Indie animation legend Bill Plympton dropped by the Friday, May 18 "Cort & Fatboy" podcast in support of a new documentary about him, "Adventures in Plymptoons" -- which is making a tour of McMenamins beer-theaters for the rest of the month.
We had a nice wide-ranging chat with Bill and the doc's director, Alexia Anastasio.Topics discussed: "Plympton’s career, the making of the documentary, and the strange path to stardom Plympton took -- starting on the banks of the Clackamas, winding through illustrations for a succession of skin mags, animating bumpers for MTV, getting short films screened with Don Herzfeldt and Mike Judge, turning down a million-dollar contract from Disney, and populated with people like Terry Gilliam, Ron Jeremy, David Carradine, Matthew Modine and Kanye West."
(Also, for a few minutes at the end, I just straight-up loathed "Battleship.")
Show-notes here.
Cort and Fatboy (Friday, May 18, 2012) [ iTunes feed ]
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