Desc: 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story: Directed by Jeff Zapata, Joe Simko. With Art Spiegelman, Len Brown, Tom Bunk, Mark Newgarden. In the 1980s a bunch of underground cartoonists parodied a popular doll. The resulting commercial product tapped into the international kid zeitgeist. That young generation felt that this product spoke to the revulsion they had for the corporate pop culture that was being fed to them.