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Chuck Jones: Conversations (Conversations With Comic Artists Series)

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I highly recommend this book, and not just because I'm in it. (I highly easily finagled a telephone interview with Chuck Jones in 1988--not the greatest interview in the book, but surely one of the highlights of my life.)

If you're a fan of the legendary animation director, this book is the Holy Grail of interview books. It includes interviews by Richard Thompson and Greg Ford (who later did his own Looney Tunes cartoon, THE DUXORCIST) from Film Comment's legendary 1975 issue devoted to animation; an interview by film-buff supreme Joe Adamson (who also did his own Bugs Bunny cartoon, A POLITICAL CARTOON--geez, when do I get to do *my* Looney Tunes??); and several other great and extensive interviews with the master. An invaluable look into the mind of one of the great popular artists of our time.

Here are the list of authors that appear in this book:

The Fantasy Makers: A Conversation with Ray Bradbury and Chuck Jones
Mary Harrington Hall/1968
From Psychology Today, April 1968

An Interview with Chuck Jones
Michael Barrier and Bill Spicer/1969
From Funnyworld 13, 1971

Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats: An Interview with Chuck Jones
Joe Adamson/1971
Combined interviews from March and December 1971, partly published in edited form within Gerald Peary and Danny Peary, The American Animated Cartoon (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980)

Chuck Jones
Greg Ford and Richard Thompson/1972
From Film Comment, January/February 1975

The Art of Chuck Jones
John Lewell/1982
From Films and Filming 336, September 1982

Live from Trumps
Charles Solomon/1985
Radio broadcast, KUSC-FM, April 16, 1985

Interview with Chuck Jones, 1988
Steven Bailey/1988

Chuck Jones and the Daffy World of Cartoons: The Warner's Legend Remembering the Glory Days in an Animated Autobiography
Tom Shales/1989
From The Washington Post, November 26, 1989

Chuck Jones: Animation Pioneer
Academy of Achievement/1993
From the Academy of Achievement website, online at http://www.achievement.org

Interview with Chuck Jones
Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps/1996
From the "Mark & Brian" radio show, KLOS-FM, April 1996

The Inner Daffy: Chuck Jones and the Creative Process
Jo Jürgens/1996

Chuck Jones
Stephen Thompson/1998
From The Onion, online at http://www.theonionavclub.com

Chuck Jones, in his own words
Ron Barbagallo/1999