Watch out Mitt Romney!!!

'Trickle Dickle Down' - NEW Bakshi Blues political short by the one & only Ralph Bakshi!!!

Spread the word!

I did the art direction on this as well as the Mitt Romney billboard, and co-directed the Start and End title cards w/ Moises Jimenez.

Very proud of it!

-Jeaux

School is IN SESSION!

Click on any pic to make bigger. It's official!

I'm attending the School of Bakshi.

My textbook/HOLY Bible is Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi.

My classes are his films.

I am a devout student of the Bakshi Arts.

Last week, I got one of those "Once in a lifetime" type phone calls.

It was Ralph Bakshi, himself. CALLING. ME. !!!

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Lucky Friday 13th!

Check out my newest Tumblr site dedicated to Ralph: FUCK YEAH RALPH BAKSHI!

"Jeaux I have looked at your illustrations and with out any pandering on my part think its GREAT ORIGINAL PUREST CARTOON DRAWING IVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME IT HARKS BACK TO THE 30s AND FORWARD TO THE FUTURE----its not watered down UPA you’re a real talent and if I can be of any help let me know ralph"

This is the luckiest Friday the 13th I've ever had!

This morning I received a GREAT THE GREATEST email from my cartoon hero, the one and only Ralph Bakshi! Who uses CAPS LOCK LIKE A BOSS!

Wow! It completely made my day and had me grinning ear to ear like a damn goon all day long. I'm going thru a pretty big bad rough patch right now in life, so this note of encouragement from Ralph came at just the right time.

Like a beacon of animated hope.

Thanks Ralph! I sincerely appreciate this more than you'll ever know...

I think I'm gonna get the email hand-stitched and framed!
-Jeaux Janovsky

Ralph Bakshi: Meeting my Cartoon Hero!

Ralph Bakshi, Q+A'ing after a screening of his film Wizards. Drawn by me, signed by Ralph!
Wondercon, 03/17/2012

“When it comes to art, if you question yourself, it could go either way. So don’t question yourself, I’m a great believer in that. All the second-guessing’ll kill you. When you start wondering about what it is that they want to hear, that’ll kill you. As for the vulgarity in Coonskin—the art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart of what they allow to take apart, you’re Disney, you’re doing illustrations, or children’s books.”- Ralph Bakshi, from an interview w/ Metroactive.

There's a saying that goes, "Never meet your heroes". All too often, if you are lucky enough to meet 'em, you'll just be bound for Disappointment Hotel: reservation for one. Sure it's happened to me a few times...

But not in the case of Ralph Bakshi.

I can go on and on about Ralph, his films, how much of an influence he/they have had on me and my own cartooning... but I don't want to bore you. Rather, why don't you check out my various Bakshi inspired blog postings, or read my CNN interview about Ralph? You'll find out how much of a deep and profound impact and inspiration this man, his films, cartoons, paintings, and art has and continues to hold on me for 30 years! I am NOT Kidding.

My beautiful girlfriend, Ava, has a great write up on her blog about our Wondercon 2012 encounter w/ Ralph. You can check that out at her blog.

Ralph was gracious, gentle, hilarious, witty, charming, and well... Ralph!

I felt like I was meeting a no-holds barred Santa Claus. And on my birthday, no less!

Best birthday ever!

It's no secret that one of my ultimate dream goals in life to work & collab w/, or to be mentored by Ralph someday. He's one of the last, true, DIY originals, and it would be an honor!
Hell, I'd even settle for an art studio visit!

Ralph- I'm ready when you are. ;)

Thank you Ralph!
-Jeaux Janovsky

CNN, Ralph Bakshi, and Jeaux Janovsky!!!

http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/21/bakshi-on-todays-cartoons-comics/

Recently, I was interviewed on CNN about my hero Ralph Bakshi, the legend and the man!

Read it, comment, like it, Reblog it, pass it on!

