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

[I Love Beef]

If there were some things he's blogged about that I could agree with, I wouldn't mind anime having a bit more forays into being a bit more fluid/animated/bouncing, and I do like that he has some respect for anime regarding colors and content.

Other than that, John seriously needs to stop looking like the most pettiest and fatheaded motherfucker since before I was even born.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

If there were some things he's blogged about that I could agree with, I wouldn't mind anime having a bit more forays into being a bit more fluid/animated/bouncing, and I do like that he has some respect for anime regarding colors and content.

Other than that, John seriously needs to stop looking like the most pettiest and fatheaded motherfucker since before I was even born.

Those photos of him you see around the Net are all about 20 years old. I don't know why articles about the accusations chose to use pictures of him in his 90s heyday to illustrate them and not more recent ones, where he looks like this.

EDIT: A decade old comic in which an aspiring cartoonist learns how you can comment on an animation DVD.

 

[Phanto]

Let’s not forget he also bashed Animaniacs as well.

 

[AnOminous]

Let’s not forget he also bashed Animaniacs as well.

Animaniacs > R&S.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

It's appropriate that the thread's come back now, because there's been a lot of buzz around John lately...

Because he's contacting underage girls on Instagram, liking their pictures and apparently leaving inappropriate messages for them.

(I'm sorry that I don't have any pictorial evidence of this, but it IS happening.)

Here we are, a year later, and John is apparently unrepentant.

Some other things that were going viral are a blogpost he did where he criticized the "pee and poo colored" backgrounds of The Triplets of Belleville, and this delightful clip.

 

[AnOminous]

Some other things that were going viral are a blogpost he did where he criticized the "pee and poo colored" backgrounds of The Triplets of Belleville, and this delightful clip.

He'd be better off killing himself at this point than continuing to embarrass himself with idiotically shitty hot takes (and molesting instagram kids but that is obvious).

 

[MirrorNoir]

Not trying to split hairs but I think Spike's adult cartoon block was doomed to fail from the get go. They spent a lot of money on those shows that have decent to good levels of animation. Compare that to Adult Swim that had ratings darlings like Futurama and Family Guy (that they got for cheap) to piggy-back off of and extremely cheap shows they could create like Aqua Teen that cost about 30-50K which is insanely cheap.

Spike had no chance. Adult Party Cartoon being vehemently rejected and John K. being unable to deliver episodes on time were the icing on the cake.

Actually, while ACP flopping as hard as it did was a horrible mortal blow, the real killing strokes that doomed Spike's adult animation block were two-fold:

1. They didn't go hard in for anime, especially older shows like say, Ramna 1/2 or other edgy animes that Cartoon Network/Adult Swim wouldn't touch with a ten foot poll. Anime was the backbone of Cartoon Network going after older viewers and Spike didn't even try and tap into that market

2. MTV cockblocked and cockblocked hard, Spike in terms of not allowing them near their animation archives. The only thing MTV let them have was a random selection of hacked together Beavis and Butthead episodes minus the music video segments. Daria, which had just ended and would have been the perfect counterbalance/flagship show along with Ren and Stimpy, wasn't offered to Spike as MTV instead syndicated it to Noggin (which is what became Teen Nick), where it was butchered and dropped after a couple of months. Nor were any of the other MTV originals: no Celebrity Deathmatch, no Aeon Flux, no Liquid Television/Cartoon Sushi, no Max or The Head, etc. IE shows that had a huge fanbase that could have created the backbone of the Spike cartoon block.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Actually, while ACP flopping as hard as it did was a horrible mortal blow, the real killing strokes that doomed Spike's adult animation block were two-fold:

1. They didn't go hard in for anime, especially older shows like say, Ramna 1/2 or other edgy animes that Cartoon Network/Adult Swim wouldn't touch with a ten foot poll. Anime was the backbone of Cartoon Network going after older viewers and Spike didn't even try and tap into that market

2. MTV cockblocked and cockblocked hard, Spike in terms of not allowing them near their animation archives. The only thing MTV let them have was a random selection of hacked together Beavis and Butthead episodes minus the music video segments. Daria, which had just ended and would have been the perfect counterbalance/flagship show along with Ren and Stimpy, wasn't offered to Spike as MTV instead syndicated it to Noggin (which is what became Teen Nick), where it was butchered and dropped after a couple of months. Nor were any of the other MTV originals: no Celebrity Deathmatch, no Aeon Flux, no Liquid Television/Cartoon Sushi, no Max or The Head, etc. IE shows that had a huge fanbase that could have created the backbone of the Spike cartoon block.

