The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons - Hardcover

by Jerry Beck (Author), Leonard Maltin (Foreword by)

Celebrate the best of Looney Tunes cartoons, just in time for Bugs Bunny's 80th birthday!

In a world of rascally rabbits, megalomaniacal ducks, and stuttering pigs, what defines greatness? This question was posed to thousands of cartoon fans, historians, and animators to create The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons, the definitive Looney Tunes collection. Jerry Beck and the Cartoon Brew team of animation experts reveal the amusing anecdotes and secret origins behind such classics as "What's Opera, Doc?," "One Froggy Evening," and "Duck Dodgers in the 241/2th Century." Featuring more than 300 pieces of original art from private collectors and the Warner Bros. archives, The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons settles the debate on the best of the best, and poses a new question: Is your favorite one of the greatest?

Author Biography

Jerry Beck is the author of over fifteen books on animation history. He writes about classic cartoon characters at CartoonResearch.com and blogs about modern animation at AnimationScoop.com. A former studio executive with Nickelodeon Movies and Disney TV, Beck currently teaches animation history at Woodbury University in Burbank, CA, where he lives.

Leonard Maltin is a respected film historian, critic, and animation expert who appears regularly on Entertainment Tonight and hosts Secret's Out on Reelz Channel. He lives in Los Angeles.