DIY or DIE,
Jeaux

Original Cartoon Heroes: "Bakshi Studies" Behind the Art

For those of you not in the know, I've been working on a dream freelance project w/ Fred Seibert of Frederator on a postcard tribute series, named Original Cartoon Heroes.
Fred & I came up with a list of Animation Legends, and I'm very proud to pay tribute & give homage to these Greats in my style.
Above you will see my studies for Ralph Bakshi. The only one of the list who is still with us, still painting, still drawing, still stirring the Animation stew (and adding a lot of pepper and hot sauce while he's at it!)
Ralph Bakshi is a hero of mine, and I am pleased to say that he's using an early incarnation of my Original Cartoon Heroes tributes as his personal Facebook Avatar still! For that, I am honored beyond belief!
I can't wait to share the new version I've done w/ him!

Thank you Ralph.

Thank you Fred.

Thanks to Cartoons.

-Jeaux Janovsky, a true Original

Social Networking & You... I mean... ME!

I'm a firm believer in the powers of "Social Networking".

There has never been a greater time to get in touch w/ anyone, anywhere in the whole wide world (web). People you admire and look up to are just (seemingly) a click and an email away. I never thought much of it... until today.

For posterity, it's October 31st, 2010.

Come to think of it, the early days of blogging (circa 2004-2005) led me & got me one of the best jobs I ever had(Frederator/NextNewNetworks), connected me w/ some pretty amazing artists and friends (seriously, check out my links!)(wanna be one of them? write me and let me know!), won me a computer, published in comix anthologies & magazines, featured on a comics legend's site, a few art shows, and even got me in touch with some of the current things I am doing now (i.e. freelancing, animation tests, pitching to major companies, etc.)! To name a few.

Okay Internet, you win. Hands down. I think you are pretty cool.

Today the internet got me on the radar of one of my all time heroes, the great Ralph Bakshi. Little did I know, that sending out something as simple as a birthday wish would get little ol' me noticed by Ralph F*ckin' Bakshi!!!

The kind folks who run his site, RalphBakshi dot com, are also in charge of his personal Facebook page. I received these notices this morning, and my eyes almost popped out my skull! Much like in one of Ralph's toons!

Check it:





Dudes (and dudettes), Ralph Bakshi is using MY Bakshi Tribute image as his Profile pic Avatar on Facebook.

Yea, I know.

Awesome, right?

Do you realize what this (temporarily) means?!?! It means I'm associated w/ him! Ralph and his folks like my piece so much that they wanted to use it to represent him (briefly) on Fricking Facebook! Holy F*cking Cow, man!

This is dorky, but to me, this is even bigger than the time my art was featured on Gene Simmons' personal site! Yes, Bakshi is bigger than KISS. I said it!

I have been a BIG Bakshi fan ever since I was a little boy whose mom rented him Fritz the Cat, by accident mind you (she wasn't THAT cool), and seeing that at a young age (5 maybe?) warped my brain! And I sincerely mean that, in the best of ways. So you can imagine... I was freaking out today.

Wow. What a great treat to receive on Halloween!

Thank you Ralph, Victoria, Brother Rabbit & the rest of the crew at RalphBakshi dot com!

Really.

Thank you from the bottom of my cartoon loving heart.

-Jeaux Janovsky

Happy Birthday Ralph!

Happy Birthday Ralph!

Whenever I am down about animation, or about my own animation, I always listen to this man's kernels of wisdom in this Youtube clip.

Here's to many more years Ralph! Thank you for your films!

You are truly a Cartoon Hero!

-Jeaux Janovsky

UPDATE:
My drawing of Ralph got posted on Cartoon Brew by Amid Amidi!

Click HERE to check it out.

Many Thanks Amid!

Pretty cool, eh?

Wait up, IT gets COOLER!

Check it out! Bakshi's daughter Victoria, who also runs Bakshi's site, sent me a pretty sweet email!!!

Hi Jeaux - Bakshi thanks you for your kind words and Happy Birthday message. Keep it Alive!!
Best -
Victoria

Needless to say, I am beyond excited!

Thanks Victoria, Amid, and especially Ralph.

I'll drink a beer in your honor today Ralph. I'm already spending my lunch break eating BBQ (courtesy Cosmic Toast- Thanks guys!) & watching Cool World, so a beer would top it off nicely.
;)


*New New Update: Ralph is using my piece as his Facebook Profile Avatar!!! Really. Read about it HERE.