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Chuck Jones from A to Z-z-z-z: Cartoons from 1938-1967
"One Froggy Evening," "Duck Amuck," and "What's Opera, Doc?" are only a handful of the witty and masterful cartoons Chuck Jones made in his wonderful career working with characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, the Coyote & Roadrunner, Pepe Le Pew, Sam Sheepdog & Ralph Wolf, Sniffles the Mouse, and Tom & Jerry.
"Chuck Jones from A to Z-z-z-z" looks at each of Jones' cartoons from "The Night Watchman" at Warners in 1938 to "The Bear That Wasn't" at MGM in 1967. Besides these famous and popular theatrical cartoons, this book also covers the Private Snafu cartoons that Jones made for the Army in World War II as well as other rare non-commercial cartoons.
"Chuck Jones from A to Z-z-z-z" looks at each of Jones' cartoons from "The Night Watchman" at Warners in 1938 to "The Bear That Wasn't" at MGM in 1967. Besides these famous and popular theatrical cartoons, this book also covers the Private Snafu cartoons that Jones made for the Army in World War II as well as other rare non-commercial cartoons.
618 pages, Paperback
Published August 16, 2022
About the author
Michael Samerdyke
66 books19 followersI was born in Cleveland, Ohio and currently reside in southwest Virginia. I've always been attracted to the fantastic, particularly, but not always horror.
In the grim year of 2020 I published "Wascally Wabbit," a history of Bugs Bunny, and "Guess Who?" a history of Woody Woodpecker. Both cartoon giants turn 80 in 2020..
Among my non-fiction books are "Horror Cavalcade," a two-volume work that covers the best horror movies and radio and TV episodes of the 20th Century. ""Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills," is a history of "Suspense," a CBS radio drama that ran from 1942 to 1962 and adapted stories by Cornell Woolrich and Ray Bradbury, and starred performers such as Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, and William Conrad.
My fiction books include two trilogies. First there is the "Dr. Kino" trilogy (The Dream Cabinet of Dr. Kino, Featured Creatures, and The Curse of Dr. Kino) which are horror.
The Tales of Kurgania trilogy is set in Kurgania, an imaginary, vampire and werewolf-haunted East Central European country. The trilogy begins with "Land Beneath the Shadows," which covers the era from the death of Attila the Hun to the fall of Communism. "Lost Shadows" is a collection of stories 'based' on the Kurganian movies of the Interwar era. The third book, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," looks at how the legends and memories of Kurgania affect a writer today.
Outside the horror genre, my novel "The Adventures of Captain Starburst" deals with a teenager in the 1970s who gets superpowers and learns that they don't solve his problems.
In the grim year of 2020 I published "Wascally Wabbit," a history of Bugs Bunny, and "Guess Who?" a history of Woody Woodpecker. Both cartoon giants turn 80 in 2020..
Among my non-fiction books are "Horror Cavalcade," a two-volume work that covers the best horror movies and radio and TV episodes of the 20th Century. ""Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills," is a history of "Suspense," a CBS radio drama that ran from 1942 to 1962 and adapted stories by Cornell Woolrich and Ray Bradbury, and starred performers such as Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, and William Conrad.
My fiction books include two trilogies. First there is the "Dr. Kino" trilogy (The Dream Cabinet of Dr. Kino, Featured Creatures, and The Curse of Dr. Kino) which are horror.
The Tales of Kurgania trilogy is set in Kurgania, an imaginary, vampire and werewolf-haunted East Central European country. The trilogy begins with "Land Beneath the Shadows," which covers the era from the death of Attila the Hun to the fall of Communism. "Lost Shadows" is a collection of stories 'based' on the Kurganian movies of the Interwar era. The third book, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," looks at how the legends and memories of Kurgania affect a writer today.
Outside the horror genre, my novel "The Adventures of Captain Starburst" deals with a teenager in the 1970s who gets superpowers and learns that they don't solve his problems.
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September 2, 2024
Blast from the past
There’s never been, and I’d bet never will be, another study in such depth of the cartoons of Chuck Jones. It’s light on biographical stuff but every cartoon the man created over three decades is detailed, twice—once in a chronology from the Road Runner and Coyote to Tweety and Sylvester to Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and more, including how one work may have influenced or been influenced by others, and again with more data in an alphabetical appendix. It’s as much fun to read and reminisce about them as it once was to watch them. For fans of cartoons or Chuck Jones, this is simply a treasure.
There’s never been, and I’d bet never will be, another study in such depth of the cartoons of Chuck Jones. It’s light on biographical stuff but every cartoon the man created over three decades is detailed, twice—once in a chronology from the Road Runner and Coyote to Tweety and Sylvester to Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and more, including how one work may have influenced or been influenced by others, and again with more data in an alphabetical appendix. It’s as much fun to read and reminisce about them as it once was to watch them. For fans of cartoons or Chuck Jones, this is simply a treasure.
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