Ren & Stimpy's creator, John Kricfalusi, was credited to adding " tidbits of poor taste " to the three " Little Red Riding Hood " episodes, and a few other Spümcø artists also contributed to selected episodes during the course of the show.

Spümcø co-founder and then-president John Kricfalusi sold The Ren & Stimpy Show to Nickelodeon in 1988, which became Spümcø's first original animated series production.

Prior to the founding of Spümcø, two animators, John Kricfalusi and Lynne Naylor, would spend their time attempting to sell original cartoon ideas throughout the 1980s, while working for various animation studios like Filmation.

After only a few months of the founding of Spümcø, John Kricfalusi decided to fly to Nickelodeon's headquarters in New York, where he would pitch five ideas for cartoons.

Nickelodeon fired John Kricfalusi in 1992, and Nickelodeon moved production from Spümcø to Games Animation.

During 1997, John Kricfalusi and his staff at Spümcø launched their Web site, whose goal was to provide cartoons for audiences, without the censorship of television networks.

In 2005, Kricfalusi shut down Spümcø shortly thereafter, following a lawsuit by Carbunkle filed against Spümcø in the Canadian court system.

Kricfalusi and many other Spümcø animators worked for Donovan Cook's 2 Stupid Dogs during this period as well.

Kricfalusi felt the show's supervisors were doing away with the Spümcø style, and was displeased with the direction of the show.

The online Flash animation was produced by John Kricfalusi and Spümcø, featuring Quisp and his sidekick Quunchy ( voiced by Corey Burton and Matt Danner, respectively ).

The network officially canceled Adult Party Cartoon around November 2004 ( Kricfalusi shut down his studio in Canada shortly thereafter following a lawsuit by Carbunkle filed against Spümcø in the Canadian court system ), but in 2005, Kricfalusi announced that all of the Adult Party Cartoon cartoons were coming to DVD, and that the possibility exists for new The Ren & Stimpy Show episodes to be produced off the back of successful sales.

George Liquor ( often taking his epithet as George Liquor, American ), most famous for his appearances on The Ren & Stimpy Show, is a cartoon character created by John Kricfalusi and is a mascot for Kricfalusi's defunct animation studio, Spümcø.

The Ren & Stimpy Show was a cartoon series that Kricfalusi created, sold to the channel Nickelodeon, and directed at his studio, Spümcø.

The series was written and drawn by Spümcø co-founders Kricfalusi and Jim Smith and other members of the original Spümcø staff.

Jimmy the Idiot Boy is a cartoon character created and voiced by John Kricfalusi and is the official mascot for Kricfalusi's company Spümcø.

The music video for " I Miss You " was animated and directed by John Kricfalusi of Spümcø, best known for the Ren & Stimpy cartoons, which Björk admired.

It was a huge springboard for many cartoonists and animators who would later become famous, including John Kricfalusi ( creator of The Ren and Stimpy Show ), Bruce W. Timm ( producer of Batman: The Animated Series ), Jim Reardon ( writer for Tiny Toon Adventures, Wall-E and director of many Simpsons episodes ), Tom Minton ( writer and producer for many Warner Bros. television cartoons, including Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Baby Looney Tunes and Duck Dodgers ), Lynne Naylor ( co-founder of Spümcø, character designer for Batman: The Animated Series and storyboard artist for The Powerpuff Girls and Cow and Chicken among other work ), Rich Moore ( animation director for The Simpsons and Futurama ), Andrew Stanton ( director of Finding Nemo and Wall-E ) and others.

The music video for " I Miss You " was animated and directed by John Kricfalusi of Spümcø, best known for the Ren & Stimpy cartoons, which Björk admired.

In the Spümcø era of The Ren and Stimpy Show and Adult Party Cartoon, Ren is voiced by John Kricfalusi in " a bad imitation of Peter Lorre.

" In the Games Animation era of the Nickelodeon series, Ren is voiced by Billy West using a combination of Burl Ives, Kirk Douglas, and a slight " south of the border accent ", after John Kricfalusi and the others at Spümcø were fired.

Smith later briefly worked on Tiny Toon Adventures, and then along with Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, and Lynne Naylor, he founded Spümcø where he co-created Ren & Stimpy and The Ripping Friends.

Production designer Wolf Kroeger was forced to drastically compact his sets, and animation director and designer John Kricfalusi had to push his team, including Lynne Naylor, Jim Smith and Bob Jaques, to complete the animation within a few weeks.

John Kricfalusi, Lynne Naylor, Bob Camp and Jim Smith, who all co-founded the company, were cartoonists who were either laid off by animation companies, or willingly decided to quit.

