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		John Kricfalusi is one animation's weirdest success/tragedy stories.
		But the crazed cat/chihuahua couple recently received a reinvention on the Spike TV network with John K. back at the helm.
		John K. took some time to talk without about Ren, Stimpy, what went wrong, and what went right.
	www.gamestar.com /11_04/pause/pause_disc_renstimpy.shtml (715 words)

	Sody Pop Rides the Carousel: A Tale of Two Independents
		Kricfalusi is notable for reaching into the archetypal conventions of late 1950s/early 1960s cartoons and reinterpreting them through both his own and prevailing cultural filters.
		Kricfalusi was able to express his vision using a graphic style that was as unique to the 1990s as Hubley’s was to the 1950s.
		To call Kricfalusi’s cartoons "edgy" is to woefully understate the fact; his hyper-kinetic shorts spew emotion like spittle flying from the mouth of a raving maniac (which Kricfalusi could easily become when pitching his ideas to studios).
	www.awn.com /mag/issue5.02/5.02pages/goodmanjohns.php3 (557 words)

	John Kricfalusi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canadian-born animator John Kricfalusi, as seen in a 2003 promo created for The New TNN (later to become Spike TV).
		For many years, Kricfalusi (pronounced /ˌkɹɪs.fə.ˈlu.si/) drew low-end studio television cartoons (the best one in Kricfalusi's opinion was the The Jetsons revival) before being 'rescued' around 1985 by director Ralph Bakshi (whom Kricfalusi had worked for before at 2 brief periods in 1981 and 1983).
		Kricfalusi's first finished project was directing the animation for the Rolling Stones's 1986 music video of Harlem Shuffle [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Kricfalusi (599 words)

	John Kricfalusi
		Kricfalusi has also endured his share of loss, particularly when he parted in the early '90s with Nickelodeon, which retained all rights to the show and has continued to generate a pale imitation of the program's glorious first two years that pains its creator.
		Although Kricfalusi and his crew have a reputation as being bad guys who don't play by the Hollywood rules (that is, they don't strive to make everything as intelligence-insulting and as executive-pleasing as possible), they're generous with their fans.
		Kricfalusi doesn't want to be remembered simply as the guy who paved the way for Beavis & Butt-head, although, as he put it, "You've got to be diggin,' pokin' and sniffin' around if you're gonna have any fun in life." Instead, he yearns for a greater immortality.
	www.angelfire.com /wi/RenStimpy2000/SFKircIntv.html (807 words)

	bOING bOING DIGITAL
		Viacom's clever lawyers had taken Ren & Stimpy away from their creator, John Kricfalusi, and handed the series over to a bunch of grim corporate hacks who hadn't an inkling of what the cartoon was all about.
		JOHN: There's one where he's about to plummet into the moon in his rocket ship and the other one he's doing repairs outside the rocket ship but he has an oxygen leak in his suit and his head's exploding.
		JOHN: It's a little rubber cartoon character, bent-over, with a hole in its butt, and you stab your pencil into it.
	boingboing.net /johnk.html (829 words)

	Ren & John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kricfalusi's now working in the comic-book medium with the introduction of his new Spümcø Comic Book.
		He may not be animating our Saturday mornings, but Kricfalusi's zest for life's weirder side is still of interest to his fans.
		When I reached John K. for this interview, he was still clad in his pajamas.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/comics/01-96/JOHN_KRICFALUSI.html (1619 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - John Kricfalusi launches new cartoon
		Thirty-six is the most manly age, says Kricfalusi, who called in from his Spumco animation bunker in Ottawa.
		Kricfalusi, who seldom backs down from a fight over creativity (he rants that sappy TV fare like Tiny Toons is killing children's television) pleaded with the network shrinks for over an hour.
		Kricfalusi pitched Ripping Friends to Nickelodeon a dozen years ago but was turned down.
	jam.canoe.ca /Television/TV_Shows/R/Ripping_Friends/2001/09/08/pf-733464.html (583 words)

	Ren & Stimpy Revived! - Jul 17, 2002 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		TNN said Tuesday that it has tapped John Kricfalusi, creator of the early '90s animated cult classic, to produce all new adventures featuring the perpetually perturbed asthmatic Chihuahua Ren and his gullible feline friend Stimpy.
		Kricfalusi, who provided the original raspy voice for Ren (including the catchphrase "You Eeee-diots!") during the 'toon's first season on Nickelodeon in 1991, will be handling vocal chores for the new episodes, which will be produced by his company, Spumco.
		Kricfalusi was fired during the show's second season in 1992, after butting heads with Nickelodeon executives who wanted him to tone down the show's gross-out humor (which paved the way for South Park) and trippy story lines.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,10257,00.html (619 words)

