Reported by Buzzfeed:
The Disturbing Secret Behind An Iconic Cartoon | Buzzfeed | March 29, 2018
Robyn Byrd and Katie Rice were teenage Ren & Stimpy fans who wanted to make cartoons. They say they were preyed upon by the creator of the show, John Kricfalusi, who admitted to having had a 16-year-old girlfriend when approached by BuzzFeed News. ...
... Although sexual abuse allegations against Kricfalusi have never been made public before, his relationship with Byrd has been an open secret within animation — so open that “a girl he had been dating since she was fifteen years old” was referenced briefly in a book about the history of Ren & Stimpy. Tony Mora, an art director at Warner Bros., and Gabe Swarr, a producer at Warner Bros., worked alongside Byrd at Spumco. The male artists said stories of how Kricfalusi sexually harassed female artists, including teenage girls, were known through the industry. “It’s always been there,” Mora said. Moreover, Kricfalusi made his fixation on teenage girls plainly obvious in his art, even as he worked on animated projects for the likes of Cartoon Network, Fox Kids, and Adult Swim. In an interview with Howard Stern in the mid-’90s, the radio host asked him about a character in the comic book anthology the cartoonist was then promoting. Stern called Sody Pop “a hot chick with big cans and nice legs.” Kricfalusi responded with a smile: “She’s underage, too.” ...
Picked up by other outlets, here are a couple of them:
Report: ‘Ren & Stimpy’ Creator Preyed on Teenage Girls | Daily Beast | March 29, 2018
‘Ren & Stimpy’ Creator John Kricfalusi Accused of Preying on and Sexually Harassing Teenage Girls | IndieWire | March 29, 2018
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carmencita ago
Kricfalusi's attorney's response to to the Buzz Feed Article
“The 1990s were a time of mental and emotional fragility for Mr. Kricfalusi, especially after losing Ren and Stimpy, his most prized creation. For a brief time, 25 years ago, he had a 16-year-old girlfriend. Over the years John struggled with what were eventually diagnosed mental illnesses in 2008. To that point, for nearly three decades he had relied primarily on alcohol to self-medicate. Since that time he has worked feverishly on his mental health issues, and has been successful in stabilizing his life over the last decade. This achievement has allowed John the opportunity to grow and mature in ways he’d never had a chance at before.”
We know what he is doing. He is passing this pedophile's actions as a mental illness problem. It is not. This is not anything that can be corrected with medication or therapy. This is ingrained and cannot be turned around. He is a pedophile.
testeverything ago
Lets keep in mind multiple Nazi leadership figures married 16 year olds.
Let's not forget Hitler's 16 year old french girl friend towards the end of WWI with which he had an illegitamate son named Jean-Marie.
carmencita ago
I am keeping it in mind, and yes he too was a pedophile if he and Nazi figures married 16 yr. olds. Who is supporting Hitler? Not I. I would never compare Kricfalusi to Hitler but regarding their choice in women, yes they were way too young and that is wrong. They are both disgusting perverts.
testeverything ago
A lot of people here unfortunately do support Hitler so I like to mess with them. It's not too young. For milenium that was how courtship worked. It's only in the last 80 years we've had a problem with it and it's a little bit strange when people are violently protective a moral only 80 years old and try to shun people for pointing out the reality of the situation. Its very Salemesk when there is a new moral scare and a side is so sure they are right they can't listen to other people. There is a difference between rape and not rape and there is a difference between a child and what we have unfortunately labeled to be children.
This non-equivelency is important because when the moral enforcers fail to recognize this distinction you lead men like Anthony Wiener, a general sex addict, to end up working with and protecting actual child human trafficers and abusers like the clintons.