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

[Ilikeoreos]

Well, since you wanted to know...

The story I heard about his driving habits (I will mention I heard it on Facebook, but I won't mention who to protect their privacy) was that for a long while he had to have people drive him. When he was asked why he wouldn't learn how, he said that it was because of all those little Elmer Fudds he kept seeing.

Later, he somehow managed to get a license and bought a big fucking pickup truck. You can guess how his driving was like - he was the archetypal bad driver. Imagine every bad driver you've ever met combined into one - that was how he drove.

I hope he was joking, because anyone who claims to see little Elmer Fudds everywhere is probably a serious schizo. Then again, with John K you never know.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

When he was asked why he wouldn't learn how, he said that it was because of all those little Elmer Fudds he kept seeing.

What the hell does that even mean?

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

What the hell does that even mean?

It means exactly what it means. He saw little Elmer Fudds everywhere. Suffice it to say, in an uncharacteristic bout of restraint, he was afraid he'd get distracted and crash the car.

 

[Meowthkip]

It means exactly what it means. He saw little Elmer Fudds everywhere. Suffice it to say, in an uncharacteristic bout of restraint, he was afraid he'd get distracted and crash the car.

Whuh-

Nani the fuck?

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

How do you hear someone say that they literally hallucinate little Elmer Fudds constantly and then just keep going to work for them every day like that's not a big deal?

 

[anephric]

Like I said, his opinion on the shows is colored by his experiences at the studios. He worked at all of them and he hated working at each of them.

John K also hated DiC for other personal reasons. IIRC, Bruce Timm (who’d later become the guy behind Batman TAS and DC animated stuff) sat behind Bob Camp (who took over R&S from John K after Nick kicked him out) while they were doing layouts on Real Ghostbusters and (maybe?) StarCom.

I guarantee John K sees Timm’s long-term successs as having come up behind his own and overshadowing his completely.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

John K also hated DiC for other personal reasons. IIRC, Bruce Timm (who’d later become the guy behind Batman TAS and DC animated stuff) sat behind Bob Camp (who took over R&S from John K after Nick kicked him out) while they were doing layouts on Real Ghostbusters and (maybe?) StarCom.

I guarantee John K sees Timm’s long-term successs as having come up behind his own and overshadowing his completely.

I know both Bob Camp and Bruce Timm did some monster designs for The Real Ghostbusters.

John undoubtedly looks down at anyone who's more successful than him - guys who can get access to the major networks, who aren't still trying to sell people on their shitty projects from the 90s, who aren't physically banned from the WB lot...

 

[Dark Emporer Dood]

Later, he somehow managed to get a license and bought a big fucking pickup truck. You can guess how his driving was like - he was the archetypal bad driver. Imagine every bad driver you've ever met combined into one - that was how he drove.

Ah the original "Bro Dozer" as they say. Sometimes I wonder myself how people get their licenses, John probably said something like "If I cant get my license I cant make Ren and Stimpy for your kids!".

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

I know both Bob Camp and Bruce Timm did some monster designs for The Real Ghostbusters.

John undoubtedly looks down at anyone who's more successful than him - guys who can get access to the major networks, who aren't still trying to sell people on their shitty projects from the 90s, who aren't physically banned from the WB lot...

I'd imagine he comforts himself by calling them "corporate cocksuckers" or whatnot. Because as we all know, actually providing your work on time and not constantly picking pointless fights with your employers is the very height of self-imposed slavery.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

I'd imagine he comforts himself by calling them "corporate cocksuckers" or whatnot. Because as we all know, actually providing your work on time and not constantly picking pointless fights with your employers is the very height of self-imposed slavery.

John's entire animation career has mostly been him pissing off his employers and burning bridges.

Meanwhile, the people who were trying to get work on time with Ren and Stimpy and stayed behind when John was fired have had mostly productive careers and still get work in the industry.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

John's entire animation career has mostly been him pissing off his employers and burning bridges.

Meanwhile, the people who were trying to get work on time with Ren and Stimpy and stayed behind when John was fired have had mostly productive careers and still get work in the industry.

Honestly you can get away with almost anything if you provide sellable product on a reliable schedule.

