SC ENTERTAINMENT
Is based in Calgary Alberta Canada. However it's members are spread out over the world.
Founded in 1983 by Blaise Kolodychuk and Terry Ramsay as a name for their 'comic company.' By the next year, 1984 sc was also releasing music, and in 1986 the circle was complete and SC Films was born. Throughout the years there have been probably over a hundred different people who have been involved in the creation of different artistic things under the name SC. From artists to musicians.. actors and everyone involved behind the scenes. SC Entertainment is now basically the name behind all of the various creations of Blaise Kolodychuk, as well as his collaborations with others such as Terry Ramsay, Elaine Boyling, Scott Johns, and Paul Whittington.
SC Entertainment is dedicated to the creation of stuff.. and having it easily available to anyone that wants it, with only the hope that you will spread the word. The personal philosophies behind the creations of many of Blaise Kolodychuk's art can be found at the Fukachuk Egg Machine web site.
This web site is meant to be a home base for everything that happens, and is updated continually to reflect what is being thought about, created, or ready for you to see... so please come back often.. and tell your friends that there still is people out there who make things just because they want to.. and because they really have no choice..
WHO'S WHO
Blaise Kolodychuk & Terry Ramsay
The founders of Super Cool Comics way back in 1983. Blaise and Terry are the driving force behind everything that happens in the SC Universe. Terry Ramsay is the creator of such amazing heroes as Captain Armstrong, Exxon, Graviton, and Iron Can... While Blaise created such beasts as Space Cow, Stensor, Dorriss Doom, and the Giant Awesome Killer Beaver. They have made music together in the bands Electric Oinks, Dads With No Face, Die Spinne, Hypnotic Session and The Bloody Somethings. Terry is also the man behind Leroy Dyes and Gorgo X 2 with Paul. Blaise has also been in Original Deficiency, as well as creating the band fukachuk egg machine 10 years ago. He has also made music with Elaine under the names fukachuk pandora machine and Death Ray Gun. Between the two of the they have written hundred and hundreds of songs over the years. They have made numerous films together, including the Bo-Bo series from 1992 - 2000. And have played the characters of Beefart and Cheenkaw in seven different feature films.
Scott Johns
Scott Johns joined SC in 1994 when he was forced to be a part of the band Dads With No Face. He has since gone on to play music in the bands Die Spinne, Smoth, and The Bloody Somethings, as well as the band Mannequin Depressives. He has been killed in many SC films and played a lead role as 'Sid' in Cindy Mae and the Collar of Doom. Scott has also made some short art films and the humanity of fire series with Paul Whittington. Scott still to this day brings a technical understanding of sound and music equipment to SC Entertainment.. and does his best to make Blaise, Terry and himself sound as good as he can.
Paul Whittington
Paul became a part of SC Entertainment in about 1991 when he sang a few songs on the EO album '12'. Over the next ten years He contributed in huge amounts to the plight of SC Films and helped to make all of the Bo-Bo movies and also played the hero 'Rolf Tompson' aside from Bo-Bo he made quite a few short films, including the elegance of bathing, the doctrine of vitality, buddy's lifesigns and more. Paul was also the technical advisor for dads with no face and die spinne.. what that means is he set up the lights for our shows.. and built lights.. and exciting switch boxes from scratch. He would also come out from behind the curtain from time to time and sing a few songs with the band. In 2001 Paul moved to Victoria and has since made some rather astonishing animated films.
Elaine Boyling
Elaine has been a part of SC since about 1999 when her and Blaise first met on the internet. She has continually made music by herself and with Blaise in the band Death Ray Gun, and previously in fukachuk Pandora Machine. Elaine has written even more songs than Blaise and Terry combined, and has a passion for music beyond anything you have ever seen. She has done voice work in several SC animations such as Space Cow, Cindy Mae & The Collar of Doom, as well as the upcoming Death Ray Gun Animated Film. And has appeared in Space Station Zero as Captain Elaine. She Co-Wrote the script for A Zebra for Sally and continues to write more exciting stories for SC Films. In July of 2008 her and Blaise performed a live Death Ray Gun show for the first time.. it was very exciting.
