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by: Joe Adamson  Price: $59.95 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4302330924 EAN: 9780306802485 ISBN: 0306802481 Label: Da Capo Press Manufacturer: Da Capo Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 237 Publication Date: 1985-08 Publisher: Da Capo Press Studio: Da Capo Press Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A poor buyThis 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 ... Read More Rating:  - A grand, classic tribute to the great gagman of animationWritten 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 ... Read More 
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