Bill Plympton

Haven't been overly creative lately so I'm re-discovering the things that amuse me in the hopes they amuse you too.

For instance, the glorious cartoonist Bill Plympton, whose work is frustratingly sparse due to his labour-intensive creative process, and also relatively unknown in the UK. The examples available on YouTube sadly mainly involve a few short adverts he created, but marketing spiel aside, there's something truly fascinating, and definitely hilarious, about his animation techniques. Long disappeared is the amazing 'Your Face' which served to launch his career, a haunting music video showing a man's head and shoulders distorting constantly as he sang the song, and 'Push Comes to Shove', another exercise in facial squishiness, as the comment next to this particular video describes:

And here's a more recent example of a short toon, from a set of works known as the 'Dog Series':

He did make quite a few full-length films which I intend to find out about......
All is far from lost really. There's a plethora of stuff on his website, including an actual biography (hence me not bothering here - I would only cut-and-paste the damn thing). Finally, and holy cow how I love the internet, one can watch gorgeous timelapse images of him drawing his most recent project, the 2008 release Idiots and Angels:
Woah that's awesome.
Yes, that's right, he does it all himself, as he did for previous feature length, Hair High. Darker, weirder, and far less pretentious than Tim Burton... yay Bill.