Mike Judge

coolo interview of animation hero, Mike Judge, at the Onion site

[quote]Animator Mike Judge turns up in odd places—as the voice of Kenny in the South Park feature film, in a recurring cameo in the Spy Kids movies, as a guest on Frasier. But first and foremost, he's known for his multiple roles on two animated sitcoms he created and produced: Beavis And Butt-Head and King Of The Hill. Judge started out as a solo animator, independently creating a handful of shorts about creepy, mentally disabled individuals like "Inbred Jed" and Milton of "Office Space" fame. MTV offered him an animated series based on the chuckling nitwits from his "Frog Baseball" short, and Beavis And Butt-Head was born.

Judge's first series was popular but divisive, a common touchstone for parents, educators, and politicians bemoaning television's growing stupidity; following complaints from animal-rights groups and a controversy over a 5-year-old child who supposedly watched the show before setting the fire that killed his 2-year-old sister, MTV began editing old episodes, censoring new ones, and running disclaimers before every installment. Nevertheless, Beavis And Butt-Head ran for four years, becoming MTV's most popular program and spawning a feature-film spin-off.

In 1997, Beavis And Butt-Head ended and Judge launched his new project, King Of The Hill, which was as appealingly smart as Beavis And Butt-Head was appealingly stupid. Seven years later, the show about a conservative Texas patriarch and his friends and family still airs on Fox, with Judge voicing the lead role and several others. In the interim, Judge has written and directed the 1999 feature film Office Space, launched the touring anthology The Animation Show, and begun work on a new movie. The Onion A.V. Club recently spoke to Judge about his origins in animation, his enduring love of Beavis And Butt-Head, and why Futurama fans are mad about his next project.[/quote]
http://www.theonionavclub.com/feature/index.php?issue=4025