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wishmachines · 3 years

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sorted alphabetically by first name dates are when I began and finished reading

currently reading Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire [28.12.2020 —] Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf [28.12.2020 —]

on pause

Andri Snær Magnason, LoveStar Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, translated by William Weaver Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

finished

Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin [18 — 26.12.20] Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic, translated by Olena Bormashenko Asja Bakić, Mars: Stories, translated by Jennifer Zoble [11 — 1.12.20] Cormac McCarthy, The Road [26 — 29.12.2020] Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, translated by William Weaver [20.11.20 — 9.12.20] Italo Calvino, The Nonexistent Knight, translated by Achiblad Colquhoun Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan [4.12.20] Lord Dunsany, The Book of Wonder [14.11.20] Marie Darrieussecq, Our Life in the Forest, translated by Penny Hueston [28.12.2020] Rodrigo Fresán, The Bottom of the Sky, translated by Will Vanderhyden [20 — 23.12.20] Stanisław Lem, Solaris, translated by Bill Johnston [21 — 24.11.20] Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed [24 — 26.11.20]

to read

Alejandro Jodorowski Aleksandar Tesic, Kosingas: The Order of the Dragon Alex Dally MacFarlane, Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints Andrus Kivirähk, The Man Who Spoke Snakish *Angélica Gorodischer, Trafalgar Anjali Sachdeva, All the Names They Used For God Anna Kavan, Ice Annalee Newitz, Autonomous Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Hard To Be A God Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Noon: 22nd Century A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few Berit Ellingsen, Not Dark Yet Beth Plutchak, Liminal Spaces Carmen Boullosa, Heavens on Earth Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog Carolyn Ives Gilman, Dark Orbit Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Catherynne M. Valente, The Habitation of the Blessed Charles Yu, How To live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night Christina M. Rau, Liberating he Astronauts Cixin Lui, The Three-Body Problem Dan Simmons, The Hyperion Cantos Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll Daniel Mallory Ortberg, The Merry Spinster Eleanor Arnason, Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens Ellen Kushner, Riverside Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing Herbert Rosendorfer, The Architect of Ruins, translated by Mike Mitchell *Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas Ian McDonald, Luna: Wolf Moon Isaac Asimov, Foundation James Blish, Cities in Flight Jan Morris, Hav *Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer, Authority Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer, The Compass of His Bones and Other Stories Johanna Sinisalo, Troll: A Love Story Joe Haldeman, The Forever War John Conolly, The Book of Lost Things John Keene, Counternarratives Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion  *Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go Leigh Brackett, The Big Jump Linda Nagata, Vast Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor *Lola Robles, Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist, translated by Lawrence Schimel L. Timmel Duchamp, Love’s Body, Dancing in Time L. Timmel Duchamp, Alanya to Alanya Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake Marlen Haushofer, The Wall Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast Olga Tokarczuk, Primeval and Other Times Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night *Patricia A. McKillip, In the Forests of Serre Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn Samuel R. Delaney, Nova Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17 Samuel R. Delaney, Return to Nevèrÿon Samuel R. Delany, They Fly At Ciron Sergey & Maria Dyachenko, The Scar Sergey & Maria Dyachenko, Vita Nostra Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Sjón, Codex 1962 Sofia Samatar, The Winged Histories  Stanisław Lem, His Master’s Voice Stanisław Lem, Return from the Stars Stanisław Lem, The Cyberiad Stanisław Lem, The Star Diaries Tanith Lee, Space Is Just a Starry Night Tatyana Tolstaya, The Slynx Vladimir Sorokin, The Ice Triology Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake Yoss, Condomnauts, translated by David Frye Yoss, Red Dust, translated by David Frye Zoran Zivkovic, The Library

Anja Sachdeva, All the Names They Used For God Anna Kavan, Machines in the Head: Selected Stories  Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams Diana Wynne Jones, Believing is Seeing Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics John Ajvide Lindquist, Let The Old Dream Die and Other Stories *Kanishk Tharoor, Swimmer Among the Stars Karen Russell, Saint Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves Karin Tidbeck, Jagannath: Stories Kelly Link, Monstrous Affections Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen Leena Krohn, Collected Fiction (translated by various) Leigh Brackett, Sea-Kings of Mars Peg Alford Pursell, A Girl Goes Into the Forest Tatyana Tolstaya, Aetherial Worlds  Ted Chiang, Exhalation Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

** Desirina Boskovich (editor), It Came from the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction Eugenio Lisboa and Helder Macedo (editors), The Dedalus Book of Portguese Fantasy Eric Dickens (editor), The Dedalus Book of Flemish Fantasy Johanna Sinisalo (editor), The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy Margaret Jull Costa and Annella McDermott (editors), The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy Mike Mitchell (editor), The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy: 1890-2000 David Connolly (editor), The Dedalus Book of Greek Fantasy Richard Huijing (editor), The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy Yvonne Howell (editor), Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction

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seeksstaronmewni · 5 years

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Team Spümcø!

The many veterans / members / creatives of Spümcø, highly controversial and formerly abusive but also ground-breaking animator John Kricfalusi (including Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures and DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot) and/or The Ren & Stimpy Show include:

Jeff Amey** (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Bob the Builder)

Rich Aarons [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Benjamin Anders [from Cans with out Labels] (Adventure Time: Distant Lands, Craig of the Creek) (do NOT bring John K and the like up with him!)

