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Keep It In Motion: Bill Plympton At 80
‘Short, fast, cheap, and funny’: inside the working method that’s kept the indie icon drawing through five decades and ten features.
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Bill Plympton To Be ‘Grilled’ By Signe Baumane At Metrograph For His 80th Birthday
Fresh off a Berlin Crystal Bear win for ‘Whale 52,’ the indie legend faces a friendly onstage roast this Saturday, paired with seven of his shorts.
Five Indie Animated Features, Five Very Different Paths: Welcome To Cartoon Brew’s Awards Season Rogue Roundtable
Directors of ‘Endless Cookie,’ ‘Black Butterflies,’ ‘Boys Go to Jupiter,’ ‘Dog of God,’ and ‘Slide’ discuss their 2025 indie gems.
2026 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Whale 52’ Director Daniel Neiden (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)
Renowned animator Bill Plympton brings his signature hand-drawn style to ‘Whale 52,’ elevating this tender, magically real tale of connection.
Bill Plympton, Signe Baumane To Host Made In New York: Best Of NYC Indie Animation This Weekend
Metrograph will host the one-night-only showcase celebrating the humor, grit, and artistic individuality of the city’s indie animation scene.
Weird Al Yankovic To Present Bill Plympton Retrospective At New York’s IFC Center
Weird Al will present Bill Plympton’s ‘Your Face,’ ‘Guard Dog,’ and more plus New York premieres of ‘Duckville’ and ‘Whale 52’ at the IFC Center, Sept. 15–21.
Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist Who Worked At Terrytoons And Wrote ‘Popeye’ Feature, Dies At 95
The animated short ‘Munro,’ based on Feiffer’s story, was the first non-American animated film to win the Academy Award for best animated short.
Bizarre Christmas Cartoons: Evil Snowmen, Santa Embryos, And Psychedelic Holiday Tales
Tired of the same-old holiday animation classics? Here are some off-the-wall Christmas cartoons you might have missed.
Shout! Factory Acquires Library Of Independent Animator Bill Plympton
The deal encompasses all seven of Plympton’s feature films as well as over 50 of his shorts.
This Weekend In NYC: 3rd Annual ANNY Animation Festival And Conference
Is the New York Comic Con lacking in animation events? Check out this weekend’s ANNY festival and conference in Manhattan.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Trump Bites’ by Bill Plympton
A new series of short animated fantasies using actual Donald Trump audio clips as the basis of surreal animations that capture Trump’s paranoia, narcissism, and xenophobia.
Bill Plympton Is The First Virtual Reality Artist-in-Residence at SVA MFA Computer Arts
The Chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Arts shares exciting news about the department’s first Virtual Reality Artist-in-Residence.
Indie Animators Are All Over The Late-Night Talk Shows
This doesn’t happen often, but animators Kirsten Lepore and Bill Plympton have been the subject of discussion on recent late-night talk shows.
How Animation Artists See Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton (Updated)
The animation community has been creating fantastic cartoons and caricatures of this year’s goofball presidential candidates.
‘Revengeance’ Trailer: Bill Plympton’s Eighth Feature Might Be His Quirkiest Yet — Exclusive
Cartoon Brew reveals an exclusive trailer for “Revengeance,” the new animated feature by Bill Plympton and Jim Lujan.
This Weekend in NYC: MoCCA, Rebecca Sugar, Bill Plympton, ‘April and the Extraordinary World’
New Yorkers: Start planning your animated weekend.
‘Feast’ Director Patrick Osborne Will Debut New Short ‘Pearl’ At Tribeca
“Pearl” will be one of the thirteen animated projects screened at Tribeca next month.
Stitching Together an Animated Leap of Faith: An Interview With ‘The Prophet’ Director Roger Allers
We spoke with Allers about awards season, women in animation, and why we still don’t see enough anthology animation at the multiplex.
Mark Osborne, Phil Tippett, Noelle Stevenson, Pete Browngardt Among Headliners at Pixelatl
Mexico’s largest animation industry conference will take place next month in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Comic-Con 2015: Nine Animation Events We’re Excited About
Cut through the clutter with our handy guide to the must-see animation events happening in San Diego this year.