Plympton’s Twisted Toons

Awarded by the Academy and the Festival de Cannes, a staple of Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation programs, guest couch gag contributor on The Simpsons, and a fiercely independent artist, one-man industry Bill Plympton is the American underground animator par excellence, his meticulously hand-drawn style, with its fluid, distending line and voluptuous figures, one of the most immediately recognizable in the business. The legend himself will be joining us in the theater for two programs of his features and shorts—and will be whipping up sketches on the spot for any audience members who want to take home a little piece of cartooning history.

“Although my films were widely appreciated by the audiences in festivals, the distributors felt there was no audience in the US for adult animation. Now people are starting to realize the wit and beauty of my films.” —Bill Plympton