Mark Pingitore is a Philadelphia-born professional illustrator/animator who has done the artwork for over 100 Garbage Pail Kids card fronts as well as concept work, sketch cards, and paintings for various other trading card series, such as Adventure Time, Wacky Packages, The Walking Dead, Mars Attacks, Hollywood Zombies, and Cereal Killers. He has also painted the covers of The Garbage Pail Kids comic book for IDW. He has also created his own parody series Disasters of the Universe and Horrorible Kids.