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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, Pepé 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.… (more)
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The book is filled with page after page of sketches in the margins of the text where he shares not only his story, but glimpses behind the scenes of animation. From storyboarding to the writers and designers and background artists, the music and overall production, there are great things to be learned here.
He ended this book with a perfect anecdote: Perhaps the most accurate remark about me was uttered by Ray Bradbury at his fifty-fifth birthday party. In answer to the usual question: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Ray replied: "I want to be fourteen years old like Chuck Jones."
Perhaps this will be my most apt possible epitaph.
I think I'd like to grow up to be fourteen years old like Chuck. He was a rare one.