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Bill Plympton 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 featuring a dog character starting with 2004s Guard Dog . Early life . Plympton was born in Portland , Oregon , the son of Wilda Jean ( Jerman ) and Donald F . Plympton , and was raised on a farm in nearby Oregon City with five siblings : Sally , Tia , Peggy , David and Peter . 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 . In 1968 , he transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City , where he majored in cartooning . He graduated from SVA in 1969 . Career . Plymptons illustrations and cartoons have been published in The New York Times and the weekly newspaper The Village Voice , as well as in the magazines Vogue , Rolling Stone , Vanity Fair , Penthouse , and National Lampoon . His political cartoon strip Plympton , which began in 1975 in the SoHo Weekly News , eventually was syndicated and appeared in over 20 newspapers . In 1988 , his animated short Your Face was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film . He also became known for other animated short films , including 25 Ways to Quit Smoking ( 1989 ) and Enemies ( 1991 ) , the latter of which was part of the Animania series on MTV , where many of his other shorts were shown . In 1991 , Plympton won the Prix Spécial du Jury at the Cannes Film Festival for Push Comes to Shove which was featured on MTVs animated series Liquid Television . In 1992 , his self-financed , first feature-length animated film , The Tune debuted at the Sundance Film Festival . His work also appeared on the 1992–1993 Fox comedy series The Edge . In 1993 , he made his first live action film , J . Lyle . In 1995 , he contributed animation and graphics to a computer game collection , Take Your Best Shot . He also published a comic book in 2003 , The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton . The actress Martha Plimpton , a distant relative of his , served as associate producer on Plymptons animated feature Hair High ( 2004 ) , doing much of the casting . The movies voice cast included her father Keith Carradine and her uncle David Carradine . Later works . Guard Dog ( 2004 ) was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film . In 2005 , Plympton animated a music video for Kanye Wests Heard Em Say and the following year , he created the music video for Weird Al Yankovics Dont Download This Song . Plympton contributed animation to the 2006 History Channel series 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America , to illustrate the events of Shays Rebellion . Together with other independent New York City animators , he has released two DVDs of animated shorts , both titled Avoid Eye Contact . Plymptons 2008 80-minute feature , Idiots and Angels presented by Terry Gilliam , had no dialogue . The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 26 April 2008 , In 2011 , Alexia Anastasio completed a documentary on Plymptons life , Adventures In Plymptoons! , released in September 2012 direct-to-DVD and on video-on-demand . In 2011 , Plympton collaborated with child film critic Perry Chen on Ingrid Pitt : Beyond the Forest , a 2011 short animated film directed by Kevin Sean Michaels , about actress and Holocaust survivor Ingrid Pitt . Plympton animated the opening couch gag for the Simpsons episodes Beware My Cheating Bart in 2012 , Black Eyed , Please in 2013 , Married to the Blob in 2014 , Lisa the Veterinarian in 2016 , 22 for 30 in 2017 , 3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage in 2018 , and Manger Things in 2021 ; as well as the menus and packaging for the Season 19 DVD . Plympton directed the segment On Eating and Drinking in the 2014 animated film The Prophet , adapted from Kahlil Gibrans book The Prophet . In 2018 , Plympton created a series of videos for The New York Times called “Trump Bites” . One of the series , Trump and Putin : A Love Story , depicts Trump and Putin kissing half-naked . Critics said the video implied that gay relationships were inherently comical and immoral . In 2020 , Plympton released a Kickstarter for his new animated comedy western , Slide . The funding was successful and Plympton plans on finishing the film by 2021 . Legacy . A collection of more than 180 Plympton items is held at the Academy Film Archive . The archive has preserved Plymptons films such as Your Face , The Tune , Guard Dog , and The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger . His films have featured in the Animation Show of Shows including Your Face , Guard Dog , Eat ( 2001 ) , The Fan and the Flower ( 2005 ) , and Santa : The Fascist Years ( 2009 ) . Personal life . On December 23 , 2011 , Plympton married animator/artist/illustrator Sandrine Flament at his sisters house in Oregon . Their son , Lucas , was born in September 2012 . Influences . Plympton has stated he has many influences , the biggest being the work of the