Mccay s spiritual successor might be bill plympton, who also gained notability for making animated cartoons with little to no assistance. This volume is the only existing biography of one of americas greatest and most influential cartoonists. Bill plympton has also collaborated with kanye west and weird al yankovic in a number of music videos and book projects. Though mccay was incensed by the attack, hearst was an isolationist and demanded that he draw antiwar cartoons. James, who wrote a series of erotic twilight fanfiction pieces. He didnt invent the medium but is responsible for advances in the field and creating the basic way cartoons are still made today. Winsor mccays last animated film, the 1921 classic the flying house dream of the. Feb 10, 2015 jackie greene good advice by bill plympton official music video duration. Mccay lives on in the annual winsor mccay award and the nemo award.
Herald and his moving comics 1911, gertie the dinosaur 1914 and the sinking of. At this point, im the author of around eighty books, including such series as race against time, the three investigators, young indiana jones, and tom clancys net force. Bill plympton born april 30, 1946 is an american animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 academy awards nominated animated short your face and his series of shorts guard dog, guide dog, hot dog, and horn dog. Over the past quarter century, bill plympton has produced a few dozen short films, even more commissions, and five animated features. If anyone should be considered the american dean of indie animators, it would the new yorkbased master artist bill plympton. The original idea came from his son playing with flipbooks, in which a child rifles the pages of a book rapidly with his finger, thus causing the individual drawings to appear. About bill mccay after starting out in public relations and editorial work in the corporate arena, bill mccay made the transition to writer and editor in the publishing field. The master creation of winsor mccay 1869 1934, restless sleeper nemo inspired generations of artists with his weekly adventures from bed to slumberland, a realm of colorful companions. Winsor mccay animates the sinking of the lusitania in a. The winsor mccay award named in honor of animator winsor mccay, best known as a prolific artist and pioneer in the art of comic strips and animation, the winsor mccay award stands as one of the highest honors given to an individual in the animation industry in recognition for career contributions to the art of animation. Open all day and into the night, this is a pretty restaurant, with plenty of bills sparkle. The flying house by windsor mccay, colorizes it in the plymptoons. Winsor mccay 1911 mccay had already made a cartoon version of his famous little nemo in 1911, releasing it to both movie theaters and then using it in his vaudeville act. Tales of the jungle imps, little sammy sneeze, dreams of a rarebit fiend, and pilgrims progress.
The life and art of the king of indie animation, by bill plympton and david levy, is part biography, part retrospective, and part behindthescenes look at bill plymptons life and career. A prolific artist, mccays pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by walt disney and others in later decades. John canemaker born 1943 is an academy awardwinning independent animator, animation historian, teacher, lecturer, and author perhaps best known for his many books about the disney studio, including walt disneys nine old men and the art of animation. He has directed three films that have been selected for the national film registry by the library of congress as being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.
Bill mckays phone number, email, address, public records. Checkers goal is to gather in one series all of mccay s work other than little nemo, which has seen widespread reprint publication. We are unable to accept trade credit or gift cards issued from those stores. Plympton is a literary studio that innovates in digital publishing. When we first met years ago, he was the political cartoonist of the soho weekly news their alternative to the village voices jules feiffer. Mccays spiritual successor might be bill plympton, who also gained. Learn about the artist and find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices. It was the equivalent of a movie, he realized, which implied that in another. At age 21, mccay started working as a poster and billboard artist for a chicago company. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into enduring popular art of the highest imagination through mccays innovative genius.
The winsor mccay award is given to individuals in recognition of lifetime or career. Bill plympton is raising funds for winsor mccay resurrection project on kickstarter. Accompanied by the dulcet tones of your face is like a song, american indie filmmaker bill plymptons landmark short twists, curls, duplicates and explodes. He has also worked with stan lee on riftworld, a science fiction comedyadventure set in the comics business. Using winsor mccay s beautiful artwork, i took it upon myself to resurrect his last animated short, dreams of the rarebit fiend.
Winsor mccay 18711934 has been called the father of the animated cartoon. And because of that, you truly never know what youre going to find. He is best known for the comic strip little nemo 190514. The flying house by windsor mccay, colorizes it in the plymptoons style and then adds music and the voices of patrica. Plympton was born in portland, oregon, the son of wilda jean jerman and donald f. Like animator james curran, who created his own animated openingcredits sequence for steven spielbergs the adventures of tintin, released it to the web, watched it go viral, and ended up with a job offer from spielberg himself. The bizarre cartoons of bill plympton a new collection of bills print cartoons, some of which inspired the gags in his short films. This grated on the artist more and more until finally he decided to follow up on his hugely successful gertie the dinosaur by making the sinking of the lusitania 1918, which you can see above. In 2011, bill plymptons studio remastered the neglected film, digitally. See more ideas about little nemo in slumberland, animation film and classic comics. He started out as a newspaper cartoonist, achieving a national reputation for his strips little nemo in slumberland and dreams of a rarebit fiend. He started out as a newspaper cartoonist, achieving a national reputation for his strips little nemo in. He has written five books for the stargate franchise.
The life and art of the king of indie animation plympton, bill, levy, david b. Plympton deliberately aims for mature audiences and makes personal pictures with sexual, violent and sometimes political content. Winsor mccay 18671934 is universally acknowledged as the first master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. Winsor mccays son, bob mccay, was also active as a cartoonist. Plympton, and was raised on a farm in nearby oregon city with five siblings. Bill plympton is an american cartoonist who is best known as an independent animator. October 21, 2018 winsor mccay was an amazing illustrator with a great eye for perspective, as showcased in his groundbreaking first animation. He also produced little nemo in slumberland, one of the most fantastic and beautiful newspaper comics in the history of.
