Rick Raccoon

Rick Raccoon from Shirt Tales seen here in sticker form found in my wife's childhood sticker book.

J. Slice

J. Slice is an anthropomorphic watermelon and is the mascot of the National Watermelon Promotion Board. He is available in "sticker" form above (which is just an image you can download and print out on your own sticker paper). According to Watermelon.com, J. Slice "was developed using feedback from focus groups made up of adults who have daily interaction with the youth market and elementary school-aged children." Those focus groups must've been pretty extreme because not only does J. Slice skate, but he also surfs, snowboards, rollerblades, wears sunglasses, plays soccer, and battles his nemesis, Professor Junk Food. He's not too extreme to not wear full pads but doesn't bother with a helmet since his head has already been smashed in.

Chiseled Spam

This sticker has a copyright of 2002 on it but I remember it hanging on the wall at Reptilian Records in Baltimore in the late '90s. A quick search shows that an older version has a 1996 copyright to PosterPop (without the .com). Coop did a ton of work for a ton of bands at that time (cover art, flyers, shirts, stickers, etc) and his work is easily recognizable. I always pondered buying this sticker at Reptilian but I was poor college student and felt that I should be spending $4 on a 7" rather than a sticker. I guess I'm doing well enough to afford this sticker now.

Lee Cooper Poly Denim

You don't often see anthropomorphic critters with more than 2 feet skating, but Lee Cooper comes in with a 14 legged caterpillar (or maybe centipede?) pushing pretty hard. Judging by the artwork and board shape I'd say this is probably from the mid to late '70s.

McDonaldland Stickers

These four character stickers are from 2000 and feature the more well known inhabitants of McDonaldland (unfortunately no Fry Guys though). Birdie the Early Bird gets top billing here for multiple reasons, not the least of which is the ruling nature of breakfast in general. She is also the only one not rocking a bike helmet (or maybe her googles are just masking it). Aside from the helmets, this set is drawn pretty well, especially considering the last time Ronald appeared here he looked more like he was practicing Tai Chi than skating. Grimace looks about what you would expect a creature of his girth to look like on a board, which is actually a little less rad than his last appearance. Hamburglar looks like he is bombing a hill, which might be the only time it would not be a horrible idea to skate in a cape. It is also a good skill to have for a known criminal in a land with only one police officer.

Wacko-saur

This card is part of a series called Wacko-saurs, a cheap Garbage Pail Kid ripoff that put dinosaurs in wacky, or in this case radical, situations. As with GPK cards, this is a sticker and the back is 1/9th of a larger graphic (in this case it appears to be a larger version of the same graphic). Also keeping to the GPK model, Skate KATE shares her likeness with her twin, SCOTT Board.

Not Man

I've seen a couple Anthrax skateboard related graphics but this is definitely my favorite. Their mascot, Not Man, is pictured here pushing hard and rocking the flipped up hat and Dogtown Suicidal Tendencies deck. I once met a collector of metal band skateboards who had, along with a slew of Metallica decks, an official Anthrax deck with a variation of this graphic on a blue background.

No Wimps

No wimps! These type of stickers seemed ubiquitous back in the 80s. My friend found a couple of these along with some "No Nerds" stickers (featuring Nerds candy crossed out) a couple years ago. This sticker features J. Wellington Wimpy cruising on a longboard (probably on his way to bum some hamburgers).