Today, Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology (PFCAT) is pleased to announce that legendary director and animator Bill Plympton will be in attendance at the 2023 Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology on August 4th at 8pm. This special event will be held at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s (OMSI) Empirical […]
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Animator Bill Plympton to Appear at Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology in August
July 12th, 2023 
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CROWD FUNDING: Let’s Support Bill Plympton’s “Slide”
December 16th, 2020 Jerry Beck The king of the independent animators – Bill Plympton – has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for his next ani aged feature-in-progress: Slide. It looks great to me – but I’ll let Bill tell you himself in the video below and his letter to me below that: Plympton’s New Feature SLIDE is running […]
Peter Pan, Looney Tunes and Bill Plympton Among Massive Trove of Cartoon Art in Heritage’s Summer Animation Art Auction
June 12th, 2020 Jerry Beck One of the largest collections of artwork from Walt Disney’s Peter Pan ever brought to market, including masterpieces by David Hall and Mary Blair and the largest offering of art, photos, books, ephemera, checks, insurance cards and studio letters hand-signed by Walt Disney could make Heritage Auctions’ June 19-21 Animation Art Auction one of the […]
INTERVIEW: Bill Plympton Discusses his Animated Features
October 30th, 2019 Jerry Beck Shout! Factory has acquired the film library of independent animator Bill Plympton in a deal that encompasses all seven of the Plympton feature films (The Tune, I Married a Strange Person!, Mutant Aliens, Hair High, Idiots and Angels, Cheatin’, and his latest feature, Revengeance) – as well as over 50 of his shorts, including the […]
Shout! Factory Announces Acquisition of Bill Plympton Library
July 10th, 2019 Jerry Beck Shout! Factory has acquired the library of acclaimed animator and cartoonist Bill Plympton. The deal encompasses all seven of the Plympton feature films (The Tune, I Married a Strange Person!, Mutant Aliens, Hair High, Idiots and Angels, Cheatin’, and his latest feature, Revengeance) as well as over 50 of his shorts, including the Academy Award-nominated […]
Bill Plympton’s “Your Face” Global Jam
December 12th, 2017 Jerry Beck In 1987, Bill Plympton burst onto the animation scene with the debut of his short Your Face at the Annecy Festival. After winning numerous awards and garnering a nomination for an Oscar, Plympton has gone on a 30-year career as “The King of Indie Animation”. To commemorate three decades, producer Ken Mora commissioned a special […]
New York Doubles-Up for an Annie-approved Commercial
January 9th, 2017 Jake S. Friedman Yo! New York is representing at the 2017 Annie Awards with two stalwarts of the east-coast community, J. J. Sedelmaier and Bill Plympton – united for a viral commercial, The Importance Of Paying Attention: Teeth. It is one in a series of three animated spots for the Ford Motor Company, each a gag-themed short about […]
Bill Plympton’s Debuts His New Feature Mockumentary “Hitler’s Folly”
May 12th, 2016 Jerry Beck PLYMPTOONS has announced the US release date of Bill Plympton’s new feature mockumentary Hitler’s Folly, a merciless satire in which Adolf Hitler is reimagined as a successful animator and artist. And as a special thank you to his loyal fans, Plympton will make film available, streaming for free, via his website, on Friday, June 3rd. […]