Peter Avanzino (Futurama, How Murray Saved Christmas, Disenchantment, Drawn Together)

Kelly Armstrong (The Woody Woodpecker Show [1998], The Baby Huey Show, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, Spongebob Squarepants)

Carlos Baeza [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Ralph Bakshi (Hound Town, The Lord of the Rings (1978), Cool World) [from Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]

Joey Banaskiewicz [from DiC’s Beany & Cecil reboot]

Mark Gordon Bates [from DiC’s Beany & Cecil reboot]

Charlie Bean (Samurai Jack, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, The Amazing World of Gumball, TRON: Legacy, The Powerpuff Girls)

Ed D. Bell (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hound Town, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, Soul)

Ed Benedict [from Boo Boo Runs Wild] (Disney, Symphony in Slang, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, Johnny Bravo)

Tony Benedict [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Derek Bond** (Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Bonkers, Hilda)

Dylan Bozic*** (Spongebob Squarepants)

Ken Boyer (The Lion King, Class of 3000, Tom and Jerry, House of Mouse, A Troll in Central Park, McGee and Me, We Bare Bears, Tiny Toon Adventures) [from “Weekend Pussy Hunt” (I am well aware of the profanity pun/innuendo for the record)]

Kent Butterworth (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Clifford’s Really Big Movie, Flash Gordon (1979), An American Tail, Tom and Jerry)

Bob Camp (Sym-Bionic Titan, Spongebob SquarePants, Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil)

Becky Caputo [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Zeus Cervas (Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Spongebob Squarepants) [from the Bjork “I Miss You” music video]

Julian Chaney (Dexter’s Laboratory, 2 Stupid Dogs, Black Dynamite, Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

Rich Childlaw [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil] (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)

Mark Christiansen* (An American Tail, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Looney Tunes Cartoons, Tom and Jerry, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo) [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Donovan Cook (2 Stupid Dogs, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Mickey, Donald and Goofy - The Three Musketeers, Victor and Valentino)

Robertryan Cory (Spongebob Squarepants, The Mighty B!, Star vs. the Forces of Evil) (do NOT bring John K/Spumco up with him!)

Luke Cormican (Teen Titans GO!, The Buzz on Maggie)

Nick Cross / @ncrossanimation** (Over the Garden Wall, Jammers, Angora Napkin, Wayside)

Matt Danner (The Legend of the Three Caballeros, Johnny Test, Long Gone Gulch, Muppet Babies) [from The Ripping Friends]

Richard Daskas / @rdaskas (Animaniacs, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Monsters vs. Aliens)

Gabe Del Valle / @gadworks (Mighty Magiswords, Spongebob Squarepants, Too Loud, Looney Tunes Cartoons, Long Gone Gulch) [from but not limited to “Cans with out Labels”] (I suggest not bringing John K. up with him)

@stephendestefano (Mickey Mouse, Samurai Jack, The Venture Bros., Sym-Bionic Titan, Looney Tunes Cartoons, Popeye DVDs, Genndy Tartakovksy’s Primal, Teen Titans, DC Super Hero Girls, Samurai Jack, Adventure Time)

Drew Edwards (The Nutcracker Prince; Wild Kratts, Animation Services for Lacewood Productions on Ren & Stimpy Season 1) [from The Ripping Friends]

Tom Ellery [from DiC’s Beany & Cecil reboot]

David Feiss (Cow and Chicken, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, I Am Weasel, Droopy DVD)

Eddie Fitzgerald (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Tales of Worm Paranoia, Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars!)

Mike Fontanelli (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Spongebob Squarepants, Buy One Get One Free*, The Cuphead Show!)

Kali Fontecchio (Spongebob Squarepants, Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes Cartoons, Rick and Morty, DC Super Hero Girls (2019)) [from but not limited to “Cans with out Labels”] (do not bring John K and the like up with her!)

Owen Fishback [from the upcoming Ren & Stimpy revival at Awesome Inc.]

William H. Frake III [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Tony Fucile (Osmosis Jones, The Lion King, Tom and Jerry: The Movie)

Jim Gomez (Sym-Bionic Titan, Space Goofs)

David Gemmill (Looney Tunes Cartoons, Uncle Grandpa, Spongebob Squarepants, Wander Over Yonder, Teen Titans Go!, The Mighty B!, Fanboy and Chum Chum)

Shane Glines (Batman: The Animated Series) [from Spümcø Comic Book]

Kristy Gordon** (Wayside)

Bret Haaland [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Dan Haskett (Tom and Jerry Tales, Looney Tunes Cartoons, The Simpsons, The Swan Princess, Larry Boy, The Prince of Egypt, Johnny Bravo, Class of 3000) [from the DiC “Beany & Cecil” reboot]

Garrett Ho (Timon and Pumba, Clifford the Really Big Dog, Tiny Toon Adventures)

Eddie Houchins (Uncle Grandpa, The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show)

Geneva Hodgson / @cartoonfuntime (Teen Titans Go!, Trick Moon) [from John K.’s Stussy commercial/promotional short]

Ron Hughart (Futurama, American Dad!, Family Dog, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures)

Michael Lah [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot] (Disney, MGM, Tom and Jerry)

