Bill Plympton.

Bill Plympton is an Illustrator born in 1946 in Portland USA. He graduated from College with a B.A in Graphic design, but has ways had a preference for illustration and film making evening going as far as filming his introduction for his Prom year book, despite the footage being upside down and un-usable it didn’t stop his ambition to create new pieces. He is most famous for his series of Illustrations and animated shorts, including “Microtoons”(1990) and “Boomtown”(1985). His work has featured in the likes of Vanity fair, Rolling Stone and the New York Times in comic strips and illustrative pieces. He has also dabbled in producing advertisements form the likes of Trivial Peruse all the way to Sugar Delight. 

His career started out with producing illustrations and political cartoon strips , which ended with his works featuring in the likes of The New York Times, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair, but one of his most prominent success came through his work with “Plympton” a strip that featured in the Soho Weekly News, by (1981), it was syndicated in over twenty papers by Universal Press. But he didn’t just produce illustrations, Plympton has also produced and financed a fair few animated features, mostly shorts it started with his first Animated film Drawing Lesson 2, a feature that came after the success from his work producing the Jules Feiffer's song “Boomtown”(1990), and that took so long to produce thanks to its live action sets, that Plympton decided to move onto another feature, but this time one that gained him an Oscar Nomination for Best Animation called “Your Face”(1987). His first feature film however was “The Tune”(1992)  and is one of his most famous works, mostly because the entire piece was financed by Plympton himself, even to the point where he divided up the film into shorts and screened them so he could gather more produce to make the rest of the film, called "The Wiseman" (1991) and "Push Comes to Shove"(1991), which won the 1991 Prix du Jury, at the Cannes Film Festival.