Ronnie Mcnutt is the artist behind many of your favorite childhood memories.
Ronnie was born in Hollywood, CA in the 1940’s and grew up in the “Little Rascals” era of filmmaking. He studied art in high school and soon after, began his career as a professional artist in the early 1960s.
Between 1962 and 1964, Ronnie drew cartoons for Disney’s Stop Motion animation division. In 1965 he was hired by Hanna-Barbera to work on their show “The Smurfs”.
Ronnie served as an animator on many other projects before taking the next step into teaching animation at California State University Long Beach.
In the 1970s, he was often called upon to teach at any available opportunity. While teaching, Ronnie developed a new way of looking at drawing that is becoming increasingly popular today.
As an educator, Ronnie has created text-based lessons for students and teachers alike. He began publishing books in the late 1980s about drawing techniques and learning art in class. In addition to his published books, there are over 2,000 video tapes for sale on his website: www.ronnietheanimator.com .
His most recent books include The Ron Mcnutt Drawing and Drawing From Memory, plus DVD The Learning In Class Series.
Ronnie’s career has spanned three decades. The public started to take notice of his work in the late 1960s. After being published in a variety of magazines, he was asked to appear on national television programs in the early 1970s. He continued to publish his work throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s.
In addition to being an author, Ronnie is an accomplished singer.
His songs have been used as jingles on television shows such as “Hee-Haw”, “The Tonight Show”, “Solid Gold”, and dozens of others. In 1987, he released his first album and since then has released three additional CDs.
Ronnie Mcnutt is the author of:
All About Drawing : A Beginners Guide to Drawing Techniques (Paperback)
How To Draw : Surrealism, Expressionism – Perspective and Design (text book)
The Learning In Class Series: 2 books, 1 DVD-set & 2 Playable CD’s
Drawing From Memory : Teaching Yourself How to Draw with Pictures (text book)
Drawing From Memory : Learning To Draw in the Real World with Pictures (text book)
How To Learn Drawing : Real World. Real Drawing (text book)
Drawing From Memory : Learning to Draw with Pictures (DVD-set)
Ronnie Mcnutt is an “Illustrator” who has illustrated over 100 children’s books in the past 20 years.
His drawings have appeared in media worldwide including: “Famous Monsters of Filmland”, “Cavalier”, the cover of “Cavalier” magazine, the cover of the book “Playgirl”, and countless other publications.
Ronnie Mcnutt is a professional musician who has recorded and released 5 albums:
Music From The Motion Picture “The Great American Cowboy” (single)
Ronnie Mcnutt’s Christmas Album, Volume I & II (double album)
American Dreams (single, featuring the hit song “Moonlight Pie”)
American Dreams – A Musical Journey (double, 2nd album)
Ronnie Mcnutt And Friends – Live At The Green Parrot 1986 (4-track mp3 download album)
Three weeks ago, Josh Steen watched his close friend Ronnie McNutt kill himself live on Facebook.Not long after that, Ronnie McNutt appeared in the mind of his friend and roommate Josh Steen as if he was still alive. Now he was lost in a junkyard until a man named Tony came along and saved him.
The two men are now living together, but soon Josh will have to leave the mysterious junkyard where they found the old farm house and go back to his wife and daughter.
Josh Steen has been writing every day in a personal journal, because his friend Ronnie McNutt is telling him a story about their lives. “It’s a really great story,” Josh says.
“I’m really looking forward to getting back to normal,” he adds. “It’s been amazing, it’s the best vacation I ever had.”
And now that Tommy is starting the process of putting some new memories into everyone at the junkyard, Josh will be waiting for the old memories to come back.
False’ back story
The story of Ronnie McNutt appeared on the Internet in 1996 and gained a lot of attention. In the story Ronnie disappeared at night when his girlfriend was being murdered in his house by a man named Tony. The next day everyone thought that Ronnie had been killed, but it was decided that he was just missing and then later found alive. It soon became a mystery which had many people wondering where Ronnnie went from there. The story then faded away and was not heard until Josh Steen was writing his journal.
After reading the journal and becoming fascinated by the story he began to research it, and discovered that Ronnie McNutt died September 8, 1994. He also discovered that Ronnie had no history of ever being the missing person they were looking for, but found going through some old newspapers did reveal something and from there he decided to post on a forum about his findings. The community decided to investigate the story more and ended up finding much more information than first suspected.
Bot campaign
Regardless of the background, Mr Steen is outraged that the video is still online.
He believes bots are spreading the clips.
Facebook has previously discussed the use of automated software to share misinformation and make certain posts go viral for political ends.
“I watched it in real time. We’d report an account and then it created another account. We saw the exact same accounts post the exact same message over and over and over,” he said
Claire Wardle, an expert on disinformation with First Draft News, suggested two possible explanations.
“Graphic content that makes people feel upset and fearful can by used by those trying to destabilize populations to unsettle people. Or it could be to test how effective the platforms are at taking this type of content down.”
That happened with the Christchurch shootings, she said, where copies of the video spread at an incredible rate.
“The idea was they did this so they would know how to attack the platform at a later date,” she said.
Facebook declined to answer a question about the use of bots in this case.
In a statement the firm said: “We removed the original video from Facebook last month on the day it was streamed and have used automation technology to remove copies and uploads since that time.
“We are reviewing how we could have taken down the live-stream faster. Our thoughts remain with Ronnie’s family and friends during this difficult time.
Ability to care’
Mr Steen has learned a few other things about how the internet works in recent weeks.
“YouTube didn’t have any idea that if you misspelled Ronnie’s name then the algorithm wouldn’t spot it. We found thousands of instances of the video where people had done this.”
He also came across:
- fake profiles featuring Mr McNutt’s image on Instagram, seemingly set up by trolls intent on luring people in to see images of his death
- clips of the suicide on YouTube next to advertisements
- a video on YouTube showing the suicide with more than 500,000 views
- reports of the clip still circulating on TikTok
CONCLUSION-
Inside the Mystery of Ronnie’s Real Life” is now available. A riveting account of the mystery surrounding who, what, and where Ron McNutt really was.
Ronnie had many friends who were shocked to learn that he killed himself in May 1994. Most people were even unaware that he died until after his friend Josh discovered his death by searching for him online.
