The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons Hardcover – July 6, 2010

The Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes original theatrical cartoon shorts produced and presented by Warner Bros. Pictures and the Vitaphone Corporation were originally the most wildly clever, the most irreverently hilarious, the most superbly original, and most especially the greatest cartoon series ever, EVER made in the history of animation, tracing back in the Golden Age of this series from 1930 with its very first Looney Tune short "Sinking in the Bathtub" (which also got the distinctive honor of being the VERY first Warner Bros' cartoon theatrical short, too!), all the way to the final WB theatrical cartoon short in 1969 entitled "Injun Trouble" which starred Cool Cat and was *also* the final Merrie Melodie short of the era.In this very, very SPECIAL collector's book entitled "The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons", it not only gives such extensive and outstandingly well-informative details on such unforgettable, fantastic-quality cartoon classics by WB that deserve their absolute place in pure animation history (as well as their one-shots, too!) as "What's Opera, Doc", "Birds Anonymous", "Duck Amuck", "Baby Bottleneck", "Three Little Bops", "One Froggy Evening", "Show Biz Bugs", "I Love to Singa", "Plane Daffy", "High Note", "Old Glory", "Ali Baba Bunny", "Robin Hood Daffy", "Baseball Bugs", "Porky in Wackyland", and especially "Duck Dodgers in the 24½ Century" and "From A to Z-z-z-z" as well, but also *quite* splendidly chronicles the grand, grand history of how the series' original characters -- like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Granny, Michigan J. Frog, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and even Ralph Phillips as well, for example -- were made vastly famous over the many decades through the sheer unadulterated brilliancy of how these famous cartoon shorts were executed and even spectacularly directed by such phenomenal talents as Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freling, Robert McKimson, and Arthur Davis. On that note, this is without a doubt the one book that should rather be a hugely sought-after collector's item for ALL cartoon fans period for years and even decades to come!!!Congratulations especially to the great Jerry Beck on such a tremendously, tremendously outstanding job in covering the top 100 of the Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes as well providing us with a lot of grand, humongously cherishable memories for all of us cartoon fans at heart -- especially those of us as well who first grew up in the movie theatre watching these 5- to 10-minute WB cartoon shorts that took place before a feature film started, too!!! ;)HUGELY, HUGELY, HUGELY RECOMMENDED for all cartoon lovers and historians everywhere around the globe, young and old... an unforgettably precious collector's item indeed for generations and generations to come!!! (^-^)v !!

For this aged baby - boomer who grew up watching and loving these cartoons this book is a perfect fit and gift. The Warner Brothers {WB} cartoons and their characters are {in my opinion} by far the best known, best loved and most entertaining cartoons of the golden age of Hollywood that not even Walt Disney cartoons can top !!. The 100 cartoons represented in this book are the like the cream from them skimmed right off the top. I couldn't quarrel or dispute any of the choices and I applauded and appreciated the informative, pithy narrative and comments allied to the excellent pictures. My favorite character "Yosemite Sam" was well represented but pride of place in the book goes to Bug Bunny, Tweedy, Slyvester and Daffy Duck whose comic personna's continually evolved to keep them fresh and up to date.The marvelous creative team of the WB cartoon department is beyond exemplar - cartoon directors Bob Clampett, Fritz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Arthur Davis and Robert Mckimson, music director Carl Stalling, the unique voices created by Mel Blanc, Bea Benadaret and June Foray {that always perfectly match the characters}, story lines by Frank Tashlin, Michael Maltese and Ted Pierce and all the other technicians and artists get well deserved kudos for their contributions that make these cartoons so entertaining and special. WB produced almost 1000 cartoons and it is astonishing that the cartoon department was able to keep the frantic pace, humor and creative energy at such a high level of excellence for almost 3 decades.Most of us have one particular favorite cartoon and mine is on page 112 - "Little Red Riding Rabbit" with Bugs, a cross dressing, dim-witted wolf and an obnoxious Bobby Soxer Red Riding Hood {unforgettably voiced by Bea Benadaret} with Red skreeching "HEY GRANDMA !!" one time too many galvanizing Bugs to take an 180 degree turn to settle with her "once and for all ". I love these cartoons, loved this book and I give it 5 stars - Highly recommended.

Jerry Beck surveyed animation fans and historians to come up with a list of the 'creme de la creme' of Looney Tunes -- the best 100 cartoons (out of over a thousand) released by Warner Brothers between 1930 and the mid-1960's. The results are printed in this beatifully produced (and eminently reasonably priced) book that any animation fan will want to own.I'm sure the comments area of this site will now have multiple discussion threads devoted to arguments over which cartoons should have been included but weren't (and I have some ideas of my own), but all of the 'tunes that made the cut are certainly worthy of a place in this book. The list even includes "Coal Black" .. a short that we will probably never get to see. Shorts are listed in alphabetical order, there was no attempt to rank the cartoons from 1 to 100.Following a couple of brief introductions, each cartoon gets its own two page spread. One page is devoted to stills from the cartoon (usually sharp and crisp; a few are rather fuzzy -- these seem to be from cartoons that have not been released on DVD and so haven't yet been restored), and the other to text. And that is the slightly disappointing part. A heading in large type, a brief quote from the short in almost-as-large type, a boxed sidebar with production information (director, voices, etc.), a summary of the plot, and then, from an animation expert or historian, a VERY brief discussion of some aspect of the film. I was really hoping for more in-depth discussions of the shorts; couldn't some of the abundant white space on the page been used for this? (Though, realistically, I guess it's hard to get TOO profound when talking about Looney Tunes -- they were never meant to be deep or meaningful ... just funny and entertaining.)Despite this disappointment, still a must-buy.

Os desenhos do Looney Tunes e Merrie Melodies marcaram a minha vida... E ter esse livro com todas as informações sobre eles, curiosidades, etc, é um tesouro, de verdade. Além do fato de o livro ser extremamente bem feito, capa dura, lotado de ilustrações... Valeu cada centavo, recomendo demais pra quem é fã.

Llegó un día antes de lo esperado, llegó en buen estado aunque la caja no traía ninguna protección por dentro, siendo un viaje largo, pero al final todo bien.Tiene unas ilustraciones hermosas de lo que fue y es looney tunes, te explican capitulos y te vienen frames o secuencias en algunos.Todo bastante bien.

For people who like me grew up watching The Bugs Bunny Show on weekday television, this book brings back many happy memories.The selection of "The 100 greatest Looney Tunes" (out of more than a thousand Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons made in the period 1930-1969) followed an online poll, and inevitably does not include everyone's own personal favourites. (I would have included 'Boston Quackie' and at least one more Foghorn Leghorn cartoon.)On the other hand, there were many in this book which I have never seen. Mostly these are now period pieces (some were made as wartime propaganda) but a sadder example is 'Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs' with its all-black, racially stereotyped cast and, for all its artistic merits, unacceptable for showing today.The book is heavily illustrated with stills from the cartoons and these are beautifully reproduced. Each cartoon gets a plot summary and some expert comments. My one complaint is that the cartoon credits (director, animators etc) are printed in black on a red background and very difficult to read in anything but bright light. But overall this book is a joy.

びっくり箱みたいな素敵な本です。

the book was amazing! very pleased with this purchase :)