Some past things that have been written about the history of SC Entertainment
2007
It was recently August 27th, and that day of course marks SC Entertainment's 24th anniversary. And as always around this time of year I get stupid and sentimental about this thing I call SC and I babble on and on about it in bizarre letters and e-mails... this year is no different.. I apologize ahead of time.
SC Entertainment was created a long long time ago.. and has done so many things it is really almost embarrassing, if everything about it wasn't so totally cool. Me and Terry came up with the name while figuring out what to call our comic group.. something to put in the corner of the books we made.. something like marvel or DC... So we came up with Super Cool comics Group.. way back in 1983. It was the idea of some children.. the only difference is that I am in my 30's now and basically nothing at all has changed. The idea behind it has always been the same... to take what ever you got, and make something out of it. SC is possibly the most punk rock entity that has ever existed.. and it won't stop being like that... i'll be sitting here in another 25 years saying the same thing and doing the same thing over and over. We take everything that is shit and celebrate it to the point of it being something we can't live without. We never had anything more than a pad of paper and a pencil we stole from school when we started... and we made up so many stories that it would knock your socks off... and a year later when SC Music debut I didn't have much less than I do now... recording on an old ghetto blaster and using broken old instruments and things we made.. All for what? Just to make it.. turning nothing in to something.. thats what it's all about. And even now.. I gave up a chance to get extra funding for the new film we are making on account of principle. I don't want anything silly like money to stop me from being as creative as I possibly can be... and I didn't want to have to wait to answer to anyone else but myself... the ideas are here, now... not for some future date somewhere after my immediate passion has since gone away. I have come to the conclusion that I will quite probably never make and money from the things I do.. and that's fine.. if money was ever a reason to do something like this there would be something terribly flawed in my brain space.. My point is that this is all good. And I wouldn't want it any other way. Over the years SC has seen so many things happen... and life has changed so much in the world... I remember making piles of tapes for people using a double cassette tape to tape ghetto blaster... making photo copies at the drug store late at night.. The whole idea of this e-mail and website... that was a pile of stamps and a book with people's addresses that I acquired from various places... writing things exactly like this and typing them out on a real typewriter.. mailing things out... instead of free downloads, I would send free cassette tapes... Going through the hell of trying to figure out how to make packaging for VHS tapes... me and Paul running around the whole city trying to find VHS boxes with the sleeve so you could put a photocopied cover in there... and even before all that, just making flyers and handing them out at school... trying to get people to see me and terry playing in his garage.. now it's this... e-mail.. websites.. streaming videos and music.. and oh my god there is so much I want to share with you and everyone.. and to so many people they just see it as shit.. there's that guy who covers his basement in tin foil and makes his buddy hide under a desk to puppeteer a weird stuffed thing he made with a mexican accent, or something... why the hell would you want to see that when you could see some amazing CGI aliens and big production shows who don't get the actors, and the director's 11 year old kid to be camera operator... and the honest truth is, you should watch the shit instead. You watch that and you are watching something that was loved... something that wasn't made with money so much as it was made with hard work and a passion beyond anything that could be considered healthy... SC Entertainment has come such a long way by staying exactly where we were 24 years ago when me and Terry were little kids excited about making up superheros and weird stories about cats and stuff... Along the way we have found a few people who understand.. people like Elaine.. and Paul.. I think the real thing is, that we would do this for the rest of our lives, and sacrifice absolutely everything to make these bizarre dreams become reality, even if no one would ever see it ever... thankfully you don't have to miss out, and you can be a part of this too. One day we will live in a world where people are most focused on creation and art rather than power and money.. and they will look back at me and all these other punk rock kids who didn't care about the system as much as they cared about just getting things made and they will see that we were right all along. Basically what I am saying is that the future of the human race depends on me making space stations in my basement, and horror movies with nothing but corn syrup, food colouring and some people who just want to spend their weekend covered in blood and getting yelled at by me.