Tom Mazzocco (The Powerpuff Girls, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, The Little Mermaid) [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Tom McGrath* (Madagascar, Megamind, Buy One Get One Free*)

Bob Miller [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Dave Mink [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Ken Mitchroney [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Brian Mitchell [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Rich Moore (Wreck-It Ralph, The Simpsons) [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Larry Murphy (Star vs. the Forces of Evil, The Fairly OddParents)

Bob Jaques (Spongebob Squarepants, Time Squad, Wayside, The Baby Huey Show, The Woody Woodpecker Show [1998], Fish Hooks)

Vicky Jenson (Shrek, Spellbound)

Ben Jones (Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, DC Super Hero Girls (2019), Cats Don’t Dance, Looney Tunes, Mucha Lucha!, Class of 3000, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, El Tigre, Teen Titans GO!)

Craig Kellman* (The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Maruined)

Jungja Kim-Wolf* (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)

Mike Kim (Despicable Me, The Powerpuff Girls)

Dylan H. King*** (Spongebob Squarepants, Pencilmation)

Mr. Doug Lawrence (Spongebob Squarepants, The Fairly Oddparents, Hairballs, Mighty Magiswords)

Warren Leonhardt (Wayside, Tom and Jerry Tales, Rio, 9, Total Drama, Clone High, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)

Steve Loter* (Curious George, The Ghost and Molly McGee, Kim Possible)

Ted Mathot* (Creature Crunch, The Incredibles)

Helder Mendonca** (Wild Kratts, Wayside, Dawn of the Croods)

Chris Mitchell / @cyborgturkey-blog* (The Powerpuff Girls, Big Hero 6, Samurai Jack, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Long Gone Gulch, Spongebob Squarepants)

Rich Moore (The Simpsons, Wreck-It Ralph, Hound Town) [from DiC’s Beany & Cecil reboot]

Mark O’Hare* (The Powerpuff Girls, Spongebob Squarepants, Camp Lazlo)

Garrett Omoto [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Joe Orrantia (Clifford the Big Red Dog, Godfrey & Zeek, Dexter’s Lab, Anastasia, Grim & Evil, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto)

Tom Owens* (The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show, VeggieTales: Beauty and the Beet, Beany and Cecil) [from Beany and Cecil’s DiC reboot)

Mike Pelensky / @mikepelensky (Mighty Magiswords, Looney Tunes Cartoons, Long Gone Gulch) [from “Cans with out Labels”]

Marc Perry (Johnny Test, YooHoo and Friends, The Powerpuff Girls, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)

Henry Porch (19??-July 9th, 2021) - DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot, Tales of Worm Paranoia (AKA “The Worm”), Ranger Smith

Jose Pou (DC Super Hero Girls [2019], Wild Kratts, Angoria Napkin)

Dan Povenmire* (Phineas and Ferb, Spongebob Sqaurepants)

Eric J. Pringle (Teen Titans GO!, The Problem Solverz, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends)

Richard Pursel (Tom and Jerry Tales, Mighty Magiswords, Tiny Toon Adventures)

Chris Reccardi (1964-May 2nd, 2019) - Meddlen Meadows, Samurai Jack, The Mighty B!, Wander Over Yonder, The Powerpuff Girls

Lynne Naylor-Reccardi (The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, Hercules and Xena: The Battle for Mount Olympus, Star Wars: Clone Wars, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Ted Bakes One, The Mighty Ones)

Sandra D. Riveras / @sandrarivasart (Too Loud, Looney Tunes Cartoons, Long Gone Gulch) [from “Cans with out Labels”]

Chris Savino (Suburban Daredevil, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack) [detested for harassment charges, but now also a changed man]

Don Shank / @donshank (The Powerpuff Girls, Buy One Get One Free*, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Sym-Bionic Titan, The Thing That Lurked in the Tub)

Joe Sibilski* (Secret Adventures, Tiny Toons Adventures, Animaniacs)

Tavis Silbernagel** (Joseph: King of Dreams, Yin Yang Yo!)

Alan Smart* (Spongebob Squarepants)

Jim Smith (Samurai Jack, Defenders of the Earth, Tom and Jerry Tales, YooHoo and Friends, McGee and Me)

Aaron Springer (Periwinkle Around the World, Korgoth of Barbaria, Spongebob Squarepants, Samurai Jack, Wander Over Yonder, Billy Dilly) [from Bjork’s “I Miss You” music video]

Bob Staake* (Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory)

Steve Stefanelli** (DC Super Hero Girls, Wayside, Next Gen)

Eric Stefani (The Simpsons) [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Gabe Swarr / @gabeswarr (Teamo Supremo, Brandy and Mr. Whiskers, El Tigre, Dexter’s Laboratory, Foe Paws)

Chris Tabares*** / @christabares (Spongebob Squarepants)

Bruce Timm* (Batman: The Animated Series, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures)

Tuck “Billy Bob” Tucker (August 20th, 1961-December 22, 2020) - 2 Stupid Dogs, Spongebob Squarepants, Hey Arnold!

