The End of the World has traveled a long and winding road to its current form - a hand-drawn graphic novel - that was published by Penguin Random House earlier this month. He even took a crack at America’s longest-running animated family, The Simpsons, with the very strange couch gag that opened the show’s season 26 premiere in 2016.Īnd now he’s got a book titled - in typically Hertzfeldtian fashion - The End of the World, which his website describes as “flaccid and distressing.” Hertzfeldt, who lives in Austin, has been widely recognized for his animated films, nabbing two Oscar nominations for Best Animated Short Film and two Grand Jury Prizes at Sundance (where he holds the record for the director with the most films selected to compete at the festival, eight in all). They’re the stories of stick figures undergoing existential crises, living in a post-human future, or just getting knocked on the head a lot by a killer balloon. His animated shorts are apocalyptic and unnerving, hilarious and sometimes gruesome. But if you’re familiar with any of his films - like the World of Tomorrow series, “ It’s Such a Beautiful Day,” or the hysterically macabre “ Rejected” - that demeanor might surprise you. Don Hertzfeldt is a friendly, funny, mild-mannered guy.
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