Chicago Report

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The Chicago show was fun.

Lots of people showed up for my show Friday night and Bill's on Saturday night.

FRIDAY NIGHT - my crap

I showed a bunch of my rarer cartoons. Naked Beach Frenzy as usual won over the laps of all the men in the audience. I ended the show with 'WHAT PEE BONERS ARE FOR" for the girls, and then " THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE" which always gets huge laughs and groans of horror.

BILL PLYMPTON

Bill showed Hair High and a new film that killed me, called Shuteye Hotel.
It was brilliant and a new style for him. It was film noir and filled with amazing drawings, animation, angles, cutting and atmosphere. He made me promise not to show clips because it's up for an academy award. I hope it wins!

SATURDAY MATINEE

The Saturday Matinee had less kids than adults! But I showed a lot of classic cartoons and a 3 Stooges on the big screen and they all looked amazing! That is the way to see cartoons. They take on a whole new dimension.

After the show I asked the kids what cartoons they liked most, and one tiny little girl said "I like the one....with... the Bugs Bunny and the turtle."

That was my favorite too. Holy crap! Seeing Tortoise Wins By A Hair on the big screen was a revelation. This cartoon is a complete phenomenon of humans at the height of their abilities and magic. The direction is masterful. There are so many things happening sat lightning speed and they are all totally controlled and choreographed. Scribner and McKimson seem to be having a contest to see who is the greatest genius in animation history. This is absolutely one of the best cartoons made in history-certainly the best Bugs Bunny film.

I'm gonna do a post later about the scene where Bugs runs into the stone wall and the other rabbits attach him.

"ORIGINAL" REN AND STIMPY

On a sobering note, I watched "Nurse Stimpy" on the huge screen too. Yikes!!! No wonder I didn't put my name on it. It's so ugly! My Lord.... I can't believe this show ever caught on. (I remember being so shocked by how primitive the film looked that we spent extra time on the soundtrack to try to tell the story through the music.)

Luckily we improved a few months later and made Space Madness and Stimpy's Invention which looked quite a bit better in Chicago, but still suffered by comparison with the lush and wonderful fully animated classic cartoons in the show.

After each show, Bill and I did drawings for fans. Here are some. If you were at the show too and have a drawing, put a link in the comments!

Bill Plympton and me in Chicago May 25 and 26

hey if you live in Chicago (or are visiting) this weekend, come and meet me and the amazing Bill Plympton for some cartoon fun!

Bill's gonna run his hilarious feature, Hair High on Saturday night - 8 PM.
http://www.hairhigh.com/index_flash.html


and I will run a bunch of rare short stuff Friday night - 8 PM...



and a kiddie Matinee on Saturday afternoon at 1 PM. (Those cartoons are kid-safe!)

Bill and John Show Myspace Page

http://www.thejohnandbillshow.com/tix.html


It's playing at the historic and beautiful high class fancy-pants Portage:
http://www.portagetheater.org/

There's a kiddie matinee on Saturday too!

If you want an idea of how much fun this will be, read the comments from the San Francisco show last year:

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/07/john-k-saves-san-francisco.html#comments

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/07/fans-look-what-happened-in-san.html

Fans! Look what happened in San Francisco

Diana and Lauren came to the Cartoon Art Museum and got this:

http://chelonianrevolution.blogspot.com/


Sydnie and Ally were first in line at the Kiddie matinee!
See their prizes.http://mikehershrabidanimal.blogspot.com/

Here's a review of the show!
Candice Ate My Shit Up!
Go say hi to her and thank her for the review!
She's one of the good ones.
So are her pals.

Hey folks.

Thanks for coming to all the shows over the weekend.

It was a lot of fun!

Hey why don't you tell me what cartoon bits or stories you liked best?

I was happy to see people laughing so hard at the damn Ripping Friends! The drawings in those cartoons sometimes make me cringe, but I guess the jokes were working.

The Kiddie Matinee was fun too. I drew all the boys and girls.

here's Max:

http://www.maxsplayhouse.com/

At the Cartoon Museum, I didn't really know what I was supposed to do, but it was filled with animators, animation students and teachers who prompted me into a lecture about the history of cartoons and who kept them cartoony and why they stopped being cartoony. People seemed very receptive and lined up after to get drawings and take photos. It's nice to see young cartoonists eager to know their roots!

If you haven't already been to the Cartoon Museum, get your ass over there to see some really cool comic stip, comic book and animated cartoon art from many eras and in many styles!

http://www.cartoonart.org/

If you DO live in SF, the Castro people asked me to come back to host a 3 Stooges festival! Would you like that? Of course you would!

Or how about some nights of old time movie theatre experience with:
classic cartoon short (Bugs, Daffy or Popeye, etc.)
comedy short (3 Stooges)
a Ren and Stimpy with references to the classic films being shown (Space Madness or Stimpy's Invention, or Altruists...)
a B movie (The Raven with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff)
an A movie (Kirk Douglas in Detective Story)

?? Are you coming to that super fun??

If you don't live in San Francisco but want some of this action, someone set up some shows in your home town for some cartoon fun and film and cartoon history.

Your best friend,

John

JOHN K. SAVES SAN FRANCISCO!

When:
Friday, July 28th - adult show at 8pm
Saturday, July 29th - kids show at 2pm
Saturday, July 29th - adult show at 7pm

Where:
The Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street @ Market St.
San Francisco

Why:
John Kricfalusi is bringing armloads of cartoon fun to cover the tastes of every living being in San Francisco.

BUY TICKETS TO THE CASTRO SHOW HERE!



Adult Program: Rare, unseen and banned cartoons for adults highlighting each of the 7 deadly sins! John K. introduces each cartoon and confesses the sin that inspired it. At the end of the program, he will invite certain lucky fans from the audience to join him in sin.

Children's Program: Gross but pure and Christian, child-safe matinée of rollicking cartoons for the children and celibate alike.



Both programs will include Ren and Stimpy cartoons, commercials, music videos, clips from The Ripping Friends, The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and surprises!

http://www.thecastrotheatre.com/tickets.html

BUY TICKETS TO THE CASTRO SHOW HERE!

Oh and if you want to bring me to a college or revival theatre somewhere else message me here...

http://www.myspace.com/jkricfalusi