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John Kricfalusi (born Michael John Kricfalusi on September 9, 1955, in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada) is the animator better known as John K., creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show and The Ripping Friends cartoon series as well as the founder of animation studio Spümcø International. (Note that when working on cartoons he doesn't quite support, Kricfalusi is sometimes credited as Raymond Spum.)

For many years, Kricfalusi (pronounced /kɹɪsfʌlʊski/) drew low-end studio television cartoons (the most notable and best one in Kricfalusi's opinion was the The Jetsons revival) before being 'rescued' in 1987 by director Ralph Bakshi. The animator was hired to help create a new series based on the original Terrytoons cartoon Mighty Mouse
for Bakshi's animation studio. The Bakshi/Kricfalusi interpretation was in many ways more creative than the original, yet also considerably more bizarre: the series was aired on CBS, but after two seasons complaints from viewers and low ratings prompted the network to cancel it. John K. also worked on another cartoon series at the time around Mighty Mouse called Galaxy High, where he worked on character designs on some of the aliens in the series.

Kricfalusi went on to found his Spümcø International animation studio with partner Jim Smith, creating the controversial Ren & Stimpy Show. Spümcø sold the show to Nickelodeon in 1988, yet after several years of battling with the network's executives over content, Kricfalusi was ultimately fired from production of the series in 1992, leaving the production of the series in the hands of Nickelodeon and Games Animation.

Since then, Kricfalusi has worked on various projects including some web-based cartoons, Björk and Tenacious D music videos, some Yogi Bear cartoons (including Boo-Boo and the Man and Boo Boo Runs Wild), two Jetsons cartoons (Father & Son Day and The Best Son), and the short-lived FOX Kids TV series The Ripping Friends. Most recently he has written, directed, and starred in new Ren & Stimpy adult cartoons produced for Spike TV, a network which has allowed the animator much more freedom to work with the lewd and bizarre themes that make his art distinctive. However, after only 6 of 10 episodes aired, the new Ren and Stimpy show was also cancelled.

Kricfalusi provides several audio commentaries in Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volumes 2 and 3 (DVD sets of classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes
and Merrie Melodies
cartoons) and appears in some of the bonus featurettes as well.

On February 13 2006 Kricfalusi started his own weblog, .

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Actors - John Kricfalusi

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