Chuck Jones: Original Cartoon Heroes
Chuck Jones might just be, after Disney, Hanna and Barbera, the world’s most famous and respected animated cartoonist. So who better to get a Frederator limited edition postcard?
Chuck created characters through the late 1940s and the 1950s, which include Claude Cat, Marc Antony and Pussyfoot, Charlie Dog, Michigan J. Frog, and his four most popular creations, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner. And add to those originals the Bugs, Daffys, Porkys, Toms, Jerrys and Grinches.
Jones was nominated for eight Oscars, winning three times (Disney: 25, Hanna & Barbera: 7). And, to my mind, he was certainly the most intellectually expansive of the highly commercial animators of the first Golden Age. In Jerry Beck’s The 50 Greatest Cartoons, ten of the entries were directed by Jones, with four out of the five top cartoons being Jones shorts.
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From the postcard back:
Congratulations!
You are one of 300 people
to receive this limited edition
Frederator postcard!Frederator presents
Original Cartoon Heroes
Chuck JonesSeries 46.4 [mailed out October 18, 2018]
Illustration by Jeaux Janovsky
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