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Jones, Artist) Chuck (Author : CHUCK JONES: THE DREAM THAT NEVER WAS

Library of American Comics, 2011

ISBN 9781613770306

We all harbor a secret wish that we could find a previously unseen project by one of the greatest figures in animation history. Well, wish no more -- celebrating the 2012 centennial of Chuck Jones's birth, IDW's Library of Am erican Comics unveils Chuck Jones: The Dream That Never Was! The Academy Award-winning director of "Duck Amuck," "What's Opera, Doc," "H ow The Grinch Stole Christmas," and other timeless classics, created dozens of cartoon characters throughout his decades-long career: Pepé Le Pew, Mar vin the Martian, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote...and Crawford, an accident prone, nine-year-old boy whose daily routine includes surviving his own bo yhood. Chuck Jones: The Dream That Never Was follows the twenty- seven year journey it took Jones to bring Crawford to the public, from conception to storyboa rd to newspaper strip. This incredible volume is loaded with never-before-s een sketches, drawings, storyboards, and production notes, and the six-mont h run of the Crawford newspaper comic strip from 1978. Accompanying the art work is a biography of Chuck Jones's career in the sixties and seventies an d how it influenced the creation of Chuck's only foray into the world of co mic strips. Produced with the full coöperation of the Chuck Jones family, the book was conceived by Kurtis Findlay, who says, "My first surprise when I started re searching the Crawford comic strip was how little people knew about it. My second surprise was the treasure trove of Chuck Jones art we would find. Cr awford just kept popping up in places I didn't expect, making the history o f this little-known character incredibly rich." Animation Magazin, Very Good/Very Good

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