Self Portrait

Bill Plympton's animation style is simple (just using colored pencils) but has such a gruesome imagination and a sort of lighthearted sadism in its depiction of bodily torture and injury. The funniest short overall on this collection is "25 Ways to Quit Smoking" but "Your Face" is the most surreal and "One of Those Days" gets the prize for being the most sadistically enjoyable.

Buy the tape or DVD. Give Bill Plympton your money. Encourage him to make more movies. Unfortunately, the commentary on the DVD drags--it's obvious he's reading from a script--but the accompanying documentaries provide the same insight and background information (skip the "Screw" interview, however; the host is more interested in telling his own stories than listening to Mr. Plympton).