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...and when the big one hits, all the land to the east of the fault will slide off into the Atlantic...

Why yes it is - but if you'd RTFA you'd realize that the retroNebulas nomination is specifically for the award-winning cartoon first done by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese, two titans of humour.

The current Duck Dodgers is nothing but Waner Brothers sliding down the same whorish slope Disney has blazed.

In my opinion, amazement is the last thing you should look for in animation. To quote Chuck Jones, great art is composed of lots of love and sweat; the audience should see all the love and none of the sweat. Too often it's the other way around.

Everyone should go and buy a copy of his autobiography, Chuck Amuck. Get a copy of it and read it. It will make you smile as you think back on his life.

Not necessarily true. At the Chuck Jones gallery here in Santa Fe, NM (about 50 miles North of Albuquerque, a left turn if you are going East ;), Chuck re-created many of the original animation cells and is selling them. Here is his website chuckjones.com. I'm not sure how the copyright works, but it would appear that he either had permission or owns the characters images because there are a TON of them there.

in addition to Bugs and Daffy, he was also responsible for "Michigan J. Frog" (the WB frog, "every bodys doin' the Michigan raaaaaaaaag").

Truly a unique individual who saw the world just a little bit differently from everyone else. He will be missed.

I think it's all that more important to write now. Here's the link.

I think it's all that more important to write now. Here's the link.

Hmm, no one else seems to have mentioned this one...

On his official site, it looks like there is mentioned a Chuck Jones Foundation

"...to recognize, reward, support, and inspire continued excellence in the field of classic animation. The Foundation awards an annual Student Excellence Scholarship to a student whose work shows great potential in advancing and expanding the character animation medium."

(In case of /. effect)

Send your tax deductible checks to:
The Chuck Jones Foundation
17771 Mitchell
Irvine CA 92614
(949)660-7791

Hmm, no one else seems to have mentioned this one...

On his official site, it looks like there is mentioned a Chuck Jones Foundation

"...to recognize, reward, support, and inspire continued excellence in the field of classic animation. The Foundation awards an annual Student Excellence Scholarship to a student whose work shows great potential in advancing and expanding the character animation medium."

(In case of /. effect)

Send your tax deductible checks to:
The Chuck Jones Foundation
17771 Mitchell
Irvine CA 92614
(949)660-7791

In truth, Warner Bros. was lazy and let a significant amount of cartoons slip into the public domain. Some of them they intentionally did not renew because they are considered racially insensitive and WB no longer wanted to be associated with them. Further muddying the waters, is the fact that MGM wound up with the classic "Golden Age" 30-40's ones, while WB only retains ownership of the slicker, later ones 50's-60's.

Jones himself was smart enough to start his own production company, and did make money selling images (cels and retreads) of the cartoons he had previously created. It would take WB another decade or two to catch on to that one.

So, we have a case where the company in charge sold or last half of the pertinent copyrights, and then was late to the table to remarket what remained. Not every company is the exploitation machine that Disney is.

Check out Dave Mackey's WB cartoon filmography. It's the first WB cartoon-related website to have a blurb. I'd expect something from chuckjones.com and WB/looney tunes soon, though.

Another sad day, but oh, what memories.

If you check the official Chuck Jones website, right-click has been "disabled" with a javascript warning that his site is protected by copyrights.

Never quite figured why people do this. First, a local copy is saved of everything you view on the page, so you can just go into your temporary internet folder and grab them. Second, this can get you the information you need about the files.

You can't really say that Chuck didn't know about this on his site. He may have even asked for it to be there, or seen it and asked it to remain.

But alas, rest in peace Chuck.

Chuck Jones had an excellent wit, which you can experience in his two hilarious and informative biographies, Chuck Amuck and Chuck Reducks . His writing is dry and Mark-Twainish, with personal touches that never get *too* personal.

His recent work (he was creating Shockwave cartoons of "Thomas Timberwolf" up to this month!) is available linked from his own website.

Anyway, enough karmawhoring, I am writing this with tears in my eyes. So long and that's all folks to my last American hero.

"Well whaddya expect in an Opera? A happy ending?"

Chuck Jones had an excellent wit, which you can experience in his two hilarious and informative biographies, Chuck Amuck and Chuck Reducks . His writing is dry and Mark-Twainish, with personal touches that never get *too* personal.

His recent work (he was creating Shockwave cartoons of "Thomas Timberwolf" up to this month!) is available linked from his own website.

Anyway, enough karmawhoring, I am writing this with tears in my eyes. So long and that's all folks to my last American hero.

"Well whaddya expect in an Opera? A happy ending?"