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

[Steamboat_Bill]

John K's dad circa many years ago:
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There is indeed a certain resemblance here.

A more recent pic:
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Yeah, the resemblance is far too similar to be a coincidence.

Please note the lovingly sexualized teenage girls next to John’s dad’s head. And the picture of John and... maybe one of the teenage girls he was involved with? It’s definitely a caricature from the “Close But No Cigar” video. And could the monkeys next to that picture be from this project?

Wait, how did you get this info? Also link to post plz.

Now that he’s back I can say that when he first said that in the thread I was skeptical about the claims. In the months since, having read more on John, I am no longer skeptical.

With all of this talk about his father, even though the episode itself is fucking hilarious (IT'S DISCIPLINE THAT BEGETS LOVE), the characterization of George Liquor in Man's Best Friend is weird. His sporadic sense of anger always felt sort of off in comparison to other Ren and Stimpy characters because he wanted Ren and Stimpy to behave badly and he was holding in his temper the whole time and shit, and it felt kind of like those daddy issues became psychotic.

That’s because Chris Reccardi boarded it and, needless to say, he was trying to do something other than explore John’s daddy issues.

Incidentally, @chaunceyslick, now that you’re back I’d like some verification. I’ve seen claims that John sent a letter to Nick sometime before he was fired saying that the episodes would “cost what they cost and take as long as they needed.” Is this true?

 

[chaunceyslick]

Privileged insider info. Besides, not exactly a citable fact, is it?

Another fun fact: Jimmy the Idiot Boy was based on a real retarded boy John K and friends used to abuse/molest in their teen years. This came out of John K.'s own mouth to Vincent Waller. One of the incidents involved John and co. tying up this kid and smacking his erect cock to see how big it could get, measuring it with a ruler. It got to about 14 inches (!!!) and the kid passed out from the bloodflow. Vincent, horrorstruck, screamed at him, "WHOA WHOA WHOA, WAIT A MINUTE. This was YOU doing this!?" John: "Well, of course!"

Incidentally, @chaunceyslick, now that you’re back I’d like some verification. I’ve seen claims that John sent a letter to Nick sometime before he was fired saying that the episodes would “cost what they cost and take as long as they needed.” Is this true?

Yes

 

[8777BB5]

I wonder if Ralph Bakshi regrets not permanently firing John K from Mighty Mouse.

 

[Siryakko212]

Like I wrote earlier in this thread, it was a childhood friend's father who molested John K when he was a teenager. His own father's lack of appropriate action no doubt did irreparable damage, too.

Didn't you also specified that he was 15 years old when he was molested? This has got to be the logical reason as to why he hates everything 1970 onwards. He likes to think of the good ol' days prior to the 70's because he doesn't like to be reminded of that incident. It would seem that he never got over it.

 

[chaunceyslick]

Didn't you also specified that he was 15 years old when he was molested? This has got to be the logical reason as to why he hates everything 1970 onwards. He likes to think of the good ol' days prior to the 70's because he doesn't like to be reminded of that incident. It would seem that he never got over it.

I never specified the age, just that he was a teenager when he got diddled by his friend's dad for cigarettes. (And again, no I don't know if that's why there's a character named Cigarettes the Cat.)

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Vincent, horrorstruck, screamed at him, "WHOA WHOA WHOA, WAIT A MINUTE. This was YOU doing this!?" John: "Well, of course!"

Like it's just some typical phase for a bunch of teenagers to gang up on a mentally handicapped kid and sexually assault him until he fell unconscious. John is acting like he's the one who should be appalled that it's even being brought into question.

When I talked about John's "shitty projects from the 90s" this is what I mean, incidentally:

http://johnkpitch.blogspot.com

Anybody notice that He-Hog is a ripoff of Mighty Mouse?

I think I'll add "I'm so sick of the 90s" to my Unpopular Opinions list. Especially since it is completely entirely forbidden to criticize that era, less you be deemed a deranged lunatic.

