John Kricfalusi
Michael John Kricfalusi ( born September 9, 1955 in Chicoutimi ) is a Canadian artist and better known as John Kricfalusi, or John K..
John Kricfalusi is the creator of the 1996-1998 broadcast in Germany animated series Ren and Stimpy. Kricfalusi sold his mission in 1991 to the American children's television channel Nickelodeon. However, it was available from only the first nine ten of the fifty-five episodes of the series of his own, since he was fired by Nickelodeon for a dispute. The reason given was by Nickelodeon, he had not complied with production schedules. Kricfalusi himself claims that the real reason was that Nickelodeon held its ideas for tasteless and not appropriate for children. Nickelodeon took the further production of the series on without Kricfalusi.
Style and work
John Kricfalusi maintains a distinct retro style in his work, as he was strongly influenced in particular for the classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons of the thirties to the sixties and interested in its confession of animated film directors such as Robert " Bob" Clampett. The modern animated movies of the seventies to the present day he is usually compared to categorically rejecting and criticizing their style and content in his blog extensively. Many trick filmmakers attest John Kricfalusi extraordinary talent and the initial success of the Ren and Stimpy Show led in the early nineties to a return to the virtues of classic cartoons.
In 2001, The Ripping Friends had on the American FOX network premiere. It was a flash superhero parody, anknüpfte whose style and content of Ren and Stimpy. The series, however, was canceled after only thirteen episodes and never shown on German television. A new edition of the Ren & Stimpy cartoons was from 2003 to 2004, produced by the American broadcaster Spike TV, a subsidiary station MTV. Kricfalusi were greater creative freedoms granted as of Nickelodeon in the production, which led to considerably more controversial content. As a result of internal disputes with the donors, the production was, however, reinstated, various consequences remain to this day unausgestrahlt.
Kricfalusis animations also appear in music videos for Björk, Tenacious D and Weird Al Yankovic.
Criticism
Film historian Michael Barrier criticized Kricfalusis recurring theme disgusting scenarios and pictures to make stories seem grotesquely funny. Barrier throws Kricfalusi before also, by its unilateral taste the full potential of the medium cartoon to exploit neither understand nor.
Billy West, a well known American voice actor, threw Kricfalusi claims to have after his dismissal by Nickelodeon compelled him to abandon his speaking roles in the Ren & Stimpy Show. According to West Kricfalusi wanted to put pressure on the Nickelodeon management, followed by West but not was getting. Due to ongoing differences, West refused also to take in the Ren & Stimpy cartoons remake of his old roles again.