Brent Engstrom

Brent Engstrom grew up collecting random Garbage Pail Kids cards with his twin brother, picking out ROY Bot as his personal favorite from the third original series. When Topps took him on in 2006, the initial project put him directly into the sticker line he had collected as a boy, but his trial painting of Mark Pingatore's Armless AARON was not approved. His accepted work began in All-New Series 5 with ESTHER Basket, painted from a Jay Lynch concept, accompanied by a second piece titled PAUL Package. Brent worked on six base cards for All-New Series 6, generating every one of those ideas himself, and he rendered both of those early series entirely by hand.

Tight turnarounds pushed him to adjust that manual approach, and he began integrating Photoshop during the production of All-New Series 7, starting with Kickin' it Old Skool. Between 2006 and 2026, Brent received credit for 1518 cards across the brand.

That body of work includes characters such as SI Borg, Bionic BYRON, DOROTHY Droid, Predator PRESCOTT, and Must-See MALCOLM. His work on Garbage Pail Kids spanned twenty years, from 2006 to 2026.