Kricfalusi's interest in Golden Age animation crystallized during his stay at Sheridan College, where an acquaintance of his held weekly screenings of old films and cartoons, among them the cartoons of Bob Clampett and Tex Avery, which left a deep impression on Kricfalusi.

After moving to Los Angeles, Kricfalusi was introduced to Milt Gray by Bob Clampett, suggesting he should join Gray's classical animation class.

From 1979 to the mid 1980s, Kricfalusi worked for Filmation and later Hanna-Barbera on various shows which he once described as " the worst animation of all time.

Under Bakshi, Kricfalusi directed the animation for The Rolling Stones ' 1986 music video " Harlem Shuffle ".

On February 13, 2006, Kricfalusi started his own weblog, John K Stuff, posting about cartoons and the animation industry.

The DVDs also feature several special features including interviews / documentaries of the people behind the cartoons such as Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, musical conductor Carl Stalling, and voice-artist Mel Blanc, pencil tests, and audio commentaries by animation historians Jerry Beck, Michael Barrier, and Greg Ford, as well as current animators Paul Dini, Eric Goldberg, and John Kricfalusi.

A few of the head storyboard artists, screenwriters, and animators returned from the original Ren and Stimpy series, such as Vincent Waller, Eddie Fitzgerald, and Jim Smith, but most of the animation and writing team were a new team of artists, specifically instructed and headed by Kricfalusi himself.

While working on The Ren & Stimpy Show, Nikki Vanzo approached John Kricfalusi, creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, about taking the animation to Korea.

The first prominent use of the Flash animation format was by Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi.

Kricfalusi said the process of using the older animation was not a creative process.

His earliest known venture into professional animation was at Ralph Bakshi Productions, where he worked on The New Adventures along with other young animators like Jeff Pidgeon, Eddie Fitzgerald, Tom Minton, John Kricfalusi, and Jim Reardon.

The live-action was directed by famous animation director Ralph Bakshi and the animation was directed by future The Ren & Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi.

Kricfalusi left Bakshi's studio to work on The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil for ABC, where he teamed up with many of the people who would later work with him on The Ren & Stimpy Show.

Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi from production of the series in late September 1992, leaving it in the hands of Nickelodeon's Games Animation studio, which continued producing it for three more seasons before its cancellation.

When Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi in 1992, the Nickelodeon-owned studio Games Animation took over the series, leading many animators to quit the series.

All of the episodes were animated at Carbunkle Cartoons, the studio that Kricfalusi would send his best episodes to be animated at during the Nickelodeon years ( including " Space Madness ", " Black Hole " and " The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen "), in association with Big Star Productions.

In 1985, he teamed up with young Canadian-born-and-raised animator John Kricfalusi to make a hybrid live-action / animated music video for The Rolling Stones ' The Harlem Shuffle, which was released in early 1986.

In spite of the show's popularity, the show was beset with production delays and censorship battles with Nickelodeon, which fired Kricfalusi in 1992.

The show continued under the production of the network-owned Games Animation company until 1996, though many animators departed with Kricfalusi.

TNN revived the show in a more risqué form in 2003, with Kricfalusi receiving more creative freedom, but it only lasted ten episodes.

Syd Iwanter, the Creative Director of TMS productions came up with the concept and hired Kricfalusi to draw a one sheet pitch featuring the main characters for a proposed HIGH SCHOOL 2525.

Coffey agreed with Kricfalusi that, " If storyboards were good enough for Bugs Bunny, they were good enough for her.

Kricfalusi described Nickelodeon in the earliest period as being " simple " as there was one executive, Vanessa Coffey, whom Kricfalusi said that he got along with.

According to Kricfalusi, the episodes continued production since he did a " trade " with Coffey, which would be the exchange of having " really crazy " episodes for some " heart-warming " episodes.

Kricfalusi made remarks specifically to the episode " Man's Best Friend ", which features Ren beating the character George Liquor with an oar, which may be the cause for his firing.

Each episode was usually tagged with a short episode which Kricfalusi says was composed of “ left overs ”.

ABC had been negotiating for the production of the show with the Clampett family, who insisted that Kricfalusi would be part of the production.

The Clampett family were ultimately not very happy with the cartoon, but remained supportive of Kricfalusi.

Kricfalusi points specifically to the episode " Man's Best Friend ", which features a violent climax where Ren brutally assaults the character George Liquor with an oar, as being the turning point in his relationship with Nickelodeon.

In 2012, Kricfalusi collaborated with streetwear brand Stussy to create a short series of apparel based on his designs.

He is joined by, among others, a drunk cat with the red nose, gray fur, big lips, and saggy jowls who was popular enough to appear in several later cartoons such as in the Rolling Stones music video Harlem Shuffle ( with art by Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi ); in a few episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures ; an episode of The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ; and among the many cats in Tweety's High-Flying Adventure.