Adam White has his own trading card.

Drawn in the style of the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards that were all the rage in the mid-1980s, it shows White, wearing a T-shirt of his own design, atop a blue, one-eyed tiger. The words “Craze-One Clothing” — the name of White’s clothing line — run across the top of the card.

John Pound, who drew the original Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, also drew the one of White, the first in a series of five Garbage Pail Kids tribute cards that White and Pound began discussing a decade ago. The other four have yet to be released.

Like most of his friends, White, 30, collected Garbage Pail Kids — gross-out trading cards spoofing the Cabbage Patch Kids — when he was in elementary school.

He had a several-year obsession that waned in the late ’80s, when he gave most of those cards away and all but forgot about them.

Until the late 1990s, when two things happened.

White began collecting Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, eventually accumulating thousands, as well as Garbage Pail buttons, coffee mugs, posters and an actual Garbage Pail Kids garbage can.

He also bought the original artwork from one of the early Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, which put him in touch with Pound.

The two hit it off, White said, and discussions for the tribute line began.

For years, it didn’t quite work out. Pound was busy, or White didn’t have the money to commission the artwork for the cards, which, like the originals, include a peel-off sticker on the front of the card, and a comic strip on the back.

Finally, it did.

And other children of the ’80s have taken notice.

White has already sold about a third of the first run of 1,000 cards.

Juxtapoz, an alternative art magazine, ran two short stories about the cards on its Web site, including this plug for White’s project, which ran on June 20:

“If the Garbage Pail Kids inspired you as a youth like they did us, you’ll definitely want to hit up crazeone.com and order your stickers soon … .”

Blurbs about the cards have also appeared on assorted art blogs and in Non-Sport Update, a magazine for collectors of non-sports trading cards, spurring collectors to pre-order their cards.

“Some people have told me they were going to frame it, front and back,” White said.

Which is all flattering, he said.

He’s having an open house at 18 Tigers to celebrate the launch of the cards Friday.

He plans to display his original John Pound art, and perhaps to show the Garbage Pail Kids movie.

In addition, part of White’s collection of Garbage Pail Kids is on display — and for sale — at 18 Tigers.

Five-card packs sell for a few dollars, depending on the rarity. He has some mugs, buttons and posters for sale, too.

“Here and there people pick up a pack,” he said.

They seem to be one of those things that everyone remembers fondly, that everyone collected at some point.

Which makes his most recent project even cooler.

“What could be better than having your own card?”

Reach Cara Pesek at 473-7361 or cpesek@journalstar.com.