Bryon Vaughns - Tiny Toon Adventures [from DiC’s Beany and Cecil reboot]

Vincent Waller - Spongebob Squarepants, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Evil Con Carne

David “Dave” Wasson - Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Long Gone Gulch, Time Squad, Mickey Mouse, Creature Crunch, The Cuphead Show! [from DiC’s Beany & Cecil reboot]

Erik Wiese - The Mighty B!, Samurai Jack, Spongebob Squarepants, Suburban Daredevil, The Fairly OddParents [from the Bjork “I Miss You” music video and Boo Boo Runs Wild]

Scott Wills - Primal, Quest for Camelot, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan

Bill Wray - Mickey Mouse, King Crab: Space Crustacean, Samurai Jack, Ted Bakes One

Derrick J. Wyatt (???-December 2021) - Teen Titans

The Eminent Professor Dr. John Carey Yost - The Powerpuff Girls, Uncle Grandpa, The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, Looney Tunes Cartoons, Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Maya & Miguel, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Cat Burglar, Creature Crunch

Richard Zaloudek* - All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, What a Cartoon!, The New Scooby-Doo Movies

Raymond Zibach - The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan, Samurai Jack

...among many others.

Now tell me that Spümcø / Ren & Stimpy artists did no wonders for Burbank and Canadian animation!

They’re EVERYWHERE in most popular animation — from Cartoon Network Studios, Disney Television Animation, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Nickelodeon, The Simpsons and Warner Bros. Animation to Don Bluth, Big Idea, Pixar, and more!

*denotes Games Animation only creative

**denotes Spümcø Canada only creative

***denotes Nickelodeon Animation only creative

In this picture are Vincent Waller, Eddie Fitzgerald, Libby Simon, Stephanie Rabinowitz, Susan Lee Johnson, Alionso Angel, Sara Halliburton, Jenny Cohl, Jim Smith, John Kricfalusi, Jordan Rechiek, Joe Orrantia, Henry Porch, Charlie Bean, Richard Pursel, someone unknown, Adrienne Maxwell, and Kim Radford.

Spumco loyalists at the time not pictured are Mike Fontanelli, Brent Kirnbauer, Stacy Nichols, and April March (AKA Elinor Blake).

Tweet version in reply to Vincent Waller here.

This post was meant to wish a Happy Birthday to the highly controversial, formally abusive megalomaniac but also animation legend, founder and big-shot of Spümcø, Michael John Kricfalusi, with extreme favor of his ground-breaking team of creatives, including the late and great Chris Reccardi.

Despite our controversial creator’s past behavior and the abuse he did, as his teammates — his creatives — his alums went on to be part of many cartoons that we enjoy. God knows what would be of them if it were not for their work at Spümcø/John K. Enterprises/etc.

I created this list on September 9th, 2019 A.D. (John K.’s birthday) to list the creatives who are behind some of the most popular of “Western” animation (mostly native to Burbank or Canada).

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Berlinale: Lionsgate’s Grindstone Takes North America on ‘El Americano’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Demonstrating the attractiveness of Latino animation for big movie distributors, Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment Group has acquired all North American rights to the Edward James Olmos executive-produced toon feature “El Americano, the Movie 3D.” Sold by FilmSharks Intl. and written by Richard Pursel (“Sponge Bob,” “Ren & Stimpy”) and veteran animator Phil Roman, it is voiced… Read more »

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Berlinale: Lionsgate’s Grindstone Takes North America on ‘El Americano’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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The Ren & Stimpy Show

#The Ren & Stimpy Show #Ren & Stimpy #John Kricfalusi #Vincent Waller #Richard Pursel #Christmas

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Donovan Cook’s 2 Stupid Dogs/Secret Squirrel Show, now 26 years old, is the renaissance of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, which began to evolve into Cartoon Network Studios (while the rest folded into Warner Bros. Animation). You can tell by the names of Art Director @crackmccraigen, Animation Director Genndy Tartakovsky, and other creatives like Vincent Waller and Mike Moon. 2 Stupid Dogs is essential to the @cartoonnetwork fan and worth a look for any animation/cartoon fan.

Popular cartoon sound designer/editor Jeff Hutchins, did FX editorial for the first season with sound designer/editor Joel Valentine “at the heart of everything”. Jeff Hutchins remembered: “After 2 Stupid Dogs I went to work for other studios & Joel went his own ways. Those days were awesome...”

The episodes about “Red” involved creative support from animation legends like Roberts Gannaway and the controversial creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, too. Many of the creative talents from that Spumco project went on to be part of H-B Cartoons/CN Studios/WB Animation, as well as Disney, Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, etc.

Just this year (2019), Donovan Cook contributed timing direction for some Season 4 episodes of Star vs. the Forces of Evil!

2 Stupid Dogs had a Cartoon Network bumper that I remembered well. I watched not much of it, though. Boomerang used to air it on as well. Samurai Jack EPISODE II subtly inserted the big dog into the dog city.

Thank God for the @warnerarchive release of Volume One that came out on MOD Disc DVD last year! I wish that it had more features and better quality, given that it’s pretty much the first Cartoon Network original (or essentially of Cartoon Cartoons). Being labeled as “Hanna-Barbera CLASSIC COLLECTION” isn’t ultimately fitting, since most CN shows, like Dexter’s Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls, ended with a Hanna-Barbera logo (they created CN as I said before), but they were not released as part of the “Hanna-Barbera” collection. It should be in the “CN Hall of Fame” collection.

