John Kricfalusi

John Kricfalusi (born September 9, 1955), better known as John K, is a Canadian animator. He is creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Ripping Friends animated series, and Weekend Pussy Hunt, as well as the founder of the animation studio Spümcø.

Quotes

• The main thing missing from cartoons is today that old cartoons were cartoony. They did things you can't do in any other medium. Today's cartoons are very conservative and are more like live action. The characters look the same in every frame of the damn cartoon. The old cartoons squashed, stretched, and did crazy expressions. They were imaginative and crazy. A lot of cartoons aren't imaginative, they just say things. It might as well be radio. There is no point in having anything to look at in modern cartoons. But you can't say that about every cartoon. Genndy Tartakovsky's cartoons are beautiful. The closest thing now to what I'm saying is SpongeBob but even that doesn't go very far. It's like a conservative version of Ren & Stimpy.
• Daniel Robert Epstein (Oct 12, 2004), "John Kricfalusi, interview", SuicideGirls, retrieved 2011-03-01

• Illustration from the late-1900s up through the middle of the 20th century was absolutely amazing. In general, American culture was at its highest skill wise in every aspect of human life in the 1940s. It’s all been downhill since then. You just open an old magazine from the 1930s and ’40s and look at the illustrations in it. There’s nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.
• In Amid Amidi The John Kricfalusi Interview, Part 2, Cartoon Brew, August 31 2004.

• Forget the takes. Takes are cheap shots. Anyone can do a goddamn take. You don't have to be a genius to draw a take. It's emotions—the full range of emotions—that works in Clampett's cartoons.
• Wheeler W. Dixon (2001), "Creating Ren and Stimpy (1992)", Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema (SIU Press): 89

• Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.
• Dixon, Collected Interviews, 90–91

• Let me make this clear: Ren & Stimpy really is a children's show. It was made for kids. I'm not putting anything in there that I don't think a kid can watch, or should watch. It's completely a kid's show.
• Dixon, Collected Interviews, 92

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