| 1. Who am I again? |
I draw stuff. I animate stuff. I write stuff. The whole sordid story is here. Email me here.
| 2. What have I been doing lately? |
June 14: Follow my new Twitter feed Disalmanac. It's packed with The Funny, and was mentioned on the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon blog.
June 10: I've collaborated with McSweeney's author Deb Olin Unferth (Vacation) on a 4-page mini-comic, which is now online here. It's about housepainters, kind of.
May 25: New animation! Ben Garant (The State, Reno 911) tells the true story of his encounter with a faith healer.
This animation was commisioned for the RISK! podcast. Check them out!
May 5: I just completed work on a music video for Boston Spaceships, a new band featuring Guided By Voices mastermind Robert Pollard. Here's a still:
It will be featured on a new DVD being put together by Tom Scharpling that will benefit WFMU. This video won't be online until September.
April 14: My new minicomic, "Let's Learn About The Damn Presidents Already, Geez" was a big success at MoCCA, New York's big alternative comix festival. Check out the book here.
April 13: I just found out that "Cool Yourself," the music video I did recently for Thao With The Get Down Stay Down, will be screening at MoCCA on Sunday, on a bill that also features Bill Plympton and many others. Come on down and check it out!
| 3. Am I on Twitter...? |
Yes. I tweet a lot. My tweets are even featured on Michael Ian Black's Witstream site. Follow me here.
I'm also writing a fake trivia Twitter feed called Disalmanac. Follow it today for several tweets a day that will give you smartliness.
| 4. I have a blog or something, right? |
It's on hiatus right now, but it'll be back soon.
| 5. I made an animated feature film? Really? |
Yes. For my first film "Atom Age Vampire" I took the sound from a really awful 1960 horror film and animated new visuals to it. Here's a still:
Bill Corbett (Mystery Science Theater 3000, Rifftrax) said, "Very funny! In the MST3K tradition."
"Atom Age Vampire" has played at several film festivals nationwide, and you can buy the DVD for only $10 (cheap!) directly at the film's web site.
| 6. But I've made like, hundreds of others of animated videos for the web, right? |
Indeed. I've worked with comedians like John Hodgman, Jenny Slate, and Kristen Schaal. I've made music videos for Low, Thao, Yo La Tengo and more.
My videos are spread out all over the web, but here is a page with links to about a hundred of my best and most popular videos.
| 7. Didn't I publish some books, too? |
"Scott Bateman's Sketchbook of Secrets & Shame" (Word Riot Press, 2007) features over 200 of my best single-panel cartoons, plus essays about my work from Wil Wheaton, Dr. & Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey (aka Dave Eggers), John Kovalic (Dork Tower), and more. See some samples and buy the book here.
My latest mini-book is "Let's Learn About The Damn Presidents Already, Geez," a 24-page chapbook crammed with drawings of and completely made-up trivia about all of our American presidents. See some samples and buy the book here.
| 8. Can I see some random-ass thing I drew? |
| 9. No, seriously. Who am I again? |
Read all about my work for film, TV, the web, books and newspapers right here.
| 10. Is there other Scott Bateman stuff online, too? |
• My
IMDb page.
• My tweets appear on WitStream.
• My Wikipedia
page is out-of-date and features a ridiculous photo of me.
| 11. How do people contact me, anyway? |
My email address is scott at batemanimation dot com.
| 12. Where did I leave my keys? |
I don't know. Probably on that side table in the dining room? Did I check the pockets of the pants I was wearing last night?