2005
Today, August 27th 2005, is the day that SC Entertainment turns 22 years old. 22 is pretty freaking old if you ask me. But it is all still very worth it. SC has changed considerably over the years. When it started in 1983 it was just a name that me and Terry used on the front of the comic books we made, we came up with the name together, super cool comics. And it wasn’t until a year later that it became the abbreviation SC. SC Music was put on the side of the first Electric Oinks tape that me and my friend Clayton made, and then it wasn’t until a very strange summer in 1987 when SC Films was created. The first film ever made was the adventures of Brenda it was half stop motion and half puppet.. and very odd.. and now lost forever. SC in it’s prime was composed of many, many people all doing brilliant things under the name. We have all made music, and written comics, and magazines, and made movies and done a million different things over the years… SC is something to be proud of. These days all the main people involved, such as me, Terry, Paul, and Scott are mostly off doing our own things. Paul has been very successful under the name Carrot Kid Creations, and continues to amaze everyone who gets a chance to see his work. Scott is off in BC doing who knows what.. but I’m sure it is amazing. And Terry.. well Terry still lives down the street from me, and we still get as excited as we did 22 years ago about making something new. It is mostly just excitement and not as much gets done these days. It is hard sometimes to get the team together when we are all ‘adults’ and we have things to worry about like paying rent and feeding the kids. I suppose that’s why SC is mostly just me now… I make most everything on my own, mostly because it is easier to get me to do what I want, than it is to get anyone else to help. I know this last year I have been trying to do too much. At least in the music area. I think I have released 3 different fukachuk egg machine records, plus everything I have done with Elaine. I don’t know if I am just scared of running out of time before I get to say everything I want to or what, but even I think I have done too much. And on top of it, it is all very weird and it would take another five years just to try to explain exactly what it is I am trying to say with my music. Perhaps I have really just lost my mind. But probably not. At any rate, SC has always been about creativity, and trying to give people a good time, and I think we are still doing that.. perhaps not the same as it was in the early 90’s when it was all about the show. Even though those were some of the best times in my life, I don’t think anyone could do that forever. Anyway, the message is different now… and also exactly the same.
1999
Well as I write this it is the end of the day on Aug. 27th 1999. It has been exactly 16 years since SC first found a name for the cult activities which we participate in. 16 years is a long fucking time to go basically no where. But still we pump out the good times that at most 50 or 60 people know about. Rather depressing … makes me almost want to give up. I haven't had an order since probably like January, and that was probably just more sympathy from our number one customer Al. Why is it no one has really taken an interest in us in 16 years? What the hell are we doing wrong? People used to love us… way back between 1993 and 1995. People really liked the stuff we were doing. We didn't make any money mind you.. but there is more to life than money. People came out week after week to see dads with no face in all their shining glory. (Plus I got to dress in women's clothes a lot more!) Sure we don't play live music as much.. but even when we do, it is a crazy chore just to get people to show up! Like they are doing US a favor or something. We are here for you, we thrive on giving you pleasure, and letting you join in on the emotion of what it is we do. However, 16 years is a long time.. in a few weeks I will be 24 years old. I have two kids, Terry has a child… (kinda..) And it is hard for us to party crazy like we could when we were young. But the music is still there, we both still have the passion, and if any of you actually decided to scrape the five bucks together and get one of our tapes, you would see that we still got it. I haven't received a single order for Leroy goes to hell… I think it is one of the best albums SC MUSIC has ever produced… and you have all missed out. My solo albums, the three fukachuk egg machines, every bit of who I am is in those, yet the only people who have them are my close friends whom I have forcibly pushed them upon. I am so incredibly proud of what I did on the new die spinne album, yet chances are you won't have the time to actually send me an order. It's fucking sad how me and Terry's dream 16 years ago is going to waste. Is five bucks too much? What I am saying is, we do it for you… not for the money. We do it because we love you all… We don't have lavish dreams of rock stardom or anything, we are simply artists who need to be seen and heard. SC is a religion, like any other. And we live by it, and we will die by it. There is nothing we can do to stop our selves from doing what we do… we would do it if there was no chance of any one EVER hearing it. But we would like you to. How many of you people who receive this letter have never even heard what we do? Well, most of it sounds like shit… but there is still the raw passion behind that steaming pile of feces. And I am confident enough to say every thing that has been done since 1997 DOES sound good. So please try us out… we are all that embody what is good about art and music. And happy 16 to my friend SC. For you have given me every dream I have.
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