Getting anime and MTV's cartoons may have helped somewhat, but I do think it might have helped if the shows were better above all.

Of course, considering the hectic production of APC, even if it had been good Spike TV would have still canceled it just so they didn't have to deal with John anymore.

(But then again, Spike TV, being the network for MEN!!!! probably wanted John K. to begin with. I'm not going to get into his claim that he suggested Spike TV do a show about UFC fighters...)

 

[MirrorNoir]

Getting anime and MTV's cartoons may have helped somewhat, but I do think it might have helped if the shows were better above all.

Of course, considering the hectic production of APC, even if it had been good Spike TV would have still canceled it just so they didn't have to deal with John anymore.

(But then again, Spike TV, being the network for MEN!!!! probably wanted John K. to begin with. I'm not going to get into his claim that he suggested Spike TV do a show about UFC fighters...)

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Had they gotten full access to the MTV animation library and invested wisely in anime, Spike would probably have gotten a couple of years out of the block.

Daria would be a reliable long-runner and even in bastardized form, Beavis and Butthead (like Ren and Stimpy) had been off the air for ages and developed considerable mystique to attract old fans and new ones. Daria/Beavis and Butthead/OG Ren and Stimpy would have created a perfect troika ala Family Guy/Futurama/Dragon Ball Z in the early days of Toonami to anchor the line-up with other MTV shows alternating after it, while using the anime to boost the ratings around R&S 2.0 and Striperella.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

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Had they gotten full access to the MTV animation library and invested wisely in anime, Spike would probably have gotten a couple of years out of the block.

Daria would be a reliable long-runner and even in bastardized form, Beavis and Butthead (like Ren and Stimpy) had been off the air for ages and developed considerable mystique to attract old fans and new ones. Daria/Beavis and Butthead/OG Ren and Stimpy would have created a perfect troika ala Family Guy/Futurama/Dragon Ball Z in the early days of Toonami to anchor the line-up with other MTV shows alternating after it, while using the anime to boost the ratings around R&S 2.0 and Striperella.

I suppose it would have allowed the block to survive, even if Adult Party Cartoon still premiered and proved as attractive to the viewing audience as syphilis.

But I don't think anything would have changed for Spumco. It would have still gone out of business after the clusterfuck of APC.

 

[Woke Blue Muttlema]

Semi-offtopic: You lads can say all you want that Spike could survive based on licensing the right stuff, but as much I would like to live in a world where that happenned I find it difficult.

• Anime scouting was and to a degree still is something very few licenses do right. Spike TV would need to beg for IPs to bigger and more established channels or take the risk, based on their track record I won't bet for them.
• No MTV darlings. No opportunity to actually bring sacred cows or develop their own Liquid Television, neither they could try.

My faith on Spike might not be very high but it couldn't be otherwise considering they almost gave Maddox a chance.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

To get away from Spike TV and whether it could have succeeded or not, I'm going to relate this story about Lynne Naylor to illustrate something about John.

After Lynne dumped John and quit Ren and Stimpy after finishing the first episode, she tried to find work elsewhere, but couldn't get any jobs.

Why do you think this was? Apparently John had been spreading stories to animation studios that most of Lynne's work was really all his, and that she was just the girlfriend hanging around the studio, so to speak.

That's how badly he took the breakup, it seems.

But the story does have a happy ending. One animator who'd worked with Lynne at DIC decided to hire her to do character designs for a superhero cartoon he was developing.

Who was that animator? None other than Bruce Timm.

And now you know... the rest of the story.

 

[LordofCringe7206]

To get away from Spike TV and whether it could have succeeded or not, I'm going to relate this story about Lynne Naylor to illustrate something about John.

After Lynne dumped John and quit Ren and Stimpy after finishing the first episode, she tried to find work elsewhere, but couldn't get any jobs.

Why do you think this was? Apparently John had been spreading stories to animation studios that most of Lynne's work was really all his, and that she was just the girlfriend hanging around the studio, so to speak.

That's how badly he took the breakup, it seems.

But the story does have a happy ending. One animator who'd worked with Lynne at DIC decided to hire her to do character designs for a superhero cartoon he was developing.

Who was that animator? None other than Bruce Timm.

And now you know... the rest of the story.

