John Kricfalusi Biography
John Kricfalusi is a Canadian illustrator and blogger who has also worked as an animator and voice actor in the past. He created the animated television series The Ren & Stimpy Show, which had a significant impact on televised animation in the 1990s.
How old is John Kricfalusi? – Age
He is 68 years old as of 9 September 2023. He was born in 1955 in Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Canada. His real name is Michael John Kricfalusi.
John Kricfalusi Family – Education
John grew up in Germany and Belgium, the son of Michael Kricfalusi of Ukrainian heritage and Mary Lou Kricfalusi (née MacDonell) of Scottish and English descent. Elizabeth is his only sibling. His father was a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot who enjoyed watching European feature-length cartoons. He returned to Canada with his family when he was seven years old and spent much of his time at home watching Hanna-Barbera cartoons and drawing them.
During his time at Sheridan College, where he attended monthly screenings of vintage films and cartoons, his interest in golden-age animation intensified. Kricfalusi traveled to Los Angeles, California, after being dismissed from Sheridan College in 1978, with the purpose of becoming an animator.
John Kricfalusi Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
John Kricfalusi The Ripping Friends
Kricfalusi and Jim Smith’s television series The Ripping Friends premiered on Fox Kids in 2001. Kricfalusi had already pitched the show to networks in the late 1980s, but it was deemed “too extreme” and was not picked up. Kricfalusi was dissatisfied with the show’s direction and felt the show’s supervisors were abandoning the Spümc style. He regards the episodes in which he was part as experimental. One of his contributions to the program was directing the voice-actors, which he “really worked-out” so hard that he was concerned he’d cause one of them to have a heart attack.
John Kricfalusi Retirement
Kricfalusi revealed in an interview for the 2020 documentary Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren and Stimpy Story that he was “officially retired” from the animation profession, “though not by choice.”
John Kricfalusi Mighty Mouse
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, based on the classic Terrytoons character, was the team’s most successful effort. The series was well-received, and it is regarded as the forefather of creator-driven animation. Kricfalusi directed and supervised eight of the twenty-six episodes. Kricfalusi left the show at the start of the second season. Mighty Mouse’s production was quite different from other cartoons at the time, thanks to the success of the irreverent Pee-wee’s Playhouse on CBS the year before. Kricfalusi’s production system, which emphasizes artistic contribution in every phase of the process, from outline to storyboard to layout to animation, allowed the animators to have much more creative input.
Mighty Mouse was canceled due to allegations that the main character was sniffing cocaine. Bakshi insisted that neither he nor Kricfalusi had the character sniffing cocaine, and that the figure was smelling crushed petals from a flower that had been offered to him in an earlier scene in the cartoon. Kricfalusi offered a Mighty Mouse resurrection series to Paramount in 1994, which would have included additional Terrytoons characters like Deputy Dawg, but they turned it down.
John Kricfalusi Sexual Allegations
Former Spümc employees Robyn Byrd and Katie Rice claimed that Kricfalusi, the proprietor of the animation studio, sexually harassed and groomed them while they were young. Byrd, who was dating Kricfalusi in 1997, moved to California when she was 17, and Rice, who had been dating Kricfalusi since she was 14, had been sexually harassed when she turned 18. Kricfalusi was also suspected of having child pornography on his computer.
Despite the fact that the allegations were notified to police, they were unable to arrest or investigate Kricfalusi due to the statute of limitations. Kricfalusi’s lawyer stated that he had a 16-year-old girlfriend for 25 years but denied sexual harassment or having child pornography. Kricfalusi apologized for his actions, claiming that they were prompted by undiagnosed bipolar disorder, ADHD, and poor impulse control. Byrd and Rice, on the other hand, condemned Kricfalusi’s remark as a non-apology and an attempt to shift blame.
John Movies
♦ 1981 – Ted Bakes One
♦ 1982 – Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase
♦ 1988 – The Thing What Lurked in the Tub
♦ 1989 – Troop Beverly Hills
♦ 2006 – Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
♦ 2009 – Al’s Brain
♦ 2020 – Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren and Stimpy StoryTed Bakes One
John TV Shows
♦ 1982 – Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase
♦ 1988 – The Thing What Lurked in the Tub
♦ 1989 – Troop Beverly Hills
♦ 2006 – Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
♦ 2009 – Al’s Brain
♦ 2020 – Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren and Stimpy Story
♦ 2001–2002 – The Ripping Friends
♦ 2001 – The Jetsons: Father & Son Day
♦ 2002 – The Jetsons: The Best Son
♦ 2002 – Boo Boo and the Man
♦ 2003 – Ren & Stimpy “Adult Party Cartoon”
♦ 2006 – The X’s
♦ 2006 – Class of 3000
♦ 2011, 2015 – The Simpsons
♦ 2012 – The Eric André Show