	John Kricfalusi Wants To Teach You To Cartoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Kricfalusi Wants To Teach You To Cartoon -- John K. the creator of Ren and Stimpy wants to teach young artists how to cartoon right, and he's giving away the lessons for free on his blog.
		John has perceived rightly that much of the groundwork of great animation that was laid during the golden era of animation (1928-1960) has been lost.
		John K. is seemingly one of the last animators that works consistently in that fully rounded volumetric style of animation which is why his cartoons are so great compared to his contemporaries, and he wants to teach you the rules of that animation.
	www.aquadoodiloop.com /index.php?id=1002 (301 words)

	Ren & Stimpy: The Lost Episodes - PopMatters Television Review
		But instead of capitalizing on his success (as Bakshi attempted), Kricfalusi saw popularity pollute his cartoon cat and mouse dichotomy, and after a brief tenure with the series, he was shown the door.
		Kricfalusi has frequently noted that the circus midget-hating fire chief from the first short was loosely based on his old buddy; here Bakshi voices the character, with repulsively rib-tickling results.
		Kricfalusi uses the episode to one-up the original X-rated animation pioneer, turning the fire chief into a morbidly obese, chain-smoking moron dimmer than a burned-out light bulb.
	www.popmatters.com /pm/tv/reviews/ren-stimpy-the-lost-episodes (1207 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Kricfalusi: There's good stuff out there -- there always is. But I think, in some ways, TV has shot itself in the foot by making the whole viewing experience so torturous.
		Kricfalusi: The ad business is in a quandary now, too, because as much as everything gets drenched with advertising, nobody pays attention to any of it.
		Kricfalusi: People throw the word "censorship" around all the time, but I don't think censorship is really the problem with the quality of film and TV.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/film/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001096312 (973 words)

	John Kricfalusi
		John K. has also directed a music video for quirky Icelandic pop goddess Bjork, and a movie called "Troop Beverly Hills" which starred Shelley Long.
		John is considered by many animation fans as the latest in a short list of visionary animators that include "Tex Avery", "Chuck Jones", "Fred Quimby", "Bob Clampett" and "Walter Lantz".
		One of the main elements which sets Kricfalusi apart from most in the field is his incredible graphic style; a much needed shot of ink in the arm of the assembly line, computer generated homogenized, me too world of cartoons.
	www.canadians.ca /more/profiles/k/k_john_kricfalusi.htm (146 words)

	Mike Judge Interview by John Kricfalusi
		JOHN KRICFALUSI: I guess they thought it would be cool to have two corrupters of youth together in the same interview.
		JOHN: I watch the show a lot, it's actually my favorite cartoon, and the characters you're doing are much more subtle than what I do.
		JOHN: One of my favorite ones is when they show up at the gas station and they want some gas but they don't have anything to put it in.
	www.inthe80s.com /july1995/animate/beavis.html (4776 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Ren & Stimpy Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons: Uncut
		John Kricfalusi, a journeyman animator working for Filmation on cartoons like the updated Beany & Cecil and Mighty Mouse, had a dream of producing his own series with his own twisted characters.
		Kricfalusi and Camp called their new production company "Spümcø" and history was born, with the success of The Ren & Stimpy Show (and the enormous amount of money Nick made in licensed merchandise) making the show second only to The Simpsons in influencing the 1990's renaissance in creator-led, adult-friendly animation.
		Despite becoming a runaway hit, the collaboration between John K. and Nickelodeon was a stormy one, with the network making continual demands that Spümcø tone down the racy material and John K.'s perfectionist bent running the company over budget and past deadlines.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/r/renandstimpy.season01.shtml (656 words)

	The Revival of Classic John Kricfalusi Programming Petition
		That dream...is to see John Kricfalusi's works(Ren & Stimpy, The Ripping Friends, etc.) viewed somewhere, completely uncut, uncensored, and without the hinderence of certain companies which have not allowed the full potential of John K.'s works to be seen by the public eye...
		John Kricfalusi and the people at Cartoon Network seem to be happy with one another, as I've seen a few of John's warped takes on certain Hanna Barbera cartoons played on their channel.
		If John and the Cartoon Network executives put their heads together, and planned it all out, I'm certain that John's wonderful shows could be seen on Cartoon Network, or, at the very least, on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" programming line up, which consists of animated programs with some swear words, "adult content," and the sort.
	www.petitiononline.com /JohnK/petition.html (345 words)

	IGN: Interview: John Kricfalusi
		Kricfalusi: There weren't as many t*ts, but there was art to replace it with.
		Kricfalusi: No, but they seem to be interested in making some more.
		Kricfalusi's series comes to a close with this set.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/719/719569p2.html (1066 words)