I wonder how long it took for John to lose any sway in the industry that he had? I imagine he wasn't able to keep the power to blacklist people he hates for long.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

I wonder how long it took for John to lose any sway in the industry that he had? I imagine he wasn't able to keep the power to blacklist people he hates for long.

Apparently not that long, all things considered. Bob Camp's reputation was trashed by John calling him a traitor and there were many people who wouldn't talk to him because of it, but he kept working long after the show finished and now, needless to say, has a better reputation than John.

He was apparently unable to blacklist Katie Rice; she kept working on things after she left Spumco.

 

[TowinKarz]

Remember, John's idol is Robert "Bob" Clampett, a guy notorious for haughty unwarranted self-importance and trying to sabotage the careers of disciples he jugdged to be unworthy to such a degree that even the late great Chuck Jones, who could still remember the names and foibles of all the old Termite Terrace gang, even down to the cel washers and janitor fifty years later.... never had a thing to say about him.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Remember, John's idol is Robert "Bob" Clampett, a guy notorious for haughty unwarranted self-importance and trying to sabotage the careers of disciples he jugdged to be unworthy to such a degree that even the late great Chuck Jones, who could still remember the names and foibles of all the old Termite Terrace gang, even down to the cel washers and janitor fifty years later.... never had a thing to say about him.

Bob Clampett was guilty of a lot of things, but sabotaging people's careers was not one of them, as far as I know. He was never as bad as John ever got.

 

[NARPASSWORD]

Bob Clampett was guilty of a lot of things, but sabotaging people's careers was not one of them, as far as I know. He was never as bad as John ever got.

And also, unlike John K., Bob Clampett actually had talent.

 

[The Pink Panther]

To get away from Spike TV and whether it could have succeeded or not, I'm going to relate this story about Lynne Naylor to illustrate something about John.

After Lynne dumped John and quit Ren and Stimpy after finishing the first episode, she tried to find work elsewhere, but couldn't get any jobs.

Why do you think this was? Apparently John had been spreading stories to animation studios that most of Lynne's work was really all his, and that she was just the girlfriend hanging around the studio, so to speak.

That's how badly he took the breakup, it seems.

But the story does have a happy ending. One animator who'd worked with Lynne at DIC decided to hire her to do character designs for a superhero cartoon he was developing.

Who was that animator? None other than Bruce Timm.

And now you know... the rest of the story.

Goddamn. What an asshole. Did his father do this to considering how much you could see his father's anger in his work? All good manipulators begin off of inspiration, right?

Remember, John's idol is Robert "Bob" Clampett, a guy notorious for haughty unwarranted self-importance and trying to sabotage the careers of disciples he jugdged to be unworthy to such a degree that even the late great Chuck Jones, who could still remember the names and foibles of all the old Termite Terrace gang, even down to the cel washers and janitor fifty years later.... never had a thing to say about him.

I own Chuck Amuck. Can prove this statement effectively. He mentions pretty much everyone, but conveniently leaves out Clampett. He compliments everyone, including Freleng, who supposedly was the angriest guy in the studio, constantly praising Gerry Chinquy's work over everyone else, and making Manuel Perez his whipping boy he'd always criticize.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Goddamn. What an asshole. Did his father do this to considering how much you could see his father's anger in his work? All good manipulators begin off of inspiration, right?

Not that I know of. It's all him.

I own Chuck Amuck. Can prove this statement effectively. He mentions pretty much everyone, but conveniently leaves out Clampett. He compliments everyone, including Freleng, who supposedly was the angriest guy in the studio, constantly praising Gerry Chinquy's work over everyone else, and making Manuel Perez his whipping boy he'd always criticize.

Friz was essentially the real-life model for Yosemite Sam, it must be admitted.

 

[NARPASSWORD]

Goddamn. What an asshole. Did his father do this to considering how much you could see his father's anger in his work? All good manipulators begin off of inspiration, right?




I own Chuck Amuck. Can prove this statement effectively. He mentions pretty much everyone, but conveniently leaves out Clampett. He compliments everyone, including Freleng, who supposedly was the angriest guy in the studio, constantly praising Gerry Chinquy's work over everyone else, and making Manuel Perez his whipping boy he'd always criticize.

That thing about Freleng being the angriest guy in the studio might have some truth, Considering he was the inspiration behind Yosemite Sam (his own creation, mind you, so he's at least got a sense of humor over it.)
Edit: NINJA'd by @Steamboat_Bill