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    Who Was Chuck Jones?
    Who Was Chuck Jones?
    Who Was Chuck Jones?
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    Who Was Chuck Jones?

    By Jim Gigliotti, Who HQ and John Hinderliter

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    "What's Up, Doc?" Find out in this lively biography of the most celebrated director in animation history!

    Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of  many classic animated cartoon shorts. They starred Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig and a slew of other Warner Brothers characters. When he moved  on to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, his work includes a  series of Tom and Jerry shorts as well as the  television adaptation of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  

    Jones was nominated for eight Academy Awards, won three, and received an honorary Oscar for his work in the animation industry. His career spanned almost seventy years, during which he made over 250 animated films, including What's Opera, Doc?, a classic Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd short that is considered to be one of the greatest cartoons of all time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9781524786571
    Who Was Chuck Jones?
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    Jim Gigliotti

    Jim Gigliotti is the former editor at the National Football League who now is a freelance writer based in southern California. He is a lifelong San Francisco Giants fan.

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      Who Was Chuck Jones? - Jim Gigliotti

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      For Joycelyn, because you’re so wovewy—JG

      For Nathan, because a creative life is the best life—JH

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      ISBN 9780448488578 (paperback)

      ISBN 9780515159172 (library binding)

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      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Who Was Chuck Jones?

      Growing Up in California

      On to Art School

      The Working World

      What’s Up, Doc?

      The Bugs Bunny in Me

      Beep! Beep!

      Beyond Warner Bros.

      From Hare to Eternity

      Timelines

      Bibliography

      Who Was Chuck Jones?

      Chuck Jones was eight years old and living in Ocean Park, California, when a stray cat named Johnson walked up the sand to his back doorstep one summer day in 1921.

      Chuck had never seen the skinny, short-haired cat before. He called him Johnson, because that was the name written on a small, wooden tag around the cat’s neck. Chuck liked Johnson, and Johnson liked Chuck. So Johnson decided—as anyone with a cat knows, it was Johnson’s idea—to stay with the Jones family for a little while.

      Chuck laughed when Johnson would bat a grapefruit into a corner of the house, trapping it so he could bite into it and get at the juicy inside. And he laughed when Johnson would jump into the ocean and climb onto the shoulders of an unsuspecting swimmer. And when Johnson, covered

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