Tag: Chuck Jones

Aw, Paaaa!

More love for the style of Chuck Jones.  Here are some frames from his Three Bears toon “A Bear for Punishment”, plus a toss away design for a…

101st Hare Born

Ok, he’s not a paratrooper, but in “Forward March Hare” (1953), Bugs does mistakingly get drafted into the army. I did a post earlier about the Chuck Jones…

Ah-ten-HARE!

The debate over the drill sergeant’s use of vocabulary aside, the short “Forward March Hare” (1952)  is another class in design from Chuck Jones. I rarely see this…

What form, what grace… what a cop out

“Beep,Beep” (1952) is an all time favorite short, & considering a large chunk of it is an animation cheat, should have earned it an award for ingenuity. To…

Finster!

“Baby Buggy Bunny” (1954) is a classic, with Chuck Jones is hitting on all cylinders in it. The violent baby shaking scene would be disturbing if you didn’t…

Yer cruising’ for a bruin!

The Looney Tunes with the three bears were always a love hate for me as a kid. I enjoyed them, but I always felt the Dad was a…

They stole the show, Chuck!

More toss away character designs from (mostly) Chuck Jones cartoons. The whole right side is from “Touché & Go” a Pepe cartoon from 1957. The opening characters are…

Oh, say it isn’t sambo, Bugs?!

Sadly, while watching these old shorts I have to put up with the unfortunate lack of sensitivity, be it veiled sexism or (worse) flat out racism. “Southern Fried…

All Hare the King!

Bugs Bunny is, without a doubt, the king of animated comedy; and that’s a hill I’ll die on. He’s not even my favorite character, but it’s a fact….

On Your Marc Anthony, Set, Go!

Chuck Jones seemed to love one design for a dog above all others, as he used it in multiple cartoons, across multiple studios. From Warner Bros. and MGM,…

Bow wow wow, yo yo yippee yea

I love the Looney Tunes shorts with the bulldog, Marc Anthony,  and the kitten, Pussyfoot, although I always assumed the cat was a girl, apparently it’s a boy….

It’s all in your head–

If you’re Ralph Phillips from the old Chuck Jones cartoons. A little something I did for my mom when we sent her some home made cookies, and Sherlock…