Ralph Bakshi

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Couple of notes:

Bakshi did start at Terrytoons. He was an inker and managed to work his way up to animator then director. He created the Mighty Heroes show for CBS then migrated to Paramount's animation studio (which like Terrytoons was based in New Rochelle, N.Y.).

Krantz and Grantray-Lawrence were the two studios that worked on the 1967 Spiderman cartoon (which aired on ABC), and Bakshi was at the Krantz studio (which did Rocket Robin Hood).

Bakshi got rave notices in 1987 when he did Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures for CBS. He wanted to do cartoons the old-fashioned way--driven by the artists, not writers by network committee--and it sprung a chap named John Kricfalusi who went on to greater notoriety with Ren & Stimpy.