Soon, she said, she began receiving boxes of toys and art supplies from 39-year-old Kricfalusi, better known as John K. “I had built up these characters and this mythos of Ren & Stimpy in my head,” Byrd, now 37, told BuzzFeed News. ![]() John Kricfalusi’s effusive letter, Byrd said, seemed like the first step toward her dream. It was 1994, and the 13-year-old had sent the creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show a video of herself talking about her drawings and the animation career she envisioned she thought if she got the attention of the studio behind the hit Nickelodeon show, she might get a job there someday. Robyn Byrd thought her plan was working when the letter from her hero arrived in the mail.
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