Tweet version of 26th anniversary here.

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Select Character Design/Poses from Spümcø’s Weekend Pussy Hunt

Not sure who did ‘em, but I assume that it’s something to do with the storyboard and/or layout guys (and perhaps the clean-up if that refers to design and not animation).

Spümcø projects are always filled with great screenshots. This one has some really trashy content, so I posted some of the best character designs/poses and shots from Icebox’s “Flash-animated” cartoon, out of the 265 shots I spent hours trying to capture from YouTube.

Oh, and Bugs Pussy looks fairly similar to Stimpson J. Cat, if I say so myself. In Jim Smith’s 1994 storyboards, Bugs looks exactly like Stimpy...

screenplay by: Richard Pursel

storyboard by, layout by: Jim Smith

layout by: Aaron Springer, Ken Boyer (a Disney animator FYI)

layout by, clean-up by, layout director (uncredited): Matt Danner

layout by, clean-up by: Ray Morelli, @fredosmond-blog,

clean-up by: @wil-branca, Todd White, Lois Lee

production assistants: Eric J. Pringle (as Pringle), Eric Bauza, Leticia Lacy

flash director, assistant director: @gabeswarr

The IMDb was barely updated on any of the episodes (probably because people thought that it was too trashy and cared not for any of the other people on the cartoon to give them any credit for the non trashy art), so I tried updating most of the episode credits on IMDb.

Would you expect KEN BOYER, a Disney animator like Will Finn, to work with the ground-breaking artists (few of which were abusive and thus controversial) of The Ren & Stimpy Show?

Seriously, I am NOT kidding about the Ken Boyer credit. This guy worked on The Lion King (1994), Tom and Jerry DTV Movies, McGee and Me, Clifford the Big Red Dog (Mike Young), We Bare Bears...and, yet, this adult flash cartoon made by the ORIGINAL Ren & Stimpy artists! Images of credits sourced from Episode 11.

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BTW I am quite aware of the titular double-entendre (or, as I like to call such, a profanity pun)

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Oh, Joy! The Insanely Amazing Art of Animation Cartooning in Ren & Stimpy

In the era and world of the “modern” cartoon, there’s one show that started and defined most of the cartoons that we watch today... and that show is Spümcø’s/s The Ren & Stimpy Show.

What is there to love about a crazy, wacky, gross, dark and violent cartoon that people say is “ground-breaking”?

The gags. The detail. The sound. The stock music. The design. The animation. The layout artists...

I could go on about a show that was a part of @nickanimation’s/@nickelodeon... although, while considered a “kids” show, it truly is one of those... “cartoons for MEN”.

WARNING FOR HATERS: Before I go on, in regards to the show’s controversial creator, If his wrongs cause you to think hatefully of him, AVOID THIS POST! Don’t associate your hate with my posts and tweets about this ground-breaking cartoon.

Anyway, let’s look deep into the magic of the wackiest cartoon ever created that changed animation--namely “Western” animation--forever and for good...

THE TALENT

Under the creators Lynne Naylor-Reccardi, Jim Gomez, Felix Forte, and controversial creator John K., many gifted artists were a part of this amazing series, including @donshank, Charlie Bean, Carey Yost, Bob Camp, Chris Savino, @stephendestefano, the late and great Chris Reccardi (I began this article prior to his death on May 2nd, 2019 A.D.), Marc Perry, Mr. Lawrence (the “Ooh! My leg! My leg...” guy), Vincent Waller, Donovan Cook, Larry Murphy, Richard Pursel, @gadworks, @ncrossanimation, and many others. These people, many of whom were in the layout department, would go on from Spümcø to work on some of the most popular pieces of “Western” animation in history, like Spongebob Squarepants, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Mickey Mouse (Paul Rudish era), The Incredibles, the also ground-breaking The 2 Stupid Dogs/Super Secret Secret Squirrel Show and so much more!

One thing to note about these creatives is that John K.’s production company, Spümcø, was based in Canada, and so were its staff and creatives. I note this as most Canadian cartoons these days have no creatives who work in popular American animation (save for Wild Kratts character designer Alan Stewart, who did character design for some Season 7--or, in “reboot terms”, season 2--episodes of The Powerpuff Girls, as well as Lauren Faust’s My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Season 1 of Johnny Test). Most Canadian cartoons these days are on PBS or Cartoon Network, and some of those are imported from Teletoon or YTV. Such Canadian cartoons as Total Drama’s franchise, The Adventures of Benjamin Bear, My Pet Goldfish is Evil, and the like don’t have creatives who work on more “American” media.

Certain talents of Ren & Stimpy included Michael Fontanelli, Charlie Bean, Vincent Waller and Eddie Fitzgerald (creator of CN’s Tales of Worm Paranoia), who went on to contribute their artist talents in the YouTube Poop-phenomenon Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, which somewhat resembles that art direction of The Ren & Stimpy Show. Such talents also contributed to another insane-looking cartoon, Film Roman’s The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. Likewise, one of my favorite character designers, Carey Yost, who contributed to The Powerpuff Girls, Uncle Grandpa and Spongebob Squarepants, was a major layout artist on this show. Charlie Bean (Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls, The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) and Don Shank (most of the above, plus Sym-Bionic Titan) also served as layout artists, and they with Carey created a gem of a Cartoon Network Minisode, Buy One, Get One Free*, which reflects the animation and art of Spümcø and features creatives of Spümcø.