Walt Disney studio with others including Tex Avery , Bob Clampett , Robert Crumb , Milton Glaser , Charles Addams , Roland Topor , Quentin Tarantino , Frank Capra , Richard Lester , Bob Godfrey , Saul Steinberg , Tomi Ungerer , Jacques Tati , Milt Kahl , Carlos Nine , and Jules Feiffer . He said I Married a Strange Person ! was influenced by Peter Jackson , some of his earlier films .. . where he used gore and violence and blood as humor . Awards . - 1988 Academy Award nomination for Short Animation : Your Face - 1991 Jury Prize for Short Films , Push Comes to Shove , Cannes Film Festival - 2005 Academy Award nomination for Short Animation : Guard Dog - 2006 Winsor McCay Award Annie Awards by ASIFA-Hollywood - 2011 20th Annual Cinema St . Louis Film Festival ( traditional name : St . Louis International Film Festival ) , Lifetime Achievement Award - 2011 Burbank International Film Festival , Pioneer in Theatrical Animation Award - 2011 Action On Film International Film Festival , Lifetime Achievement Award - 2013 ANIMAFicx Award , 51st Gijon International Film Festival : Cheatin Filmography . Animated features . - The Tune ( 1992 ) - I Married a Strange Person ! ( 1997 ) - Mutant Aliens ( 2001 ) - Hair High ( 2004 ) - Idiots and Angels ( 2008 ) - Cheatin ( 2014 ) - Revengeance ( 2016 ) - Slide ( 2021 or 2022 ) Documentaries . - Fuck ( 2005 ; provided animated sequences ) - Adventures in Plymptoons ! by Alexia Anastasio ( 2011 ) Live-action features . - J . Lyle ( 1993 ) - Guns on the Clackamas ( 1995 ) - Walt Curtis , the Peckerneck Poet ( 1997 ) - Hitlers Folly ( a mockumentary ) ( 2016 ) Animated shorts . Source unless otherwise noted : - Lucas the Ear of Corn ( 1977 ; 4:00 ) - Boomtown ( 1985 ; 6:00 ) - Your Face ( 1987 ; 3:10 ) - Love in the Fast Lane ( 1987 ; 3:00 ) - Drawing Lesson #2 ( 1988 ; 6:00 ) - One of Those Days ( 1988 : 7:50 ) - How to Kiss ( 1989 ; 6:35 ) - 25 Ways to Quit Smoking ( 1989 ; 5:00 ) - Plymptoons ( 1990 ; 6:45 ) - Tango Schmango ( 1990 ) - Dig My Do ( 1990 ; 4:00 ) - The Wise Man ( 1990 : 4:30 ) - Push Comes to Shove ( 1991 ; 6:30 ) - Draw ( 1993 ; 2:00 ) - Faded Roads ( 1994 ; 2:30 ) - Nosehair ( 1994 ; 7:00 ) - How to Make Love to a Woman ( 1995 ; 5:00 ) - Smell the Flowers ( 1996 ; 2:00 ) - Boney D ( 1996 ; 3:00 ) - Plympmania ( 1996 ; 8:00 ) - Sex & Violence ( 1997 ; 8:00 ) - The Exciting Life of a Tree ( 1998 ; 7:00 ) - More Sex & Violence ( 1998 ; 7;00 ) - Surprise Cinema ( 1999 ; 7:00 ) - Life ( 1999 , 6:10 ) ( presenter , animator ) - Cant Drag Race with Jesus ( 2000 ; 2:00 ) - Eat ( 2001 ; 9:00 ) - Parking ( 2001 ; 5:22 ) - Guard Dog ( 2004 ; 5:00 ) - The Fan and The Flower ( 2005 ; 7:10 ) - Guide Dog ( 2006 ; 5:45 ) ( sequel to Guard Dog ) - Shuteye Hotel ( 2007 ; 7:00 ) - Gary Guitar ( 2008 ) ( episode of Random ! Cartoons ) - Hot Dog ( 2008 ) ( third in the Guard Dog series ) - Santa : The Fascist Years ( 2009 ) - Horn Dog ( 2009 ) ( fourth in the Guard Dog series ) - The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger ( 2010 ) - Summer Bummer ( 2011 ; 1:49 ) - Waiting For Her Sailor ( 2011 ; 0:30 ) - Tiffany the Whale : Death on the Runway ( 2012 ; 8:56 ) - Drunker Than a Skunk ( 2013 ; 3:30 ) - ABCs of Death 2 ( segment-H is for Head Games ) - Footprints ( 2014 ; 4:01 ) - The Loneliest Stoplight ( 2015 ; 6:18 ) - Cop Dog 2017 Animated TV shorts . - 12 Tiny Christmas Tales ( 2001 ) - ChalkZone “That Thing You Drew” - The Simpsons couch gags ( s23e18 , s24e15 , s25e10 , s27e15 , s28e17 , s29e13 and s32e16 ) Compilations ( DVD ) . - Avoid Eye Contact Vol . 1 - Avoid Eye Contact Vol . 2 - Plymptoons : The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton ( 1992 ) - Bill Plymptons Dirty Shorts ( 2006 ) - Mondo Plympton ( 2007 ) - Bill Plymptons Dog Days ( 2009 ) - Bill Plymptons Dogs & Cows ( 2013 ) Music videos . - Peter Himmelman – 245 Days ( 1990 ) - Kanye West – Heard Em Say ( 2005 ) - Weird Al Yankovic – Dont Download This Song ( 2006 ) - Parson Brown , Mexican Standoff ( 2008 ) - Weird Al Yankovic – TMZ ( 2011 ) - Cousin Joe Twoshacks ( Joe Cartoon ) - Deep End ( 2014 ) - NO SNOW FOR CHRISTMAS Commercials . - MTV public service announcement Acid Rain ( 1989 ) - Trivial Pursuit ( 3 ) ( 1990–91 ) - Nutrasweet ( 1991 ) - Soloflex Transformation ( 1992 ) - Oregon Lottery Blackjack ( 1992 ) - NBC Peacock Bumper ( 1993 ) - Taco Bell Fuddy Duddy ( 1993 ) - Nik Naks ( UK ) ( 1993 ) - Microsoft Windows 95 ( 1995 ) - AirTouch Cellular ( 1996 ) - AT&T Longshot ( 1996 ) - AT&T Wireless Map-O-Rama ( 1997 ) - 7-11/PBS Head & Explore ( 1998 ) - The Money Store End of the World & Rollercoaster ( 1998 ) - Geico Direct ( 6 ) ( 1999 ) - Wilson Tennis ( 3 ) ( 2002 ) - United Airlines Signature ( 2005 ) External links . - Plymptoons.com ( official website ) . Retrieved on May 5 , 2018 . - Bill Plympton at IMDb . Retrieved on May 5 , 2018 . - Criterion Channel trailer - Plymptoons official YouTube channel - Official Vimeo channel