Artcow Michael John Kricfalusi / John Kricfalusi / John K. / John K. Stuff / Raymond Spum - scammer animator who pissed away his own career, salty blogger, CONFIRMED predator and child rapist

All of the rumors I'd heard years ago indicated John K. was some kind of creeper but either in the sense of "older man gets hornt up over twenty-something female animators" or "John K. is deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep in the closet and is covering for it by paying outsized amounts of attention to twenty-something female animators". Nothing like this, nothing like these horrible stories at all. He was even worse than many people expected.
 
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Commander X said:
All of the rumors I'd heard years ago indicated John K. was some kind of creeper but either in the sense of "older man gets hornt up over twenty-something female animators" or "John K. is deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep in the closet and is covering for it by paying outsized amounts of attention to twenty-something female animators". Nothing like this, nothing like these horrible stories at all. He was even worse than many people expected.
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I heard the rumors too, but honestly, when the story broke, it was exactly what I expected. I saw people who were astonished by it and I realized they had no idea who the hell he really was.
 
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Perhaps I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel but I think I found another reference the Games crew made to John's obsession with Hanna Barbara:

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From the episode Aloha Hoek where Ren & Stimpy wind up on a deserted island. Featuring the voice talent of Dom Deluise doing a Marlon Brando impersonation (that was totally lost on me when I was a kid). The episode ends with Ren apparently drowning but suddenly Ren & Stimpy remove their costumes and speak like a Russian Fred and Barney from the Flintstones.
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
Anyone wanna know another John K. fun fact I recently learned?

The companies that did the animation for Adult Party Cartoon still have yet to be paid for their work.
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Yeah, I heard Carbunkle Cartoons sued him after APC was cancelled. After APC they did Rob Zombie's The Haunted World of El Superbeasto and closed up.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Yeah, I heard Carbunkle Cartoons sued him after APC was cancelled. After APC they did Rob Zombie's The Haunted World of El Superbeasto and closed up.
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Bob Jaques and Kelly Armstrong, the main people behind the company, are still working, so it's not all bad. Bob Jaques eventually got paid off in full, but John K.'s debt to the company hasn't been paid yet.
 
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Just to correct ya... Bob Jaques was not paid in full. He got a partial payment of what his company Carbunkle was owed, but it was not the full amount—just 60%, over five years after the fact. Better than nothing, but still proof of what a piece of shit John K. truly is.

Also, the "Aloha Hoek" thing ain't a dig at JK. All those R&S guys are "classic" Hanna-Barbera homos (and since Billy West can do dead-on Fred and Barney, they exploited that every chance they could).
 
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chaunceyslick said:
Also, the "Aloha Hoek" thing ain't a dig at JK. All those R&S guys are "classic" Hanna-Barbera homos (and since Billy West can do dead-on Fred and Barney, they exploited that every chance they could).
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I mean, you have to give The Flintstones credit. It was a pop culture juggernaut at the time and was a very early example of a successful, prime-time cartoon that was enjoyed by both children and adults. Hanna-Barbera did what they could with limited animation (which, for television animation before outsourcing to Korea and Japan was a thing, was the only way you could make TV animation work so you could have an episode out on a weekly basis), and even though there were arguably other studios like UPA that were doing limited animation better, they didn't have quite the impact as Hanna-Barbera did.

I just think it's funny that John K. was very obviously nostalgic about Hanna-Barbera (which, mind you, was criticized at the time as being little more than crudely-animated radio plays), while also tearing into guys who grew up in the 80's and were nostalgic for Transformers, He-Man and Thundercats for being glorified toy commercials, which... he's not wrong, but still.

People are nostalgic for cartoons that were around when they were children. Whodathunkit?
 
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Meowthkip said:
I mean, you have to give The Flintstones credit. It was a pop culture juggernaut at the time and was a very early example of a successful, prime-time cartoon that was enjoyed by both children and adults. Hanna-Barbera did what they could with limited animation (which, for television animation before outsourcing to Korea and Japan was a thing, was the only way you could make TV animation work so you could have an episode out on a weekly basis), and even though there were arguably other studios like UPA that were doing limited animation better, they didn't have quite the impact as Hanna-Barbera did.

I just think it's funny that John K. was very obviously nostalgic about Hanna-Barbera (which, mind you, was criticized at the time as being little more than crudely-animated radio plays), while also tearing into guys who grew up in the 80's and were nostalgic for Transformers, He-Man and Thundercats for being glorified toy commercials, which... he's not wrong, but still.

People are nostalgic for cartoons that were around when they were children. Whodathunkit?
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He worked on shows like that and really hated it on those shows.

(Of course, he really loved Rocket Robin Hood, so who am I to judge?)
 
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I was recently thinking of this thread when I discovered something I'd mentioned, but at the time, had not posted - John K.'s cut of "Sven Hoek." This is a workprint with no music, only voices, but it should be noted that this was his attempt at making the cartoon longer.

(Remember that no half-hour episodes were completed while John was still on the show.)

 
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