title: Chuck Reducks: Drawing from the Fun Side of Life
author:  Chuck Jones 
description: Now 84, Jones (Chuck Amuck) has been an animator and a director of animated features for more than 60 years and has created such cartoon figures as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote and Pepe le Pew. He also worked with Dr. Seuss on TV versions of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Horton Hears a Who, in the course of a career during which he made more than 250 films and won three Oscars. Jones's advice here on how to draw and, more specifically, how to draw animals engaging in various activities will prove valuable to aspiring artists; and his portraits of people he has known?from his captivating Uncle Lynn with his surrealistic view of the world to the monsters who ran the Warner Brothers animation department in the 1930s and '40s?are memorable. The book also includes sidebars with quotes, some by Jones himself and others by writers from Thurber to Emerson. There's some filler here, notably pointless lists of unused titles for innumerable shorts and analyses of numerous minor cartoon characters, but Jones, an American original, is good company?if not quite as engaging as his wascally wabbit. Illustrations not seen by PW. <br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  To hear Cecil tell it, it weren't more than a couple years back. But
  
  
  little Chuck's grown up, and big Chuck and Mrs. Peters ain't half as
  
  
  spry as they used to be. It was a little while before you came, back
  
  
  when the Tompkins were still living in your all's place. Little Chuck
  
  
  was only a little guy back then, and big Chuck was still working with
  
  
  the saw mill's gang.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  You know that old dirt road just down around the corner? Well, there
  
  
  used to be an old labor camp where the pickers used to stay in the
  
  
  fall. That had been all grown over for some time, and Chuck used to
  
  
  get his firewood there. Little Chuck wer