 Spiegelman attended Harpur College from 1965 until 1968 , where he worked as staff cartoonist for the college newspaper and edited a college humor magazine . After a summer internship when he was 18 , Topps hired him for Gelman 's Product Development Department as a creative consultant making trading cards and related products in 1966 , such as the Wacky Packages series of parodic trading cards begun in 1967 . 
