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...master of sprung rhythm, he could pack a half-dozen insights into a 100-word sentence on Chuck Jones and the Warner cartoon crew - "Despite the various positions on humor (Tex Avery is a visual surrealist proving nothing is permanent, McKimson is a show-biz satirist with throw-away gags and celebrity spoofs, Friz Freleng is the least contorting, while Jones's specialty, comic character, is unusual for the chopping-up of motion and the surreal imposition: a Robin Hood duck, whose flattened beak springs out with each repeated faux pas as a reminder of the importance of his primary...
...sorry that your review of new animation and cartoon books [SHOW BUSINESS, May 19] failed to mention my father Robert McKimson, who was with Warner Bros. Cartoons studio as an animator and director from 1931 until it closed in 1963. He directed 175 cartoons and created the Tasmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester Jr. and the original Speedy Gonzales. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and was credited in 1944 by the Library of Congress as the author-artist of Bugs Bunny. The books you covered in this article did little to expose the artistic talent that was part...
...spent in their company, it takes a stern suspension of belief to remember that these star actors were born and raised in the genially warped minds of a cell of young cartoonists 40 and 50 years ago. Of the six major Warner's directors--Jones, Isadore ("Friz") Freleng, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, Fred ("Tex") Avery and Frank Tashlin--the first three spanned virtually the entire life of the shop, from the early or mid-30s until it was closed in 1963. In 1937 Warner's hired Mel Blanc, the man of a thousand funny voices, most of them sounding like...
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