The 85 Weirdest, Day 21: Bill Plympton
Thursday, April 17th, 2008The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!
You have to love the artist who foists his particular brand of weirdness on an unsuspecting world in the sneakiest of ways. Take animator BILL PLYMPTON (1946– ), for instance. His brilliant celebrations of the body grotesque have sold you everything from tacos to operating systems. Infiltration via MTV before it sucked? Check. The ’toons even spawned a snarky comeback (“So’s your face”). “More fun than nitrous oxide!” says a guy on the Internet. We couldn’t agree more.
Bill Plympton is a guest this weekend at the New York Comic Con. Also, Friday at the NYCC: the Weird Tales 85th anniversary panel discussion, featuring Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, WT editorial director Stephen H. Segal, artist Molly Crabapple, pulp historian and horror editor Stefan Dziemianowicz, and more!
