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Simpsons fans may remember a particular couch-gag from last month’s episode, “Diggs,” created by French animator Sylvain Chomet. It was a stylistically distinct, hand-drawn take on the gag and it made ...

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Indie animation king Bill Plympton just couldn’t stay away from “The Simpsons.” The Oscar nominee returns to animate the couch gag for Sunday’s episode, “22 for 30,” which is a spoof of ESPN’s ...

Couch gags play an instrumental role in each episode of The Simpsons, and this Sunday’s episode is one of the most ambitious in the show’s 31-season history. The new couch gag is a nod to the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There are many elements of The Simpsons that have powered it for 27 seasons now, and one of the ...

Season 15's "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner," co-written by the voice of Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta, begins with a couch gag brimming with ambition, specificity, imagination, and a reminder of the ...

If you weren't convinced that posting something cool on YouTube might make you famous and actually get your work on TV, here's another example where you are wrong! Three Australian blokes -- artists ...

In This Week in Animation News I’ll take a look at the previous week in the world of animation in order to get you caught up on everything you might have missed. It’s your one-stop shop for news ...