Chuck Reducks
by Chuck Jones
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The timeless masterpieces of animation director Chuck Jones have kept audiences laughing all over the globe for more than sixty years. The cartoon characters he has shaped and brought to life - Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner, the Grinch, and a memorable menagerie of others - have, like their creator, become indelible icons of American culture. Packed with entertaining anecdotes - encounters with Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney, life with such legends as Tex. Avery, Friz Freleng, Mel show more Blanc, and Carl Stalling in the bedlam conditions of Termite Terrace (the Warner Bros. Animation studio), and collaborations with the genial Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) - Chuck Reducks is an unforgettable tour inside the endlessly creative mind of one of America's greatest comedy directors. There are character-by-character portraits of Chuck's animated stars, with enough priceless gems to satisfy even Daffy's appetite: Why Bugs Bunny's face. had something in common with ice skater Sonja Henie's; Why there is something very peculiar about Marvin Martian's mouth and Witch Hazel's hairline; How inept management inspired Pepe le Pew; and did Michigan J. Frog (1957) inspire Steven Spielberg to name a certain adventure hero after a state and an admired animation director? Chuck Reducks also includes informative chronologies, illustrations detailing how characters are drawn and given movement, in-depth looks at. such masterpieces as What's Opera, Doc? and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and practical tips for tomorrow's animators. show lessTags
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Wow. Even better than Chuck Amuck! Much more substantial. In addition to more life stories, Jones details every major character and several specific films.
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Charles Martin Jones was born in 1912 in Spokane, Wash. and began his distinguished career in animation in 1932, as a cel washer at Ubbe Iwerks Studio. In 1936, he became an animator for Leon Schlesinger, later bought by Warner Brothers. He stayed with Warner Brothers until the studio closed in 1961; during his employment there, he was animator show more and director for such characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Marvin the Martian. He has been honored with four Academy awards and directed one of the most popular Christmas specials of all time, the Peabody award-winning Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966). His What's Opera, Doc? (1957), in which Bugs and Elmer Fudd do their own version of Wagner's Ring Cycle, was the first animated film to be included in the National Film Registry (1992). Chuck Jones is also the author, adapter, editor, and illustrator of several children's books, including Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1982) and William the Backwards Skunk (1987). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Chuck Reducks
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Chuck Jones; Daffy Duck
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to Liney Li, designer, who brought visual clarity out of the seventy-year accumulated clutter jungle of my sketches and doodles to CHUCK AMUCK and to this effort. and to editor Rick Ball, who scythed aw... (show all)ay the fat adjectives and bulbous adverbs of my verbosity and found a few sparks of lighting among the lightning bugs. I love you both. and to my godson, Oliver Martin Ball, concieved and published during the making of this curious tome.---- and to John McGrew and Maurice Noble who together pulled the dusty brown shades aside and thrust my head out the window into the world of color and light.
- First words
- The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Me.
- Blurbers
- Goldberg, Whoopi; Howard, Rob; Mallory, Michael; Herblock; Bradbury, Ray
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
- LCC
- NC1766 .U52 .J66 — Fine Arts Drawing. Design. Illustration Drawing. Design. Illustration Pictorial humor, caricature, etc.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1
