Chuck Amuck : The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

by Chuck Jones, Foreword by Steven Spielberg, Preface by Matt Groening

• ISBN13: 9780374526207
• ISBN10: 0374526206
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-12-03
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

The illustrated classic, complete with a new preface by Matt Groening. Winner of three Academy Awards and numerous other prizes for his animated films, Chuck Jones is the director of scores of famous Warner Bros. cartoons and the creator of such memorable characters as the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepeacute; Le Pew, and Marvin Martian. In this beguiling memoir, Chuck Jones evokes the golden years of life at "Termite Terrace," the Warner Bros. studio in which he and his now-famous fellow animators conceived the cartoons that delighted millions of moviegoers throughout the world and entertain new generations of fans on television. Not a mere history,Chuck Amuckcaptures the antic spirit that created classic cartoons-such as Duck Dodgers in the 241/2 Century, One Froggy Evening, Duck Amuck, and What's Opera, Doc?-with some of the wittiest insights into the art of comedy since Mark Twain.

Author Biography

Chuck Jones is an Academy Award winner and the creator of classic cartoon characters such as Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. He lives and works in Costa Mesa, California.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. 4
Foreword	p. 6
Caveat Emptor	p. 10
Johnson and the Birth of a Notion	p. 12
Uncle Lynn's Stubborn Liver: Comic Tales and Comic Stars	p. 24
How to Become an Animator	p. 40
A Few Hours' Incursion into a Rabbit Factory	p. 58
The Front Office	p. 86
The Directors: Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, and How I Grew	p. 96
The Writers: The Slum Kid, the Scion, and Me	p. 106
Duck Dodgers: A Case History--Story Through Animation	p. 142
Rabbit Transit	p. 192
Never Take a Right Turn at Albuquerque	p. 216
The Birth in Me of a Daffy Duckling	p. 232
Teddy and Charlie	p. 244
How to Make a Tennis Shoe for a Percheron	p. 252
Appendix	p. 268
Remembering Dorothy Webster Jones	p. 294
Filmography	p. 295
Major Characters	p. 302
Early Animation	p. 303
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