Joe Simko Autographs
Joe Simko is a New York City based illustrator who is contributing as a current lead artist/writer to Topps’ Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages trading cards. He is the producer and co-director of the Garbage Pail Kids documentary film, 30 Years of Garbage. Illustrator/author of the book series, The Sweet Rot, and has designed artwork for bands, creating album covers, tour posters and concert shirts for such acts as Metallica, Gwar, Misfits, The Vans Warped Tour, etc. His project Cereal Killers Trading Cards, 1st Series was released May 2, 2011. The Cereal Killers cards spoof breakfast cereals with popular horror films. Joe wrote and painted all 55 cards for the first and second set and launched the series through his company, Wax Eye. 2nd Series was released through Wax Eye in June 2012.
He is the creator of Craniacs with former Topps senior VP executive Ira Friedman. Craniacs is an all-ages trading card series and is currently in development with Titmouse, Inc for an animated television series.
Joe Simko was born in Meadowbrooke, PA, and raised in Southampton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1999 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cartooning. He was the very first recipient of the now annual Joe Orlando memorial award from his graduating department that year. Among Simko’s instructors at the School of Visual Arts were Joe Orlando (VP of DC Comics and associate editor of Mad), Klaus Jansen, Sal Almendola, and Carmine Infantino.
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Current items with a signature of Joe Simko
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Traded items with a signature of Joe Simko
The most expensive item with a signature of Joe Simko (?2024 Cardsmiths Killer Klowns Autograph Card Joe Simko #KKP1 AUTO SSP ONLY /50) was sold in July 2026 for $688.00 while the cheapest item (2013 Wacky Packages ANS 10 sketch Card NUTT'S APPLE SAUCE Signed By Joe Simko.) found a new owner for $1.99 in October 2023. The month with the most items sold (30) was May 2025 with an average selling price of $41.88 for an autographed item of Joe Simko. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2026 with $75.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $12.25 was February 2023. In average, an autographed item from Joe Simko is worth $39.99.
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