title: plt.axis('off') doesn't work properly when working with several subplots?
body: <p>I'd like to create an animation where I work with different subplots, each subplot having an animation on its own. I'd like to switch off the axes though, which is why I used plt.axis('off'). Unfortunately, this doesn't work when I add another figure ax2. Now, the axes are only off for ax2, but not for ax. Similary, if I add another figure on top of that, the axes can be seen for both ax and ax2, but not for the third figure. How do I suppress them in every single subplot?</p>
  <pre><code>import numpy as np
  from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
  from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation
  
  fig = plt.figure()
  fig.subplots_adjust(left=0, bottom=0, right=1, top=1, wspace=None, hspace=None)
  
  ax = fig.add_subplot(221, projection='3d')
  ax2 = fig.add_subplot(222, projection='3d')
  
  x_array = np.linspace(0, 3, 3)
  y_array = np.linspace(0, 3, 3)
  X, Y = np.meshgrid(x_array, y_array)
  
  cmap = plt.get_cmap(&quot;tab10&quot;)
  
  colors = cmap([1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1])
  colors2 = cmap([2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2])
  
  plt.axis('off')
  
  ax.scatter(X, Y, alpha=1.0, s=50, c=colors, marker='.', linewidth=5)
  ax2.scatter(X, Y, alpha=1.0, s=50, c=colors2, marker='.', linewidth=5)
  
  fig.set_size_inches(5, 5)
  
  def update(i, fig, ax):
      while i &lt;= 360:
          ax.view_init(elev=0.+i, azim=0)
          return fig, ax
      while i &lt;= 720:
          ax2.view_init(elev=0., azim=i)
          return fig, ax
  
  anim = FuncAnimation(fig, update, frames=np.arange(0, 720, 2), interval=10, repeat=True, fargs=(fig, ax))
  
  plt.show()
  </code></pre>