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$15 Guard Dog Tier members get a postcard drawing mailed to their home, and $100 Strange Person members get their name in the credits of Bill’s films!

Whale 52 - Suite for Man, Boy, and Whale

A third-grade student who's selectively mute and a grieving 80-year-old school volunteer discover that some of the deepest conversations only require a single word.

Written by Edward Jordon and Daniel Neiden

Animated and Directed by Bill Plympton and Daniel Neiden

Debuting at the IFC Theater for "Weird Al Presents: Plympton's Toons"! September 15-21 2025

“Weird Al” Yankovic is proud to present a collection of the weirdest, wildest, and most innovative short films of Oscar®-Nominated Animator, Bill Plympton.

Bill will be on hand for a Q&A at the first two screenings of Sept. 15th and 16th, 2025. Drop by and say hello!

“Don’t Download This Song”, “Whale 52”, “Duckville”, “Your Face”, “Homer’s Face”, “Guard Dog”, “Hot Dog”, “25 Ways to Quit Smoking”, “The Cow Who Wanted to be a Hamburger”, “Eat”, “How to Kiss”, “Santa: The Fascist Years”, “Push Comes to Shove”

We still love physical media! Plymptoons has partnered with Deaf Crocodile on not one - but three feature films!

Get your remastered copies of The Tune, I Married a Strange Person, and Mutant Aliens - with LIMITED special edition options! - And see these films in the highest quality available.

Each disk comes with special features, interviews, and Plymptoons Shorts!

A dark fairy tale about a duck village that, in order to get tourists, fakes a wild monster attack to increase fame and sympathy. But, of course, everything goes wrong.

Plymptoons’ latest short, Duckville, currently making rounds in the film festival circuit. Get updates on screenings where you might get to meet Bill in-person, and he’ll even give you a free sketch!

What if Clint Eastwood and Mel Brooks became cartoonists and united to create the wackiest, most surreal musical western ever? That’s Slide. It's the story of a corrupt logging village, Sourdough Creek, ruled by two evil twin brothers, Zeke and Jeb, who enjoy nothing more than killing and greed.

Then, one day a mysterious cowboy arrives in town, carrying nothing but his slide guitar…