"A small child once said to me. 'You don't draw Bugs Bunny, you draw pictures of Bugs Bunny.' . -Chuck Jones. Animation artist Chuck Jones helped bring to life many characters during the Golden Age... Read full biography
"A small child once said to me. 'You don't draw Bugs Bunny, you draw pictures of Bugs Bunny.' . -Chuck Jones. Animation artist Chuck Jones helped bring to life many characters during the Golden Age of animation, including some of Warner Bros. most famous Looney Tunes characters, Bugs Bunny, Daffy... Read full biography
"A small child once said to me. 'You don't draw Bugs Bunny, you draw pictures of Bugs Bunny.' . -Chuck Jones. Animation artist Chuck Jones helped bring to life many characters during the Golden Age of animation, including some of Warner Bros. most famous Looney Tunes characters, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig. The list of characters he created himself goes on to Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, and many others. Born in 1912 in Spokane, Washington, Jones grew up in... Read full biography
"A small child once said to me. 'You don't draw Bugs Bunny, you draw pictures of Bugs Bunny.' . -Chuck Jones. Animation artist Chuck Jones helped bring to life many characters during the Golden Age of animation, including some of Warner Bros. most famous Looney Tunes characters, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig. The list of characters he created himself goes on to Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, and many others. Born in 1912 in Spokane, Washington, Jones grew up in Hollywood where he witnessed the talents of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and worked occasionally as a child extra in Mac Sennett comedies. He graduated from Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, (now California Institute of the Arts), and began... Read full biography
"A small child once said to me. 'You don't draw Bugs Bunny, you draw pictures of Bugs Bunny.' . -Chuck Jones. Animation artist Chuck Jones helped bring to life many characters during the Golden Age of animation, including some of Warner Bros. most famous Looney Tunes characters, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig. The list of characters he created himself goes on to Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, and many others. Born in 1912 in Spokane, Washington, Jones grew up in Hollywood where he witnessed the talents of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and worked occasionally as a child extra in Mac Sennett comedies. He graduated from Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, (now California Institute of the Arts), and began drawing pencil portraits for a dollar a piece on Olvera Street. In 1932, he got his first job in the fledgling animation industry as a... Read full biography
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About Chuck Jones: Books
Books & Publications (6)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture
2009
Wells, Paul
223 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957
2002
Smoodin, Eric Loren and Ann Martin, Editors
394 pages
Masters of Animation
2001
Grant, John
208 pages (color)
The Encyclopedia of American Comics From 1897 to the Present