I don't care for him either, and I laughed along with Julie and Corey Horii and their descriptions of him.
However, Disney fans should know this about the artist...several years ago he was arrested (or at least questioned or issued a citation..) while at Disnelyland for urinating on a statue of Pooh! His explanation was very bizarre...he said that he was engaging in "marking behavior" .... as in marking his territory! I don't know if he is crazy or just gross for urinating in public (not to mention on a beloved Disney character). Anyway, if his art had not already turned me off, this certainly would have! If I can find the news article, I will post a link here.
EDITED TO ADD....
Here is a snip from the LA Time article...
In sworn testimony and interviews with The Times, ...They and others also described incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried and Roy; cursed a former employee’s wife who came to his side when he fell off a barstool; fondled a startled woman’s breasts at a signing party; and urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.
In his letter, Kinkade said the alcohol-related accounts included “exaggerated, and in some cases outright fabricated personal accusations.”
"And then there is Kinkade's proclivity for 'ritual territory marking,' as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.
'This one's for you, Walt,' the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview."
