Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton born April 30 1946 Portland is an American animator director graphic designer cartoonist screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Awardnominated animated short Your Face and his series of shorts Guard Dog Guide Dog Hot Dog and Horn Dog Plymptons illustrations and cartoons have been published in The New York Times and the weekly newspaper The Village Voice as well as in the magazines Vogue Rolling Stone Vanity Fair Penthouse and National Lampoon His political cartoon strip Plympton which began in 1975 in the SoHo Weekly News eventually was syndicated and appeared in over 20 newspapers In 1988 his animated short Your Face was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film He also became known for other animated short films including 25 Ways to Quit Smoking 1989 and Enemies 1991 the latter of which was part of the Animania series on MTV where many of his other shorts were shown In 1992 his selffinanced first featurelength animated film The Tune debuted at the Sundance Film Festival His work also appeared on the 19921993 Fox comedy series The Edge In 1993 he made his first live action film J Lyle In 1995 he contributed animation and graphics to a computer game collection Take Your Best Shot He also published a comic book in 2003 The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton Plymptons 2008 80minute feature Idiots and Angels presented by Terry Gilliam had no dialogue Plympton directed the segment On Eating and Drinking in the 2014 animated film The Prophet adapted from Kahlil Gibrans book The Prophet In 2020 Plympton released a Kickstarter for his new animated comedy western Slide The funding was successful and Plympton had planned on finishing the film by 2022