Hell, look at Marvel, they practically made "as long as it's done on time" their sole criteria for picking artists in the zeroes and up through practically today. While that started in the nineties with artists like Liefeld who weren't great but refused to miss a deadline, in the late nineties and early zeroes Marvel hit a lot of issues with good artists who basically just refused to turn in their work, letting it become weeks late, months late, or more. That seemed to push them even further to not caring about their stable of "artists" doing things like blatantly tracing (and not well), and becoming increasingly deaf to all the complaints and criticisms because fuck it, as long as the book ships on time.

So everything else Krakwhorski did... the horrible way he treated his subordinates and workmates, the disdainful attitude towards his employers, the constant conflict over content... probably all that could have been forgiven, the studio's probably used to that. But he couldn't get cartoons out the fucking door and that's why he got shown the fucking door.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

So everything else Krakwhorski did... the horrible way he treated his subordinates and workmates, the disdainful attitude towards his employers, the constant conflict over content... probably all that could have been forgiven, the studio's probably used to that. But he couldn't get cartoons out the fucking door and that's why he got shown the fucking door.

Remember also that when Nick pushed him out the door he'd had a lot of opportunities to shape up, and he didn't. If it weren't for the Nick executives Ren and Stimpy would have become animation's Heaven's Gate. (Eventually Adult Party Cartoon became animation's Heaven's Gate, but that's another story.)

 

[Terran Wraith]

I have three criticism of the guy.

1. He has some twisted views about animation. He seems to worship old Warner Bros style animation while on the same time thinking highly of 60s Hanna Barbera animation. This wouldn't be a problem normally but in the same breath he pretty much hated on anything new.

He has talent and understanding of classical animation principles, yet he never create appealing characters. He only goes for cheap shock value.

2. He wasted his potentially great animation career with being a pervert in the work place and not being able to handle art as a job.
If he had self control he could have a lot more shows under his belt, and be somebody. The animation world is not that big, if you once get in and prove yourself you may stick around a lot.

3. He is really arrogant.
He thinks he is above people who have more experience and I would say skill than him. Okay, he created one show in the early 90s but after?
The world moved forward and thanks to his bad rep and the failure of the "Adult Party Cartoon" pretty much doomed the Ren and Stimpy idea forever. Of course I doubt with the current landscape it would have been remade or something anyway. 90s animation was more liberal* with ugly stuff than modern shows.

*liberal not in a political sense, just as an attitude

 

[Nekromantik]

When he was asked why he wouldn't learn how, he said that it was because of all those little Elmer Fudds he kept seeing.

Maybe he's living in a real life cartoon?

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Maybe he's living in a real life cartoon?

I swear to God there was a movie like that. I can't remember what it was called...

 

[Quijibo69]

Monkey Bone *shutters*

 

[Meowthkip]

How do you hear someone say that they literally hallucinate little Elmer Fudds constantly and then just keep going to work for them every day like that's not a big deal?

This is still fucking me up thinking about this.

Does bipolar disorder cause hallucinations like that?

 

[GorebyHog]

Makes sense, after all, Savino worked with Kricfalusi at one point. So it's entirely possible he "learned from the master" so to speak.

Speaking of Savino, prior to making The Loud House the man made something called The Complex Adventures of Eddie Puss (hahaha get it how totally funny), where a cat boy wants to screw his mom. It's... something.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Anyone want to hear another story about John I got from Facebook?

The person who told this story on Facebook was working in comics when he met John at a convention, about 1991. (I can't remember his name, so he'll have to be anonymous by default, which is a good thing.) John asked him why he was working in comics instead of animation, and he gave John some reasons why. He then left and implied the guy was wasting his talent working in comics.

You'd think that would be the end of it, but a few years later, he happened to read an interview with John where he was promoting the new Spumco comic book (it was published by Dark Horse, I believe, and didn't last too long).

John was asked why he was doing comics - and the reasons he gave were the exact same reasons this person gave to him. Word for word.

 

[UY 690]

Anyone want to hear another story about John I got from Facebook?

The person who told this story on Facebook was working in comics when he met John at a convention, about 1991. (I can't remember his name, so he'll have to be anonymous by default, which is a good thing.) John asked him why he was working in comics instead of animation, and he gave John some reasons why. He then left and implied the guy was wasting his talent working in comics.

You'd think that would be the end of it, but a few years later, he happened to read an interview with John where he was promoting the new Spumco comic book (it was published by Dark Horse, I believe, and didn't last too long).

John was asked why he was doing comics - and the reasons he gave were the exact same reasons this person gave to him. Word for word.

DAAAAAAAAMN!

He even plagiarizes his own words. SMH