History Creator / RalphBakshi

* ''Short Thoughts'' (TBA): His latest project, which are three animated shorts, two of which are follow ups to ''Wizards'' and ''Coonskin'' respectively, with the third one being a surprise.

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* {{Picaresque}}: His earlier work in particular owes much to this form of storytelling, with its satirical content, roguish protagonists with stop just short of true criminality and shaggy, episodic plot structure.

* ''Anime/EighthMan'' (1963, Animated the intro for the American version)

The book ''Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi'' provides much information on the life, influences and work. His next work, ''WesternAnimation/TheLastDaysOfConeyIsland'', lingered in DevelopmentHell for years, until he [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ralphbakshi/last-days-of-coney-island-0?ref=recently_launched started a Kickstarter campaign]] to fund it, and, as of March 1, 2013, successfully made its goal. It was released on Website/{{Vimeo}} in late 2015 and Website/YouTube in 2016.

-->-- '''Ralph Bakshi'''

Nowadays, Ralph Bakshi may be best remembered for his work on a film adaptation of Creator/RobertCrumb's risqué underground comic strip ''ComicBook/FritzTheCat'', which became [[WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat the first American cartoon to be rated X by the MPAA]], much to Bakshi's chagrin. He worked for the [[TheEighties 1980s]] revival of the classic "Franchise/{{Superman}} [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] MickeyMouse" cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'', which was later canned for excessive {{demographically inappropriate humour}} (one of which was a scene of alleged cocaine use that freaked out the MoralGuardians). Despite the content and censor interference, the show was extremely influential on pretty much every animated series that followed it over the next decade, specifically ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''.

* FurryDenial: Bakshi's reasoning for why the anthropomorphic characters in his films never act like animals is that it would ruin what he was trying to create, which was a more realistic and mature form of animation.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLastDaysOfConeyIsland'' (2015): Was in DevelopmentHell for years, but Bakshi has now crowdfunded it via a successful [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ralphbakshi/last-days-of-coney-island-0?ref=recently_launched Kickstarter campaign.]] It was released on Vimeo on Demand on October 29, 2015, just in time for Bakshi's 77th birthday. It was released onto Youtube for free by Ralph almost a year later.

* MoralDissonance: ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'' has WhatMeasureIsANonCute enforced by [[DesignatedHero Designated Heroes]] who think ScienceIsBad and yet aren't afraid to [[spoiler:[[HypocriticalHumor shoot the villain]].]] Actually, Bakshi has stated that the message behind ''Wizards'' isn't that ScienceIsBad, it's that propaganda corrupts. Note that this is a common theme in Bakshi's work.

Ralph Bakshi (pronounced Back-Shee, ''not'' Bahk-shee) was born in Haifa, Israel (then part of the British Mandatory Palestine) to a Krymchak Jewish family on October 29, 1938. When he was one year old, he traveled with his family to America and settled in Brownsville, Brooklyn--a seedy lower-income community that became the inspiration for the [[DarkerAndEdgier dark and gritty]] urban setting of many of his cartoons. UsefulNotes/WorldWarII was about to break out; in fact, when traveling past the Mediterranean, the ship on which the Bakshis were sailing was boarded by Nazi troopers, but the ship's American affiliations prevented the incident from becoming hostile.

* MoralDissonance: ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'' has WhatMeasureIsANonCute enforced by [[DesignatedHero Designated Heroes]] who think ScienceIsBad and yet aren't afraid to [[spoiler:[[HypocriticalHumor shoot the villain]].]] Actually, Bakshi has stated that the message behind ''Wizards'' isn't that ScienceIsBad, it's that propaganda is bad. Note that this is a common theme in Bakshi's work.

Nowadays, Ralph Bakshi may be best remembered for his work on a film adaptation of Creator/RobertCrumb's risqué underground comic strip ''ComicBook/FritzTheCat'', which became [[WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat the first American cartoon to be rated X by the MPAA]], much to Bakshi's chagrin. He worked for the [[TheEighties 1980s]] revival of the classic "Franchise/{{Superman}} [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] MickeyMouse" cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'', which was later canned for excessive {{demographicaly inappropriate humour}} (one of which was a scene of alleged cocaine use that freaked out the MoralGuardians). Despite the content and censor interference, the show was extremely influential on pretty much every animated series that followed it over the next decade, specifically ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''.

Ralph Bakshi (pronounced Back-Shee, ''not'' Bahk-shee) was born in Haifa, Israel (then part of the British Mandatory Palestine) to a Krymchak Jewish family on October 29, 1938. When he was one year old, he traveled with his family to America and settled in Brownsville, New York, the seedy lower-income community that became the inspiration for the [[DarkerAndEdgier dark and gritty]] urban setting of many of his cartoons. UsefulNotes/WorldWarII was about to break out; in fact, when traveling past the Mediterranean, the ship on which the Bakshis were sailing was boarded by Nazi troopers, but the ship's American affiliations prevented the incident from becoming hostile.