Legends of animation
Ralph Bakshi dropped by the Bill Plympton booth, and posed for pictures with Bill. This touched off a photographic frenzy that I haven't seen since Mike Judge AND Don Hertzfeldt visited a few years back.
If you're not familiar with Bakshi's animation, please check it out. He did an animated version of "The Lord of the Rings" years before Peter Jackson gave it a go (though admittedly his version only covered the first 1/2 of the three books, which made my mother curse Hollywood and all it stood for...)
You might be more familiar with his animation in "Cool World", or "Fritz the Cat" (the first animated feature to receive an X rating), or his controversial episodes of "Mighty Mouse". Anyway you slice it, he's an original and a visionary.
And he appeared in his booth on Friday and Saturday, for just one hour a day. Now THAT'S how you build up hype at Comic-Con. We tend to go the opposite route, by keeping Bill in the booth for as much time as possible - the hype is less, but I think we sell more DVDs that way.
Legends of animation
Ralph Bakshi dropped by the Bill Plympton booth, and posed for pictures with Bill. This touched off a photographic frenzy that I haven't seen since Mike Judge AND Don Hertzfeldt visited a few years back.
If you're not familiar with Bakshi's animation, please check it out. He did an animated version of "The Lord of the Rings" years before Peter Jackson gave it a go (though admittedly his version only covered the first 1/2 of the three books, which made my mother curse Hollywood and all it stood for...)
You might be more familiar with his animation in "Cool World", or "Fritz the Cat" (the first animated feature to receive an X rating), or his controversial episodes of "Mighty Mouse". Anyway you slice it, he's an original and a visionary.
And he appeared in his booth on Friday and Saturday, for just one hour a day. Now THAT'S how you build up hype at Comic-Con. We tend to go the opposite route, by keeping Bill in the booth for as much time as possible - the hype is less, but I think we sell more DVDs that way.