Bill plymptons updated version of winsor mccays animation is timely. Dreams of the rarebit fiend, a pilgrims progress, and another selection of new york american editorial cartoons. He literally works outside the studio system by doing every aspect of his cartoons writing, drawing, coloring, filming, editing, etc. Once the news disappeared into the trash bin of history, plympton applied his remarkable penciling skills to making wacky short. People bring us their previously loved books, movies, video games, music, etc. Mccay has been the subject of several exceptional surveys john canemakers 1987 winsor mccay. His two bestknown creations are the newspaper comic strip little nemo in slumberland, which ran from 1905 to 1914, and the. Winsor mccay resurrection project by bill plympton. These are all short, quick onepanel bits of shocking hilarity. Like many pioneers, the work of winsor mccay has been largely superseded by successors such as walt disney and max fleischer but he more than earns a place in film history for being the american cinemas first great cartoon animator. In 1992, bill plympton made history by drawing an entire film. Ive also worked with stan lee on riftworld, a science fiction comedyadventure set in the comics business, and ive written five novels based on the film stargate. July 26, 1934 was an american cartoonist and animator. In 1909 he began to draw cartoons for animated movies, releasing little nemo in 1911, how a mosquito operates in 1912 and gertie, the trained dinosaur, his most famous movie containing 10,000 separate drawings, in 1914.
Bill plympton restoring winsor mccays the flying house. Besides the first time ever complete reprintings of better known fixtures in the mccay canon like hungry henrietta, little sammy sneeze. After starting out in public relations and editorial work in the corporate arena, bill mccay made the transition to writer and editor in the publishing field. Checkers goal is to gather in one series all of mccays work other than little nemo, which has seen widespread reprint publication. Bill plymptons major historical claim to fame is that he was the first person to singlehandedly illustrate and color an entire animated feature filmall 30,000 frames of it. The life and art of the king of indie animation, by bill plympton and david levy, is part biography. Early 20thcentury cartoonist and animator mccay was a master draftsman, but his writing leaves much to be desired, and his occasional reliance on. Jul 23, 2018 bill plympton is raising funds for winsor mccay resurrection project on kickstarter. The bizarre cartoons of bill plympton a new collection of bill s print cartoons, some of which inspired the gags in his short films. From 1964 to 1968, he studied graphic design at portland state university, where he was a member of the film society and worked on the yearbook. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into.
Bill mccay is an american author and has written over seventy books in total. Reel from bill plympton on vimeo as plympton puts it on the commentary track for the tune, he got the idea of creating his own fulllength movie in the 80s when he was assembling his shorts for a retrospective collection, and he realized hed produced more than an hour of animation on his own in just four years. The lavishly illustrated new book independently animated. Like many pioneers, the work of winsor mccay has been largely superseded by successors such as walt disney and max. Plympton is considered the king of indie animation and is the first person to hand draw an entire animated feature film. Try our new dinner set menu, enjoy 23 courses from 17. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into enduring popular art of the highest imagination through mccay s innovative genius.
Best known for little nemo in slumberland, and the. Mccays spiritual successor might be bill plympton, who also gained notability for making animated cartoons with little to no assistance. Winsor mccay winsor mccay in 1906 born zenas winsor mckay 18690926. In 2006, he received the winsor mccay lifetime achievement award from the annie awards. Mckay used books manassas, va movies music frequently. The complete little nemo compilation meet little nemo, a diminutive hero of comic narrative, but one of the greatest dream voyagers of the 20th century. Bill will be on hand afterward for a cocktail reception, as will the film. Richard mckay used books, located in manassas, va, is a separate company from mckay brothers in richmond, mckay used books in tennessee, and mckay used books in north carolina. Under a variety of pseudonyms as well as his own name, bill mccay is the author of more than seventy books, including such series as the race against time, the three investigators, young indiana jones, and tom clancys net force. Winsor mccays 1921 short the flying house restored by. Bill plympton born april 30, 1946 is an american animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 academy awards nominated animated short.
Through partnerships, we are behind recovering the classics, helped power the subway library in new york city, run the literary codex hackathon, created a curated mobile reading service, produced a virtual reality adaptation of george saunders lincoln in the bardo, helped launch the twitter fiction festival, and are. These days, independent creators have plenty of unlikely side roads to mainstream success. Hugely popular creator of the comic strip little nemo in slumberland. Unfortunately, outside of film history books, winsor never received the attention that he deserved. In 1909 he began to draw cartoons for animated movies, releasing little nemo in 1911, how a mosquito operates in 1912 and gertie, the trained dinosaur, his most famous movie containing 10,000. An influential figure for cartoonists and animators throughout the 20th century and beyond, winsor mccay 18691934 is perhaps best known for the creation of the little nemo in slumberland comic strip. His first stargate book was released in 1995, two years before the premiere of stargate sg1. Because of this, it does not fit with sg1 or the other stargate spin offs references.
For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name silas on the comic strip dream of the rarebit fiend. Born and raised in portland, oregon, bill plympton on vimeo. In 1980, he began teaching and developing the animation program at new york university, tisch school of the arts, kanbar institute of film and. First published on october 15, 1905, the weekly little nemo strip followed the adventures of a young boy named nemo whose fantastical nightly dreams were detailed through the comic. Jackie greene good advice by bill plympton official music video duration. Everything you find on our shelves was brought to us by other customers like you.