Levni Yilmaz (born 1973) is a San Francisco based independent film maker, artist and publisher, best known for his “Tales of Mere Existence” animated comic series. Read full biography of Lev Yilmaz →
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer... →
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a... →
A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.
When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon... →
When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them?... →
My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.
I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new... →
One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.
The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became... →
We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it... →
Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too... →
Levni Yilmaz (born 1973) is a San Francisco based independent film maker, artist and publisher, best known for his “Tales of Mere Existence” animated comic series.