Crumb is very anti-commercialism and totally against "selling out," and I think he felt the film did that to his character. I'm not even sure how he agreed to the film unless it was already part of a contract he was in or something, since he's one that doesn't even like the idea of putting a character on a shirt. I guess that he and Bill Watterson are on the same wavelength when it comes to that stuff? And yeah, it's a very sad documentary, he's a bit messed up but not nearly as much as his brothers.
The artist that worked with Bakshi on Mighty Mouse that later created Ren & Stimpy is John Kricfalusi (he also worked on the 80's version of the Jetsons as well as did some character design work for Galaxy High). I used to love specific episodes of Ren & Stimpy (especially Stimpy's Inventions, one of my favorite shorts of all time) and I'd say it was targeted towards adults way back when it was new to Nickelodeon. The show really suffered when he was fired, but when he returned to the characters how many years later for Spike TV it felt like they died a little.
I once met Bill Kroyer, the director of Ferngully. At the time he was excited about the prospect of using CG as a tool for animating backgrounds and vehicles within a 2D film, but he eventually crossed fully over to CG, working on films like Cats & Dogs and the Garfield movies. Nice guy, but seemed a little bitter about Disney, his former employer (which doesn't seem all that uncommon). Anyway, the reason I bring him up was that he was developing an adult animated feature. Not the explicit kind, but more of an action-adventure thing which he called "Arrow," and if I remember right it was supposed to be rated R. His investors had insisted on seeing a trailer, which is total craziness cuz there was no finished animation. So they had to finalize character designs, come up with scenes to animate, the whole works! I got to see that trailer of the non-existent film and remember it being pretty cool, but this was like . . . 15 years ago, so I don't remember much about it other than the title. I never did hear of "Arrow" again though.
Heh heh, I'd been meaning to bring up Gargoyles but somehow didn't get around to it. It was a great series and I'd love to see Disney tackle something similar again. I'd like to see the rest of it make it to DVD as well but that might even be a further reach. But yeah, I still drool over the possibility of Pirates as an animated series; I also saw that "tooned up" maquette of Jack, as well as some of the cartoony merchandise (like a blanket I bought a few weeks ago, lol). Apparently they had planned on an animated series, but it got scrapped and we were left with nothing but a handful of the toon-stylized merchandise.
Roger Rabbit still remains one of my favorite films of all time, and I love the overall adult tone it had, even when I first watched it as a twelve-year-old. Made a nice balance with the assumptions most people make about toons, but I think my favorite aspect was the interactions between the human world and the toon one. Especially when I was a kid, I always wanted to believe that toons were somehow real, that maybe they were off in a different dimension than us or something.

I got a little obsessed with drawing Jessica Rabbit way back in the day as well, to the point where I think my mom started to worry about me, lol.
Daria was probably aimed more at the teen crowd but I still consider it an adult show due to the situations and type of humor it portrayed. I'd love to see official DVD's released since it's one of my favorite shows of all time, but there's that whole issue of royalties and music.
Oh, Least I Could Do is supposed to made into a TV series! Some shorts are being shown on Youtube (which are surprisingly more explicit and controversial than the actual comic) and I especially like the song about emos.

I haven't heard any info lately about the actually series airing, but last I knew it was gonna be shown in Canada and they hope to find a home for it in the US as well. I wish them luck with that as I'm rather hooked on Rayne, and I totally root for the current artist as I was familiar with his work wayyy back before he was big and was doing a lot of Disney Afternoon fan art.
Um, anyone watch Stan Lee's Stripperella? It was like a cross between The Tick and . . . hmm . . . I'm not sure, lol. I'm not a big fan of Pamela Anderson but I thought her voice was cute and had just the right touch for the role. Of her two designs, I'm not sure which one I liked better; I'm surprised I haven't drawn her yet, lol.
Anyone ever seen any of Zone's animations?

Probably the closest we'll ever get to American hentai for a while, lol; he's made flash games and mini episodes starring popular characters.
slave2moonlight: Thanks for all the comments!

When it comes to advice about making money off your work, I'd suggest offering commission work to start out with, but I see you've already just tapped into that at dA.

For better or for worse, people are more likely to commission your work if you're willing to do adult material, even if it's just a teasing pinup. Well, at least in my experience, but I'm sure other factors have contributed to that in my case, lol. If you're comfortable with working on mature material, there are communities like WWOEC and JAB's that have attracted many artists, and some people actively look into them to set up commissions. Deviant also has their help wanted forum to check out. Other than that, all I can really suggest is to keep working hard and keep your eyes open, and look into more communities to post your art in to hopefully get noticed at, like The Drawing Board. JAB does occasionally look for people to add to his staff, and he'll typically post something in the Classifieds section of his forum when he's looking for something specific. I can't link it here of course, but if you go to his official site you'll be able to find it. I got really lucky in my case, JKR liked my work enough to ask me to partner up with him in a contest, and it went well enough that he wanted to keep me around for other projects, lol.
But yeah, aside from my boyfriend I've got family that would never understand even the more innocent and fully-clothed pin-ups I've done, let alone the stuff I've worked on that's too explicit for even the mature tag at dA, so all my art is done under an alias these days. Heh, go figure. It's just that I've always loved drawing girls, and I suppose I kinda live vicariously through those drawings more than anything else. I wanna learn Flash one of these days as well, but I do have the basics down for animating with ImageReady for simple gifs and stuff. I hoped to work for Disney myself back in the day, but life is a cruel mistress and sorta got in the way of that, and I even stopped drawing altogether for years at a time. My experience at JAB's was good for me though; it got me out of my shell and drawing again and also allowed me to meet a lot of cool artists.
slave2moonlight: Yeah, it'd be cool to talk on AIM whenever you get a chance (and used to the program).

If you're having trouble with it or want to contact me about anything, my current email addy is on my dA page.

I wasn't sure about the PM's, I just know that the feature was disabled to newbies sometime after I joined but Luke handed out the ability as a gift on at least one occasion.
Oh and yeah, phony, overly skinny girls with implants and other fake stuff . . . just ew. I could stand to lose some weight myself but I'd rather be extra curvy than a rail packed with silicone any day, lol.
