John K.
Biographical Information
Birthday: September 9, 1955
Birth Place: Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada
Biography:
Canadian-born cartoon cartoonist Kricfalusi began his career by
working on low end Saturday morning cartoons like the Jetsons
revivial and Fat Albert and the Cosby kids. In 1987, Kricfalusi's
mentor, 'Ralph Bakshi' , "saved" him by hiring him as supervising
director on his show _"The New adventures of Mighty Mouse. The show
was canceled after a scene where Mighty Mouse sniffed a
flower to get superpowers and some people thought he was using
cocaine. Soon afterwards, Nickelodeon bought his twisted brainchild
The Ren and Stimpy Show. But after continuous battles over script
content and control, he was fired from his own show in 1992. After
he was fired, he furthered his fight for creative freedom by
founding a website where he sold dolls of his other characters. He
then hired some of his
old Ren and Stimpy co-workers and produced
the first 'made for the web' cartoon series The Goddamn George
Liquor Show.
He also created and produced "Weekend Pussy
Hunt" another 'made for the web' series. Other work includes
directing a Yogi Bear short for Cartoon Network, directing a music
video for Bjork. In 2001 he returned to TV with the Saturday morning
cartoon for Fox Kids called The Ripping Friends, which he created
and produced. In 2003 Spike TV (formally
TNN) hired Spumco to create new Ren & Stimpy Episodes, these were
called Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon. So far only 3 have been
shown, with another 3 done and ready to go. |