Tuesday, June 20, 2006

about Chuck Jones - The great Cartoonist

Winner of three Academy Awards for his animatedfilms and a fourth Oscar for Lifetime achievement, Chuck Jones directed Warner Bros.' greatest stars and kept audiences laughing all over the globe formore than sixty years.

He is one of the five fathers of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd

Prsonally created the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pepe le Pew, Marvin Martian, Gossamer, Michigan J. Frog, Hubie & Bertie, Junyer Bear of the Three Bears, Witch Hazel, Hugo, Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog.

He also directed Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears a Who, The Dot and the Line, The Phantom Tollbooth, A Cricket in Times Square, Kipling’s Rikki Tikki Tavi, The White Seal, and Mowgli’s Brothers to name just a few.

Along with Winsor McCay .(creator of the first cartoon) and Walt Disney, Chuck Jones was the first inductee into the Animation Hall of Fame.

And he is the most famous and most collected animation artist in history.

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