THE DETAILS

First thing to note in both art and animation is the barrier-breaking levels of exaggeration. The “wild take” is a common element to slapstick cartoons like The Ren & Stimpy Show, and the controversial creator was a part of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons (which developed the Cartoon Network and its studios). Many Spümcø creatives would work at H-B, too. Hanna-Barbera, who worked with animation legends like Tex Avery, would create some of the wildest takes in cartoons with A Pup Named Scooby-Doo!, but The Ren & Stimpy Show’s Season 2 opener “In The Army”, written & directed by Bob Camp, features what is probably the wildest wild take ever conceived by man in the history of history:

“You don’t want to anger that big, dopey...”

“...sar...”

*( Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - FLAT JEWS HARP BOING )*

*clink!*

*( Sound Ideas, THUMP, CARTOON - TUBE THUNK 01 )* [+12 pitch]

*glass breaks*

*( Sound Ideas, WOBBLE, CARTOON - SAW BLADE WOBBLE, MEDIUM )*

This wild take is really slow, huh?

Wait for it...

“GYAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

As if that weren’t wild enough, his brain pops out of his skull! Now, that’s more than just icing on the cake... it’s GENIUS!

Teen Titans GO! is perhaps the peak in the evolution of the “modern” cartoon that began with Ren & Stimpy, and in the hands of producer/director Luke Cormican, a layout artist on Ren & Stimpy’s “Adult Party Cartoon” episodes. It’s very nice that, in TTG episode “The Streak (Part 2)”, there was the parody illustration of duos in media, comparing Robin to Ren and Beast Boy to Stimpy. Some of the character designers on TTG worked on shows that included creatives from The Ren & Stimpy Show, too, namely Chris Battle.

One of the most popular episodes, of course, is the season one finale, Stimpy’s Invention.

These shots from the scene of Stimpy attempting to invent something are just beautiful! Great attention to detail and the lighting (including effects design) give a very cinematic, theatrical feel to a mere, 11-minute episode of a TV show. The art of the series has the charm of a 1940′s Paramount/Famous Studios “Noveltoon”, the Bob Clampett-directed Merry Melodies/Looney Tunes shorts (a major inspiration for John K.), and the Saturday morning cartoons of the 1960s, and the show’s creatives would become part of certain modern cartoons in the 1990s, some of which were dubbed by @cartoonnetwork as “Cartoon Cartoons”.

Also cinematic to the quality is the authentic film grain, a result of recording the cels (animated frame by frame on their respective backgrounds) on film. The deterioration of the episode’s film masters make it look believably like something out of the 1960s or even The Golden Age of Hollywood, the 1940s! (I personally dislike the quality that the videotape masters add to the picture, though. It may be that, in the future, UHD / HD prints could use the actual film masters, though!)

Some shots of Stimpy in Stimpy’s Invention have a color mistake where, like in the title card of the pilot “Big House Blues”, Stimpy’s nose is red instead of blue. It looks pretty swell on him, though.

The grooves and moves that Ren & Stimpy make during the montage of the song Happy Happy Joy Joy are filled with bouncy, weight-distributing pieces of animation, with lots of squash and stretch.

Speaking of “squash and stretch”, the above pics are of the extremes as Stimpy does a take of joy when he succeeds at making Ren be happy.

The takes of the characters really stretch their design and animation. Aurally, a common sound effect to accent these takes is a quick, loud record scratch, and their shaking/trembling movements often sound like a record rapidly skipping.

Regarding one of my favorite character designers, much of the designs by @cheyennecurtisart and @lynnvwang in early episodes of Disney’s Star vs. the Forces of Evil (particularly “Brittney’s Party”) are highly graphic and detailed, and that work of hers reminds me of the designs by Chris & Lynne Reccardi, Jim Smith, John K. and others. Very similar are the designs of @stephendestefano on Disney’s Mickey Mouse, which are also very graphic and extreme with character takes and injury aftermaths.

In the infamous Happy Happy Joy Joy sequence in “Stimpy’s Invention”, to stop himself from being controlled by the Happy Helmet, Ren whacks it (and thus himself) with a hammer to break it..

...and every hit pushes the extremes of not only the looks of his body, but also the styles of the psychotic-looking backgrounds.

Often in the show is a lot of mental breakdowns, including the end of Stimpy’s Invention as Ren goes from being the angriest he ever was in his entire life...

...to becoming very jovial as he comes to love being angry. That also causes a change in these psychedelic, psychotic backgrounds. The practice of such backgrounds came to other cartoons of the 1990s, such as The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show, in the episode “Night of the Living Shnookums”, with art direction by Lynne Naylor.

Another great episode, one of my favorites, is “The Boy Who Cried Rat!”, directed by Vincent Waller, who, replying to my tweet compliment, described the episode as “a chance to tip the hat to all the amazing cartoonist/ writer/ funny people who took the time to invest theirselves into their artwork for the enjoyment and tutelage of the regular folks and cartoonists to come.” The episode involves a literal game of “Cat and Mouse” and Stimpy tries to make a living for him and Ren by unleashing his inner cat in service to a couple. It probably bases itself, of course, on Tom and Jerry, and Ren’s costume references the fashion of Mickey Mouse.

