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Mourning in Toontown
Feb. 24th, 2002 10:54 pm
Chuck Jones is dead at 89.
I just ... I can't come up with anything else to say. If you recognize the name, you already know why this hurts; you already know that Chuck Jones is one of the major deities of the animation pantheon, one of the most talented and influential men in the field. This is the man who set one of the cornerstones of Toontown -- and left a box containing a singing frog inside it....
If you don't know all this already, I'm don't think I can explain why it feels like such a great and personal loss.
I never met the man. But I never met Jim Henson either, nor Charles Schultz, nor Robert Heinlein ... nor that other god of Toontown, Mel Blanc.
And it hurts to know they're gone.
God bless you, Mr. Jones. You always left us laughing.
I just ... I can't come up with anything else to say. If you recognize the name, you already know why this hurts; you already know that Chuck Jones is one of the major deities of the animation pantheon, one of the most talented and influential men in the field. This is the man who set one of the cornerstones of Toontown -- and left a box containing a singing frog inside it....
If you don't know all this already, I'm don't think I can explain why it feels like such a great and personal loss.
I never met the man. But I never met Jim Henson either, nor Charles Schultz, nor Robert Heinlein ... nor that other god of Toontown, Mel Blanc.
And it hurts to know they're gone.
God bless you, Mr. Jones. You always left us laughing.
