After a summer internship when he was 18, he was hired for Gelman's Product Development Department at Topps 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.
After a summer internship when he was 18, he was hired for Gelman's Product Development Department at Topps as creative consultant making trading cards and related products in 1966. He traveled to San Francisco for a few months in 1967, and began the "Wacky Packages" series of parodic trading cards for Topps in 1967.