Eventually, Stimpy is forced into eating the rat whom Ren plays (this reminds me of another classic cartoon, @paramountpictures’s Noveltoon called Cheese Burglar, featuring Herman and Katnip). In terms of cartoon physics, though, how did Ren become small enough to fit inside Stimpy’s mouth?

This episode features a very clever, unexpected visual gag that is the result of being hit with a frying pan.

See? and it’s not even a violent image, either.

Sometimes, the show would feature various segments among the episodes, including their close-out segment “What’ll We Do ‘Til Then”. The Ren & Stimpy Show actually predates Animaniacs (1993), VeggieTales (1993) and Uncle Granpda (2013), which were similar with a variety of segment material.

THE ANIMATION

The animation is certainly something when one considers the defining quality of this show’s animation, which occasionally was produced by Rough Draft Studios in Seoul, Korea, one of the most popular animation studios today. There’s also some great timing directors, like David Feiss (Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy), Bob Jacques, James Tim Walker (Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls, Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring), Kent Butterworth (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) and even the awesome Tony Fucile (Osmosis Jones, The Iron Giant, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Inside Out, The Little Mermaid), who was uncredited for a few episodes like “In The Army” and “Ren’s Toothache”).

This scene of animation from the episode “Nurse Stimpy” (frame shown above) is one of the very best pieces of animation ever done in the series. The balance between slow and mostly fast-paced animation/timing, along with weight, looks very cinematic--of theatrical-quality animation (like Don Bluth, Tony Fucile, etc.). The film’s quality is fairly deteriorated here, but film specks and stuff add to the cinematic feel.

THE SOUND

The sound design, of course, done at Horta Editorial and Sound, which became/folded into Hacienda Post at Sabre Media Studios, was also defining for the modern cartoon as an unusual array of sound effects were used to accent all sorts of takes, impacts, etc. The use of Hanna-Barbera & Warner Bros. sound effects (mostly available from Sound Ideas) with Disney sound effects (mostly available from Hollywood Edge’s Cartoon Trax Volume One) became a very common blend for many sound designers, up to today. Hacienda Post’s founder and president, Timothy J. Borquez (Spongebob Squarepants, Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls), served as the Re-Recording Mixer and Supervising Editor, as well as the uncredited sound designer, and considers the groundbreaking show to be “a laboratory for using classic sounds (in different contextual situations); adding Foley and new design to create "hybrid" textures and moments. We conscientiously did this and it opened up a whole new world for us! A lot of this was done on the mix stage.” He worked with talented sound editors like Michael M. Geisler, M.P.S.E., Michael A. Gollom, and sound/music editor William B. Griggs. Speaking of cartoon sound design expert Michael M. Geisler, M.P.S.E., in an Animation World Network article, Michael Geisler described the detailed process of sound design in a moment of the controversially violent scene in “Man’s Best Friend” (which never showed the credits): “Sometimes the eyelid closing and the eyelid opening are two very separate actions, and so each motion, open and close, must have different sound effects. In "Man's Best Friend," the classic Ren & Stimpy episode that introduces George Liquor, Ren smacks George with his own "Prize Bludgeoning Oar" and George's eye pops out of his head like a piece of meat. The eyelid does a wet sounding movement down over the eye until the eyelids meet and blink (splat, wet hit), and then slosh up again.” For some reason, however, on prints of that episode, George’s blink is silent.

The music for the show was usually unoriginal, very much like the series soundtrack to Spongebob, as it was mostly composed of music provided by Associated Production Music (APM). This included classical music, too, just as Tom and Jerry, Disney’s Silly Symphonies and Warner Bros.’ Merry Melodies/Looney Tunes would often use. Someone even created 3 volumes of Production Music from Ren & Stimpy, unofficial collections of APM music from the series. I kind of wish that they made those.

You may wonder at this point: After many years of seeing almost nothing of this series, how found I The Ren & Stimpy Show in my life?

I knew or remember very little of the show as I grew up (at least attempting to watch the episode “Ren’s Pecs” one Sunday afternoon in 2007 on Nick), but on August 13th, 2016 I saw another Spümcø project, the later Yogi Bear (or Ranger Smith) episode “Boo Boo Runs Wild”, on @adultswim. John K.’s approach to a classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon (CN doesn’t even air this stuff on anymore) was very inspiring. Looking the names of the team up on IMDb, I found that they were a part of many amazing cartoons that i grew up watching! In May 2017, recommended on my YouTube user were “disturbing” scenes from The Ren & Stimpy Show, including Ren’s insane threats in Sven Höek (the audio of which I heard in a YTP where the King [of Hyrule] goes psycho and does the same menacing threats) and perhaps a spiritual taste of Hell in Stimpy’s Fan Club. Ren’s acting (voiced then by creator John K) was so hilarious that, from that point onward, I desired to see more of this groundbreaking cartoon on which I was missing out.

On the day that I began to concept this post, June 18th, 2018, in my final visit to Toys ‘R Us (a local one, though I remember visiting the New York one in 2001), I got collectible Ren & Stimpy figures, and at the time of this post’s original concept I placed Ren and Stimpy in the presence of my Aku wacky wobbler.