It was one of the most prosperous eras of the United States, it's really no wonder why so many people who struggle to stay above the poverty line today would prefer to time machine themselves back to that period.

 

[Poxy Fuckwit]

The fact John couldn’t even spend the time animating George Liquor walking is a true crime against humanity.

Like it's just some typical phase for a bunch of teenagers to gang up on a mentally handicapped kid and sexually assault him until he fell unconscious.

Anybody notice that He-Hog is a ripoff of Mighty Mouse?

It was one of the most prosperous eras of the United States, it's really no wonder why so many people who struggle to stay above the poverty line today would prefer to time machine themselves back to that period.

John worked on the Mighty Mouse reboot and it was one of his first mainline projects. It could be possible, then again it could also be one of John’s balantly terrible ideas that rightfully never made it past concept.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I mentioned this earlier, but here is a page from the Spumco Comic Book:

You know, I honestly think digital coloring just did not flatter John’s style.

It looks trillions of times better than his animated work. He probably should've just moved on to making comic strips for newspapers after getting booted from R&S. At least then he'd be far less likely to be trapped in development Hell on the same cartoon for a decade. This was by far the most amusing thing I've seen from him at all to be honest. It's better paced than his animations are too.

Regarding Bakshi, if you go to his Kickstarter page for The Last Days of Coney Island, you'll see a lot of negative posts from backers regarding not only the late delivery of the film (they somehow thought it would be ready two months after the end of the campaign, but it wasn't released until two and a half years later), the backer screening of the film (a lot of backers said they didn't get codes), and the failure to deliver on certain rewards (they ran out of money before they could manufacture DVDs). I'm sure most of these complaints are legitimate, but that's the risk you run when you give to a Kickstarter campaign. At the very least, he did finish the short. Thad Komorowski, who has been brought up here a lot due to his Ren and Stimpy book, did a write up that seems accurate about Coney Island but unnecessarily harsh towards Bakshi's career:
https://www.whataboutthad.com/2016/01/30/last-days-of-coney-island/

As an aside, I'm watching the short and it is very terrible. All the backgrounds are just cropped, pixelated photos and half the footage is just blurry Youtube rips. I will grant Bakshi one thing is that he still seems to at least have some understanding as to how to set a moody & grimy scene, but otherwise this really epitomizes all the things I never liked about his work.

It's almost like everything here was just a placeholder for the real product but he ended up leaving it as-is because he blew through his crowdfunding money really fucking fast. I read up that they started on paper and then completed the pages on Toon Boom, which I think pretty much explains everything wrong with it. They should've just started out animating everything in the software from the get-go.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Like I wrote earlier in this thread, it was a childhood friend's father who molested John K when he was a teenager. His own father's lack of appropriate action no doubt did irreparable damage, too.

Privileged insider info. Besides, not exactly a citable fact, is it?

Another fun fact: Jimmy the Idiot Boy was based on a real exceptional boy John K and friends used to abuse/molest in their teen years. This came out of John K.'s own mouth to Vincent Waller. One of the incidents involved John and co. tying up this kid and smacking his erect cock to see how big it could get, measuring it with a ruler. It got to about 14 inches (!!!) and the kid passed out from the bloodflow. Vincent, horrorstruck, screamed at him, "WHOA WHOA WHOA, WAIT A MINUTE. This was YOU doing this!?" John: "Well, of course!"



Yes

Very upsetting, disturbing stuff.

 

[Poxy Fuckwit]

Reminder that John K did a sketch of the infamous Polish coal burner image.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

John worked on the Mighty Mouse reboot and it was one of his first mainline projects. It could be possible, then again it could also be one of John’s balantly terrible ideas that rightfully never made it past concept.

If @chaunceyslick ever comes back, perhaps he can give us some info on the He-Hog pilot John produced for MTV in the late 90s?

 

[AnOminous]

Evidently yes, considering how John's daddy issues are literally everywhere in his cartoons.

