I am going to make this as clear as I can when it comes to John K.
As an artist, HE WAS one of the greatest cartoonists ever. However, his organic work is closer to a Sadian vision of masculinity than what than the people who he considered the greatest animators of all time (such as Bill Tyla). He and his Japanese counter parts (I dont consider someone like Yuasa who is closer to his look, a counter part
In terms of Popularity- I compare him to the way the Otakus in this country compares Kishimoto, Oda, and Kibo, as the new Go Nagai, Osamu Teskua, and Leiji Matsumoto and in turn because of the utter lack of education about the animation world in the post modern era- the new (Chuck) Jones, Disney, Hanna Barbara)
have things in there work that hinders them.
Johns major problem, and in extension a major problem with many works coming from the 1990s, outside of Evanglion, Batman TAS, Gargoyles and such series- he cannot tell a story LONGER than 15 min at a time. He uses the groteste art as he produces as the story but when its done longer than a certain time frame, he just continues to produce a sexual gag, a fart joke and so on to keep the unwashed masses entertained, while the whole point of the short was to tell the story in the allotted time frame. This is a major problem with the modern animation industry, because the writers write longer than 21 pages (for a 24 min episode) He writes under and that what kills him.
He also has a major problem with where people came from, i.e. the Cal Arts issue- with the Midwestern teenagers who still live with mother and draw anime etc, go to cal arts and dont produce good TV animation, but Disney like retreads. This I somewhat agree with. There are certain people who shouldnt be in this industry- they just want a paycheck and food- they should be working at walmart if you want that.
My problem is that there are those who are taught in the classical style, such as Jhonny Vasquez and Michael Gagne and produced such work that I feel is better overall than Ren and Stimpy
Organic work doesnt have to be about the girls with BIG lips, short tits, HUGE ass. It can be simple as Madam Serapis legendary work Persoplis, and the new game made from Rolito (who is influenced by Michael Gagnes work) Patapon. To make my point even clearer, Madam Serapi has CREATED the way to produced family animation for the next 25 years, just FOLLOW the steps SHE has done for this movie, and you will find respect not only with US, the jaded- but with the Generic Hanna Montana family etc- but John K hasnt done such work and may never be able to because he has never faced such issues or pushes them aside because hes a MANs MAN!, and hes becoming increasingly jealous.
As a man, I dont know what the heck he is. It might be better that way- because I dont know and dont want to know. But what I can gather? Hes bi- hes doing Katie Rice (PLEASE, shes good, but as GREAT as you say- YOURE DOING HER NOM NOM NOM) and he so wants to be such a man, a man that says what he wants and how have you that he might have some HATRED of femininity, that he might have dabbled in homosexuality during his early years.
But he shows such an ego, an ego represented by his upbringing, his rise to fame and so on- that every thing he says is Gospel. He is nothing more than a priest, trying to use very subtitle racial and class overtones (From the Ripping Friends and the like) to prove his point. This is the reasons, that his work will always feel incomplete and inconsequential in the whole metinoa of animation. Kishimoto, Oda, and Kubo suffer the same problems in different ways, but that whole other topic.