It’s interesting that a 2018 Google spot regarding how children react to crowd noise used an excerpt from the episode Stimpy’s Fan Club. This practice is like certain phone commercials (namely T-Mobile, I think) that use some brief footage from “public domain” cartoons. Likewise, what Google did with that ad makes The Ren & Stimpy Show feel like a public domain cartoon (and the highly famous Merry Melodies/Looney Tunes and Popeye shorts were often distributed as “public domain” too, though WarnerMedia holds the ultimate rights to the shorts).

From a Christian viewpoint, The Ren & Stimpy Show is sometimes controversial, but its biggest controversy is whether it’s really a kids show or not--perhaps more of an adult show--mostly due to violence and intense situations like the aforementioned mental breakdowns (this excludes the “Adult Party Cartoon” episodes as those were deliberately produced for adults). Of course, classic cartoons of MGM, Warner Bros. and other studios would often show violence, sensuality, smoking, and alcoholics (even though Cartoon Network/Boomerang still rates them “TV-G”), so even those weren’t produced completely with children in mind. That’s why I consider this show and the aforementioned classic cartoons as “cartoons for MEN”.

The humor and heart of The Ren & Stimpy Show isn’t the purest either, given all of Ren’s hate and violent anger, but Stimpy’s Fan Club has an actually touching ending: after attempting to kill Stimpy or otherwise at least upset him, Ren discovers that the one fan letter addressed to him was from no one else but Stimpy himself--and Stimpy meant every word in his letter. Then, Ren is broken to tears.

THE FUTURE?

As a devote cartoon-watching guy, I find great inspiration from the barrier-breaking art and animation, visually and aurally, of The Ren & Stimpy Show. If you love slapstick comedy and cartoons, then this one’s definitely worth a watch--essential viewing. I surely hope that it comes back again; I can agree on one’s opinion for the show to come back (and, if you want the show to be rebooted as I do, share this IMDb list with Nickelodeon/Spümcø or whatever studio’s in charge). Now, if Viacom/Nick is willing, [adult swim]/Turner/WarnerMedia or some other studio may be better off to purchase the rights to Ren & Stimpy, as Nick or at least Paramount no longer wants anything to do with the series (due to the objectionable material in the “Adult Party Cartoon”), according to this article.

There were rumors of an upcoming Ren & Stimpy short that Nickelodeon Animation was producing. IMDb once removed the title, but now the short “It’s Our House Now!” may be in production by Jessica Borutski, also a former layout artist on the “Adult Party Cartoon”; this may be based on a short John K. sketched to promote Sponge Out of Water.

The closest thing to Ren & Stimpy so far is John K.’s Cans with out Labels [WARNING: some strong language and nudity], a dark, edgy Kickstarter short featuring George Liquor, including storyboards & layouts by Jim Smith and amazingly cartoonish, detailed, over-the-top animation, contributed by @gadworks, @mikepelensky and @sandrarivasart (a DVD is available for $25 purchase here). Color cards were made by @kalikazoo too.

In the future, also, it would be swell to see true high-definition transfers of the actual film negatives for the non-digitally animated episodes of Ren & Stimpy. Most filmed cartoons were often recorded onto videotape masters, which lowered the quality, and I suppose that some of the film negatives still exist in Spumco’s/Nickelodeon’s archives. In point of fact, this clip of The Muddy Mudskipper Intro here looks like it came from an actual film negative (of which I tweeted), with brighter colors and no videotape quality. Though the film looks fairly aged, it looks better than usual prints of the scene.

As we come to the conclusion, I have some additional notes: I began this post in January 2019. 5 months later, Chris Reccardi died, so I refer to him in my posts as the Late and Great Chris Reccardi. He and his family are in my thoughts and prayers. A documentary premiered at Sundance 2020 on January 28th, 2020, Ron Cicero’s Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story; while the controversial creator is known for some terrible things he did due to mental issues in the past, the least people could do is respect the work of both John K and his groundbreaking team. If it weren’t for them, many great Western animation projects for Cartoon Network, Pixar, Disney TVA, Nickelodeon and others would not be the same.

Before I close, whether or not you think negatively of John K., here’s something you should know, understand, and remember about the value of the creatives of The Ren & Stimpy Show: "Brilliant cartoonists like Lynne Naylor, Jim Smith, Bob Camp, Vincent Waller, Rich Pursel, Elinor Blake, Bill Wray, Chris Reccardi, Gabe Swarr and many many more added a lot of richness and personality to the cartoons. Actors like Billy West, Cheryl Chase, Mike Pataki, Gary Owens, Eric Bauza and others inspired us all to capture the subtle nuances in their readings. Henry Porch, Bill Griggs and Tim Borquez contributed much to the wacky new sound design style Ren and Stimpy was known for. We also had some very talented producers like Chris Danzo, Libby Simon and Kevin Kolde who helped me execute the totally new production system that gave the artists ways to express themselves more personally. These people and more are all heroes to me. Think of them when you remember my cartoons." I will always think of these people and pray for them.

For the inspiration, I give thanks to the entire Spümcø staff and creatives who went on to produce some of the best cartoons ever made.

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