	John Kricfalusi
		Kricfalusi's creative team promptly engaged a Mad magazine approach to the new series: anything funny, strange or successfully weird made the final cut.
		Kricfalusi, whose primary influences include veteran animators Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones and Tex Avery, formed the creative organization: Spumco in Canada, reportedly named after a long-forgotten acronym.
		Kricfalusi went on to create The Ren and Stimpy Show, a cartoon series for Nickelodeon featuring an asthma-hound chihuahua named Ren Höek (voiced by Kricfalusi), and a cat, named simply Stimpson J. Cat (voiced by Billy West).
	www.nndb.com /people/574/000044442 (602 words)

	George Liquor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George was created by Kricfalusi in the late 1970s or early-to-mid 1980s immediately after seeing a building called "George Liquor" (it was supposed to say "George's Liquor").
		When Kricfalusi was fired, he was given ownership of George Liquor, under the conditions that George could never be a child molester or mass murderer (to which Kricfalusi responded "how many murders does it take for him to be considered a 'mass murderer'?").
		John K. recently announced that a direct-to-DVD George Liquor movie is in the works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Liquor (382 words)

	PopCult Magazine
		Here we are several years after this interview, and John K.'s Spümcø has finally gotten its second chance at a mass audience.
		John Kricfalusi, Ren and Stimpy mastermind and known Canadian, has got problems.
		John Kricfalusi made it his quest to change that–to bring back the production method of having cartoonists create their own cartoons and draw their own story boards, instead of having non-cartoonists write non-cartoony scripts.
	www.popcultmag.com /obsessions/profilesingreatness/spumco/spumco1.html (1302 words)

	John Kricfalusi Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kricfalusi moved to Hollywood from his native Canada in 1980.
		Kricfalusi moved from studio to studio doing small animation jobs until Ralph Bakshi made him the director of CBS' revisionist "The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse".
		After a year at CBS, Kricfalusi moved to ABC to helm the remake of the 1960s classic cartoon "Beany and Cecil".
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/189693 (462 words)

	4 color rebellion » John Kricfalusi Blog
		John Kricfalusi is best known as the creator of Ren & Stimpy.
		Well, one time during college we went to an animation festival in Ottawa Canada and John K happened to be one of the speakers.
		John got up on stage and presented some of the most bizarre and shocking animated shorts I’ve ever seen.
	www.4colorrebellion.com /archives/2006/02/16/john-kricfalusi-blog (276 words)

	all kinds of stuff: The Importance Of Having A Lot Of Influences
		When I started doing paintings for the Tenacious D project with john, we pretty much took my existing painting style that I've already developed and added specific techniques from a variety of completely different artists to create a dynamic environment suitable for the scenes.
		John, this would have to be one of the best posts I've seen.
		I've always loved John for his independent streak and without it there would probably be no ren and stimpy.
	johnkstuff.blogspot.com /2006/09/importance-of-having-lot-of-influences.html (9830 words)

	The DVD Clinic Movie Review of Ren & Stimpy: Seasons Three and a Half-ish
		Because the show got taken away from the brilliant mind of John Kricfalusi and his company Spümcø, and dumped into the lap of Nickelodeon and a new company, Games Animation.
		John K. makes some pretty snide comments during many of these, but I guess I would be upset too if my baby was taken away.
		It is certainly nice to hear John Kricfalusi back in fine form, but the track itself is rarely funny, and completely repetitive.
	www.joblo.com /reviews.php?mode=joblo_dvds&id=883 (949 words)

	The Secret Origins of Ren & Stimpy - The Spümcø Ren & Stimpy Archive! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Kricfalusi is a man with a mission.
		John looked at Joel and asked what he was laughing at, and Joel, between gasps of laughter, only could point at one of the names on the mailboxes...Ren Hoek.
		John explained that the building manager's name was Ren Hoek, and that yes, he did have a bizarre name.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /russell/105/rsorigin.htm (784 words)

	The Complete Uncensored Unbelievably True Ren & Stimpy Story! - The Spümcø Ren & Stimpy Archive! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A Cartoonist with an attitude, John K. as he is known to his pals, had been drawing since he was a small child.
		John K. in particular, was determined to see the day when cartoonists made cartoons again.
		Kricfalusi, Camp and seasoned animation veterans Jim Smith and Lynne Naylor vowed to carry on the tradition of giving artists opportunities based on their raw talent rather that their experience.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /russell/105/partone.htm (2457 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Reigning Cat and Dog: John K. on the staying power of 'Ren & Stimpy'
		Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi (aka John K.), who's toting a smorgasbord of his Spumco brand cartoon delights down to the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown for four shows on Aug. 13 and 14, has had more than his share of run-ins with contrary TV executives.
		His addled feline and wise-ass chihuahua were instant hits among kids and weird adults when they debuted on Nickelodeon in 1991, but ugly face-offs with the higher-ups at the channel threatened to scuttle the careers of America's favorite barely domesticated duo.
		John Kricfalusi will be at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown at 7 and 9:45pm hosting his own personal animation extravaganzas on both Saturday, Aug. 13, and Sunday, Aug. 14.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-08-12/screens_feature3.html (717 words)

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