Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story

This series oozes neon dirt about the reckless Lisa Frank empire and the chaos it created for employees, licensing partners, and Kickstarter-based funders.

Frank declined to participate in the series. Both her absence and the victims' stories speak volumes about the sky-high level of dysfunction she and her husband perpetrated.

As a creative who's worked for high-profile companies - two of which were husband-wife owned and operated - I believe the words of former Lisa Frank staff.

Here's my take on the documentary's triad of doom:

Lisa Frank: A talented, selfish, greedy, ineffectual, litigious, dishonest, out-of-touch person and, more recently, straight-up plagiarist.

The Ex-Husband: An abusive, greedy, and hopped-up egomaniac and megalomaniac who seems to have found Jesus but pukes shade and foul language on all involved.

The HR Lady: Most of us know the type - you can't trust her any farther than you can throw her.

I feel horrible for the children and trusting souls who were/are caught in their crosshairs.

This new docuseries is on prime and it talks about the rise and downfall of Lisa Frank. Now if you are like me, the 90's was the greatest! (No cap) But when it came to Lisa Frank products. Everyyy, I mean every girl had something from that line. From the stickers, to the trapper keepers, pencils and everything else in between. Just the psychedelic illustrations that would draw your attention each time you walk down the school aisle. You instantly knew it was Lisa Frank.

Now you guys know I love me a goood documentary. This one here I'm not trying to ruin anyone's childhood memory of what the Lisa Frank brand exhibited to them. But facts or facts and although Lisa Frank is in fact a real person, and not a pseudonym for something else. She was not the creator of her brand. Her ex husband James Green was the mastermind behind the logo and drawings and ultimately the one who ran the company after she had kids and stayed home to care for them. With the help of an amazing set of graphic designers, illustrators and other behind the scenes people. Lisa Frank started a business that ultimately seemed very uplifting and inspiring to those around her. Appealing to the young childhood of girls who loved everything bright, and colorful.

But with every business comes disappointments. And not everything is rainbows and unicorns. As you get farther in this docuseries you get several different accounts from everyone who worked for Lisa Frank and those who tried to rebuild her up. There is a lot of greed, defamation and legal issues. This documentary like any other was an absolute eye opener to something so nostalgic. If you want something interesting to watch. Take a look at Primes new documentary "Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story"

And I've seen it before. He starts the interview and says he didn't really love Lisa. He didn't want kids. He wasn't ever there, at home, he was a perfectionist, he wasn't angry as he pounds the table. He disproves everything he is saying in his own interviews. He LOVED the kids, but he didn't want them and was literally in his own words a weekend dad. He treated his employees and his wife like sheet, like he didn't care about their lives or even their health, but Lisa is the horrible person? No effing way. This documentary shows who is the horrible person by his own words. And the people who are horrible can't bear to take responsibility and say "I was a bad husband, a bad manager and a bad father" because he's just too self absorbed.

This is a sad tale, series. But it's nice to see people expose themselves and you see exactly what happened by who that person is today. No one in this documentary speaks badly of Lisa Frank except her ex husband and her clearly jaded oldest son who didn't want to grow up to be his own person, he, like Obama wrote, wanted to live the dreams of his father, who had the opportunity but was never there for him. Couldn't even eat DINNER with them.

Sad.

When my kids didn't want to go to their father's house, I made them go. I never talked bad about their father in front of them, EVER. What a sheet human being James Green is. So self absorbed everything aroud him has to be green. So self obsessed even his SON has to have green all around him. It's so horrible to have people so ungrateful they can't talk to their parents. You did that James, because you are a horrible person.

I was a parent when Lisa Frank products became so popular, so I was not really emotionally invested in any of this. It's sad to know that the person who was behind all of the optimistic cheerful artwork was giving her employees such a hard time. I hate that we didn't get her side of the story.

The employees had an equally hard time with James. Their descriptions of him made him sound like a total narcissist. His interviews confirm that 100%. And his poor son seems completely brainwashed. I suppose when you have two difficult parents you just have to choose the lesser of the two evils.

The best part of the whole documentary is how they color coordinate all of the clothing and backgrounds for each person interviewed. I'm not sure how all that was arranged, but I loved it!!

Although she's obviously a horrible person, I'm not so sure about the motives behind making this documentary and that they are not horrible as well. Seems like a subversive advertisement in favor of Lisa Frank. Because it is Lisa Frank branding plastered all over almost four hours of (rather boring documentary)

Hopefully, some of the people that she s'd over are going to have their day of justice, especially Amina Mucciolo, who was obviously ripped off. Honestly, the only thing I took away from this is that Lisa Frank is a horrible exceedingly greedy person who loves wealth instead of her family. She is failing and fading, hopefully so.