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[link to http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/01/your-pal-john-k.html?fbclid=IwAR1yAeAJ1KA3B-Tx3i2FIlwvpGn2T13_UMmauALe3_iF7d7QyNxS3_LQBBc ]
In 1998, an aspiring cartoonist wrote a letter to John Kricfalusi of "Ren and Stimpy" fame asking for advice. JohnK's response was truly sublime, inspirational stuff. See it here:
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Your pal, John K.
In 1998, aged just 14, aspiring young cartoonist Amir Avni decided to…
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Reuben Baron
Reuben Baron And if that aspiring cartoonist was a girl, that letter would have been a lot less "inspirational"...
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Ted Watts
Ted Watts And since people always wonder what everyone's talking about when the issue gets raised, here's how that story worked if you were a young girl
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/.../john-kricfalusi-ren...
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Francisco Ramiro De La Garza Alanis
Francisco Ramiro De La Garza Alanis Its so creepy that also Rebecca Sugar could have been one of his victims (she used to post a lot on his blog asking for advice as a big fan)
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Ron Villanova
Ron Villanova Francisco Ramiro
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That honestly makes me relieved for ger
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Matt Hunter
Matt Hunter And of course the letter closes with a drawing of Ren leering at a young woman.
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Ted Watts
Ted Watts Hah! Great quotes from John's Blog in relation to Rebecca Sugar!
"We met Rebecca Sugar, an animation student with crazy talent and I
will link to her site later to make all the rest of you young cartoonist
buggers sick with envy.Why all of a sudden are all the girls the best
cartoonists?? Maybe because all the guys are now drawing in that faggy
Cal Arts flat phony ass Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network style."
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bonus: it's got this quote about Katie Rice: ""Katie Goddess Rice was
there drawing the world's cutest girls for everybody and taking photos
of the best comicon bodies-maybe she'll let me post them here so you can
see all the perfect flesh that was created in God's image."
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Philip Kippel
Philip Kippel Ted Watts
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Robert Headley
Robert Headley Yuck
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Andrew Morrice
Andrew Morrice "ALLRIGHT BASTARD"
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Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson Dumbass motherf**ker
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Marianna Hersko
Marianna Hersko Fuck that guy
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Brett Gee
Brett Gee I loved Ren and Stimpy, but that guy is a Creep with a capital CREEP
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Michel Magnan
Michel Magnan Wait a sec.....I read that letter. It was Prime advice...pretty much the same as I've given when talking with young artists.
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Anthony DiPaola
Anthony DiPaola I don't understand, what's wrong with it? If you were being sincere about him offering inspirational advice, then I agree.
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Sérgio Gonçalves
Sérgio Gonçalves Nothing is wrong with the letter per se. I believe that he offers inspirational advice in this letter, and that it's worth a read for that reason. The other, unsavory aspects of his life story that have been discussed here are a pity and a travesty. They will forever tarnish his legacy. But then that's nothing compared to what his victims suffered.
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Matt Hunter
Matt Hunter
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Chris Etrata
Chris Etrata The last comment about "our cartoons' is egotistical as f***
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Vincent EL
Vincent EL Plenty of people have given inspirational advice who weren't massive creeps. Plenty of people have drawn funny cartoons. Why do people insist on continuing to lift this guy up?
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Jeanne Brooks Vocke
Jeanne Brooks Vocke He's a creep no doubt. Guess some people can't let go of their fondness for him, and want others to see what they still see themselves. I'd be lying myself by insisting this letter wasn't nice of him. But, Cosby, and Michael Jackson have also done man…See More
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Chuck Thompson
Chuck Thompson Jeanne Brooks Vocke sometimes I feel like people like this loudly broadcast when they’re doing nice things as a smokescreen. Like the guy from the band Crystal Castles would donate all the proceeds from his albums to feminist causes but was a similar sex creep to John K. grooming young girls.
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Jeanne Brooks Vocke
Jeanne Brooks Vocke Possibly, Chuck. Still, those who know how to rationalize would know that even if one had done many little acts of kindness or charity, it still wouldn't be able to outweigh something that was so disturbing and selfish.
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Julie Esris
Julie Esris And of course he talks seriously to a young boy but with the girl he flatters and grooms.
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Robert Headley
Robert Headley I realised that I only like ten and stimpy when camp was involved.
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Robert Headley
Robert Headley https://renandstimpy.fandom.com/wiki/A_Yard_Too_Far
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A Yard Too Far
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And the comments from the now deleted thread pointing to this (note "see more" doesn't work once it's deleted; an open page just allows you to harvest what's there since it's been open):
ReplyDelete"Darren Green ...It was removed? :/
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Jonathan Gies
Jonathan Gies I missed this. Why was such a thread deleted?
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Shawn Hopkins
Shawn Hopkins Jonathan Gies Obviously for a reason. Reposting it seems like not such a great idea. 🙂
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Jonathan Gies
Jonathan Gies The majority of comments can't be read because whoever copy-pasted them forgot to click all the "See More" lines.
So I really don't know why this thread would be deleted. We've certainly had far, far more contentious threads on here before. Nobody was even fighting, from what I could see."