Craniacs Announces New Partnerships
3.21.2025, 6:29:45 PM
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3.21.2025, 6:29:45 PM
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Trading card property, Craniacs, is on the move in 2025 with an eagerly awaited Series 2 in stores this spring, a highly anticipated TV series in active development from animation studio, Titmouse (“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Star Trek: Lower Decks”), and brand-new adventures in comic books, coming in the Fall from Titan Comics.

Created by former Topps senior executive, Ira Friedman, and lead Garbage Pail Kids card artist, Joe Simko, Craniacs trading cards launched in October 2023. The artwork and storyline have hit a nerve with fans and collectors who are having fun chasing exclusive inserts including: 1/1 sketch cards, foil cards, sequentially numbered variants and a “golden ticket” card entitling the grand prize winner to an original painting from the card series.
In the Craniacs universe of skull-headed folks, two planets collide and force two very different societies – Stone-Aged Retrovia and ultra-futuristic Futerra – to figure out how they’re going to make this new world order work or not. (Hint: this often results in crazy competitions in the ‘Chrome Dome’ to settle their differences!)
“We cannot be more jazzed about joining forces with the Titan Comics team and collaborating on Craniacs,” say Friedman and Simko in a joint statement. “Our popular trading cards have set the stage for Titan to build upon the foundation of a unique and highly imaginative universe. We can’t wait to see the characters and storyline expand in exciting new directions. And, with Titan at the helm, we know that fans are in for a wild and wonderful ride.”

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