Tex Avery: King of Cartoons (Da Capo Paperback)

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Summary: Fantastic Look at One Of the Greatest Figures in Animation
Review: "Tex Avery: King Of Cartoons" is a unique look into the world of Tex Avery. Adamson opens the book with a fun to read analysis of Avery's cartoons and their background. Then comes the best part; interviews with Heck Allen, Mike Maltese, and Avery himself. They give an in-depth and very funny account of everyday activities at Termite Terrace. This book is essential for its vast amount of information. A good buy; highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Fantastic Look at One Of the Greatest Figures in Animation
Review: "Tex Avery: King Of Cartoons" is a unique look into the world of Tex Avery. Adamson opens the book with a fun to read analysis of Avery's cartoons and their background. Then comes the best part; interviews with Heck Allen, Mike Maltese, and Avery himself. They give an in-depth and very funny account of everyday activities at Termite Terrace. This book is essential for its vast amount of information. A good buy; highly recommended.

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Summary: A poor buy
Review: This book is worthless because :
- it offers little insight into Avery's genius
- it's short on the man's biography
- it focuses too much on the cartoons
- a large portion of it is made up of interviews with Avery and others; it's easy to write books that way, using text that's already written
- every picture is in black and white; not a single one in colour; would you like to watch Avery's cartoons in b & w ?
- it is printed on mediocre paper; when you're reading a page you are very much aware of the pictures printed on the other side of the page
- it's grossly overpriced

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Summary: A grand, classic tribute to the great gagman of animation
Review: Written more than a decade before "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" made it okay for adults to enjoy animated cartoons, Joe Adamson's labor-of-love tribute to cartoon pioneer Tex Avery is a must-have for any scholar of animation. Containing perhaps the only extensive interview with Tex Avery before his death before 1980, the book looks back on the illustrious career of a shy, quiet man whose only ambition was to make people laugh. Walt Disney and Chuck Jones are the two most famous names of the Golden Age of cartoons, but they both owe a debt to Tex Avery. In addition to the personal look at Avery's life, the book contains a complete filmography of Avery's theatrical cartoons, plus interviews with the people Tex worked with over the years. While the 1996 book "Tex Avery" by John Canemaker provided a look at the more tragic side of Avery's career (as well as a wealth of background and behind-the-scenes material), Adamson's book is still the definitive look at the fun-loving, innocent personality of the creator of Droopy Dog, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the man who broke the shackles of "realism" in animation by declaring, "In a cartoon you can do anything!"

Rating:
Summary: A grand, classic tribute to the great gagman of animation
Review: Written more than a decade before "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" made it okay for adults to enjoy animated cartoons, Joe Adamson's labor-of-love tribute to cartoon pioneer Tex Avery is a must-have for any scholar of animation. Containing perhaps the only extensive interview with Tex Avery before his death before 1980, the book looks back on the illustrious career of a shy, quiet man whose only ambition was to make people laugh. Walt Disney and Chuck Jones are the two most famous names of the Golden Age of cartoons, but they both owe a debt to Tex Avery. In addition to the personal look at Avery's life, the book contains a complete filmography of Avery's theatrical cartoons, plus interviews with the people Tex worked with over the years. While the 1996 book "Tex Avery" by John Canemaker provided a look at the more tragic side of Avery's career (as well as a wealth of background and behind-the-scenes material), Adamson's book is still the definitive look at the fun-loving, innocent personality of the creator of Droopy Dog, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the man who broke the shackles of "realism" in animation by declaring, "In a cartoon you can do anything!"