WILE E COYOTE SERIES

We are talking about Clough's father as a major retrospective of his work, What's Up, Doc? The Animation of Chuck Jones, opens at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York before moving on to multiple cities in the U.S.

It seems to me that the reason the cartoon's so enduring and strikes so many people: that feeling of 'I've got to have this thing! And I really can't justify why I need this so much, but I do.'' Obviously there are many other things that he could eat, and yet he cannot give up the idea of this one thing. 'That's the Coyote to a T he is an obsessive-compulsive. 'Chuck found a Santayana quote you may have seen: 'A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he's forgotten his aim,'' says Jones's daughter, Linda Jones Clough. The look of the cartoons is timeless, and so, it seems, is their appeal. cartoons that began in 1948 and petered out in the 1960s, after Jones had stopped directing them.

WILE E COYOTE SERIES

Coyote, who wants beyond all reason to consume the Road Runner and attempted to do so in a series of Warner Bros. It was that irrational, almost mythical beast that inspired Jones's signature character, Wile E. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless.…' 'The coyote is a living, breathing allegory of Want,' wrote Twain. 'I first became interested in the coyote while devouring Mark Twain's Roughing It at the age of 7,' the animator recalled in his autobiography, Chuck Amuck. Not the wolf-like creature ( canus latrans) that has roamed the wilds of North America for millions of years and is now sometimes spotted in urban environments as diverse as Chicago and San Francisco, but the coyote-as-symbol that Chuck Jones crashed into as a child.

Wile e coyote