Academy Award winning animator Chuck Jones looks back on his life and career, and explains how he and his fellow animators created cartoon characters

Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

Chuck Jones

Humor & Entertainment

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The director of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Road Runner cartoons discusses his childhood influences, gives advice on how to draw, and reveals how his characters were created

Chuck Reducks: Drawing from the Fun Side of Life

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

A backward skunk, whose stripe is on his front instead of his back, tries to correct the situation so the other animals will know who he is.

William the Backwards Skunk

Children's Books

Crown

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<li>We all harbor a secret wish that we could find a previously unseen project by one of the greatest figures in animation history. Well, wish no more — celebrating the 2012 centennial of Chuck Jones's birth, IDW's Library of American Comics unveils Chuck Jones: The Dream That Never Was!</li> <li>The Academy Award-winning director of "Duck Amuck," "What's Opera, Doc," "How The Grinch Stole Christmas," and other timeless classics, created dozens of cartoon characters throughout his decades-long career: Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote...and Crawford, an accident prone, nine-year-old boy whose daily routine includes surviving his own boyhood. Chuck Jones: The Dream That Never Was follows the twenty-seven year journey it took Jones to bring Crawford to the public, from conception to storyboard to newspaper strip. This incredible volume is loaded with never-before-seen sketches, drawings, storyboards, and production notes, and the six-month run of the Crawford newspaper comic strip from 1978. Accompanying the artwork is a biography of Chuck Jones's career in the sixties and seventies and how it influenced the creation of Chuck's only foray into the world of comic strips</li> <li>Animation Magazine calls Chuck Jones: The Dream that Never Was one of the "10 Essential Books for Animation Students".</li>
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Chuck Jones: The Dream that Never Was

Graphic Design

IDW Publishing

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