Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Bill Plympton moved to New York City, upon graduation from Portland State University in Graphic Design. He began his career creating cartoons for publications such as New York Times, National Lampoon, Playboy and Screw. In 1987 he was nominated for an Oscar for his short Your Face. After producing many shorts which appeared on MTV and Spike and Mike's, he turned his talent to features. Since 1991 he's made 9 feature films, 6 of them, The Tune, Mondo Plympton, I Married A Strange Person, Mutant Aliens, Hair High and Idiots and Angels animated features. In 2005, Bill's received another Oscar nomination, this time for a short film Guard Dog.