George Liquor is literally Daddy Issues: the Character. John must be so furious he isn't allowed to literally make him a pedophile under his severance agreement that let him have the rights to this horrid character nobody else wants.

Like it's just some typical phase for a bunch of teenagers to gang up on a mentally handicapped kid and sexually assault him until he fell unconscious. John is acting like he's the one who should be appalled that it's even being brought into question.

Hey who hasn't gotten a little out of hand and gang raped a tard. I mean, I never did, but this is normal, right? Oh wait it isn't John K is a sick little monkey.

They should've just started out animating everything in the software from the get-go.

Given the absolutely outrageous amount of time and money they had they could have fucking done cel animation and ended up with a lot of cels to just give out to patrons as payback for waiting so long, AND had leftovers to sell for added profit.

That would have been what a real artist or a real businessman would have done.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

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.

Thanks for getting me that behind the scenes documentary of John K having a Chernobyl.

Oh wait, that wasn't a Chernobyl, he was play-acting one of the characters with the interviewer. Whatever.

 

[AnOminous]

Come to think of it, cel animation would have also handled the absolutely atrocious continuity issues all through Cans Without Dignity.

Imagine that, someone actually doing classic style animation, like John claims to love so much.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

It looks trillions of times better than his animated work. He probably should've just moved on to making comic strips for newspapers after getting booted from R&S. At least then he'd be far less likely to be trapped in development Hell on the same cartoon for a decade. This was by far the most amusing thing I've seen from him at all to be honest. It's better paced than his animations are too.

I imagine that it wouldn't take John long to run afoul with his old enemy, the deadline, if he had taken his business to the funny papers

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Come to think of it, cel animation would have also handled the absolutely atrocious continuity issues all through Cans Without Dignity.

Imagine that, someone actually doing classic style animation, like John claims to love so much.

I legitimately don't understand the obsession animation fans have with cels, like the ease of having software for the same thing really somehow holds you back from doing an equally good job with a more tedious and expensive process that's ultimately more error prone because of the difficulties involved. Cels are to animation what vinyl is to music, obsolete but remain on a pedestal as the ultimate format of their fields. I can't imagine an argument in favor of it other than that it's just more vintage.

 

[AnOminous]

I imagine that it wouldn't take John long to run afoul with his old enemy, the deadline, if he had taken his business to the funny papers

There is no way at all John would have survived in the funny pages. You either crank them out every day or you cease to exist, period. They do not have special snowflake deadlines where you just blow shit off.

I legitimately don't understand the obsession animation fans have with cells, like the ease of having software for the same thing really somehow holds you back from doing an equally good job with a more tedious and expensive process that's ultimately more error prone because of the difficulties involved.

I admit that maybe it's just some nerd shit like those dicks who worship vinyl for no good reason, but it's just like a thing, man. You know?

Also you actually have cels to collect and things like that. Stuff you can put up on a wall, and say look at this.

And on a more serious note, look at the horrible backgrounds in CWL. They're shit. If you had cels for all these things they would have been consistent. That would objectively have been better than this piece of shit John finally squatted and squeezed out after ten fucking years.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I imagine that it wouldn't take John long to run afoul with his old enemy, the deadline, if he had taken his business to the funny papers

Considering it's like 1:100th of the work I really don't see how he could do that, then again this is John K, he'd find a way.

“cost what they cost and take as long as they need”... and you can guess that was, essentially, the last straw for Nickelodeon.

Isn't that a WWI quote, one about a cavalry that had to charge into bunch of machine guns? And isn't the "it'll be done when it's done" bit a quote from Michelangelo while painting the Sistine Chapel in the Agony and the Ecstasy?

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

I just made a rather interesting discovery...

Notice the painting of George Liquor that opens Cans Without Labels? It's the same painting of him used in the title sequence of "Man's Best Friend." Literally the exact same.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I just made a rather interesting discovery...

Notice the painting of George Liquor that opens Cans Without Labels? It's the same painting of him used in the title sequence of "Man's Best Friend." Literally the exact same.

Comparison photos?