R.I.P. Chuck Jones

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 2:01 pm

For those who are fans of classic cartoons. Chucj Jones died today. He was famous for his work for Warner Brothers, animating Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and his creation of the Roadrunner, Coyote Pepe Le Pew and Marvin the Martian among others.
RIP Chuck

VoodooDali · Post by **VoodooDali** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 2:42 pm

How sad!!!

I still have a picture of myself sitting on his lap. I met him at an art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Really nice man--and he was close to 80 y.o. then (10 years ago?). He looked much younger than his age--I think from being able to do something he loved all his life.

My favorite cartoon is that weird one with Daffy Duck where the artist keeps messing with him and changing his body around.

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 4:03 pm

I like that one too Voodoo

I love the opera spoofs..The Barber of Seville and "What's opera Doc?" (the Wagnerian saga)

I also like the Pepe Le Pew where the cat he's chasing gets a cold and starts chasing him

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 4:07 pm

I just heard this from of all places, the OPERA-L list. He was a fantastic animator with a keen sense of humor and a fine eye for style. IMO, he and Tex Avery literally defined the quality of Warner Bros. cartoons over a roughly 30 year period--others were good, but these two made the works that everybody keeps wanting to see, again. Avery died before the cartoon was realized for the artform it is. At least Jones lived through it, and got the applause he richly deserved.

ThorinOakensfield · Post by **ThorinOakensfield** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 4:18 pm

Oh man. How sad. I loved Bugs Bunny and the other looney toons. I've seen so many episodes of Bugs Bunny and the rest of the group.
He was great. Bugs Bunny is one of my favorite cartoons(if not my most favored).

BTW was Charles Jones, Chuck's dad or something?

RIP in Chuck.

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 4:50 pm

Same person Thorin, the credits at the end of cartoons referred to Charles, but interviews and such he was addressed as Chuck

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 8:15 pm

Originally posted by VoodooDali
My favorite cartoon is that weird one with Daffy Duck where the artist keeps messing with him and changing his body around.

Ah! The celebrated "Duck Amok" epsiode. A classic. My favourite was "Robin Hood Daffy".

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 9:00 pm

I think I liked best his road runner routines--but also a weird little cartoon which used a rhyming text based on the Three Little Pigs, but treating them as a small jazz combo to trying to avoid the Big Bad Wolf, an extremely corny trumpeter. The script was by a little known Stan Freeburg, then at the beginning of his great career.

Curdis · Post by **Curdis** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 9:56 pm

There was a documentary on him (shown here in Australia only about three weeks ago) that highlighted all of the novel cartooning techniques he introduced. I always liked the finished product but never realised that there was so much innovation in the technique.

Sorry to hear 'That's all folks' for Chuck.