Plympton is a suburb located in south-east Plymouth. It was originally an ancient stannary town and an important trading centre for locally-mined tin. It was also a port, until the River Plym silted up and the sea trade moved down the river to Plymouth.
Plympton officially became part of the city of Plymouth, along with Plymstock, in 1967. Plympton still has its own town centre (called the Ridgeway), and is itself an amalgamation of several villages, including St Mary's, St Maurice, Colebrook, Woodford, Boringdon, Newnham, Langage and Chaddlewood.
Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon on April 30, 1946 to Don and Wilda Plympton.
Plympton's illustrations and cartoons have been printed in The New York Times and The Village Voice, as well as the magazines Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse, and National Lampoon.
His political cartoon strip "Plympton", which began in 1975, eventually was syndicated and appeared in over twenty newspapers.
In Bill Plympton's world, flesh is infinitely malleable, and that flexibility becomes the occasion for obscenely funny vignettes on the twin themes of sex and violence (actually the title of one of Plympton's shorts).
Plympton's previous feature, The Tune (1992), used a struggling songwriter's quest for success as the frame story for a somewhat loosely bound collection of set pieces, from musical numbers to segments that had already been exhibited as short subjects on their own.
While enjoyable enough in a modest way, the movie lacked the bite of Plympton's best work, and the sequences that did work, such as one in which two suit-clad men devise increasingly intricate means of destroying each other, seemed so disconnected from the story that their arbitrary placement was distracting.
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