progress. Obviously I want cards on the market as early as possible in 2014. To raise additional funds if necessary, I may even put some of the original 1986 artwork up for auction on ebay. I still have 65 of the original 66 pieces, including the first one ever done, Peter Picker, and the infamous Joe Stereo that Fleer made me change from African-American to caucasian because they were afraid of repercussions. I actually created the new face over the old one because I didn't want to redo the entire card, so I imagine an x-ray might reveal the original Joe's face.

As for GPK, I've been following their comeback, and the later designs show much more creativity than the old. That's a challenge I hope to meet with Grossville as we attempt to reboot the series with 21st century grossness. But there's no way I can compete with Topps unless a competing company were to show some interest. Barring that I plan to forge ahead on my own.

I also have a rough draft of a Grossville High story I did years ago that I would like to develop into a graphic novel with the hopes of getting it onto the screen. I think Grossville High would make a fantastic film with all the computer animation available today.

And tell folks to hang on to their 1986 collections because if this relaunch is successful, the original cards will go up in value. The first and only set had a very limited print run making them much more scarce than the GPKs. I just secured the domain name grossvillehigh.com. I'll get a website up and running ASAP so I can start disseminating official announcements.


Thanks again.


Gary