John Kricfalusi is the animated cartoon’s modern pioneer. With his landmark 1991 TV series "Ren & Stimpy," featuring the demented, wildly anti-social and hilariously inappropriate antics of the two title characters, Canadian-born animator John Kricfalusi (b. 1955) kicked modern cartooning in its underpants, starting a myriad of trends: the gross-out subversive cartoon ("Beavis and Butthead," "South Park"), the thick-lined flat retro cartoon ("Dexter’s Lab," "Fairly Odd Parents," etc.), the caricatured revival of classic characters cartoon ("Boo Boo Runs Wild," "The Flintstones On The Rocks"). After revolutionizing TV cartoons, Kricfalusi followed up by inventing internet cartoons in 1996 with "The Goddamn George Liquor Program" and developed the techniques for Flash animation that are used at practically every studio today. Kricfalusi started his career during the dark-ages of cartoons. In the 80s, he worked on such "crap" (as he calls it) as "The Smurfs," "Laverne and Shirley In The Army" and other Saturday Morning Cartoons being churned out by the animation factories. During this depressing period, he and other disgruntled cartoonists developed and pitched his own cartoon creations. His frantic and extremely sweaty pitches terrified network executives. Luckily for Kricfalusi and the animation world, Ralph Bakshi discovered John in 1987 and hired him to direct CBS’ Bakshi’s "Mighty Mouse." This was the cartoon that started the so-called ‘creator-driven’ revolution. Kricfalusi hired a crew of artists that, like him, were dissatisfied with the formula cartoons they were forced to work on at other studios. Kricfalusi developed a production system based on the classic cartoon system of the 40s, but adapted it to the realities of TV production. Bakshi’s "Mighty Mouse" became the foundation of not only the creative revolution that followed, but also gave the industry the mechanism that would allow it to happen. It put the artists back in charge for the first time in 30 years. Two years later, "Ren and Stimpy" debuted and the revolution was in full swing.