An award-winning animated short has ties to Whidbey Island. Whidbey resident Edward Jordon wrote and produced “Whale 52 — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new animated short film "Whale 52" is inspired by two true stories. The first involves the titular aquatic mammal, commonly ...

Musical legend “Weird Al” Yankovic is teaming up with acclaimed animator Bill Plympton for a weeklong retrospective at the IFC Center, running September 15–21. The program, Plympton’s Toons, will ...

Bill Plympton has got some crazy work ethic. Since he made his name as in animator in the late ’80s with the Oscar-nominated Your Face, a short cartoon featuring not much more than a goofy little ...

Awards-season roundtables tend to follow a familiar script: studio-backed films, rehearsed talking points, and careers recaps that move along well-lit, well-funded paths. Our Oscars chat did not.