This is the title of an interesting story in yesterday’s New York Times about independent, adult-oriented animation, which notes that,
Serious animation is not unknown in the United States, although the market situation might be comparable to that of California wine, pre-1976. “Waltz With Bashir,” the coming Sony Pictures Classics animated release about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s, is as serious as film can get. “Persepolis” and “The Triplets of Belleville” were major examples of a post-Looney Tunes approach and a maturity of subject matter, if not necessarily technique. But all three are imports. To get their work seen, most animators in the United States have to move their work the other way.
It includes interviews with Bill Plympton (those are images from his short, Hot Dog, above), Don Hertzfeldt, and Signe Bauman, as well as Henry Selick.
(Thanks to John Ryan for the link.)
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