Animator Chuck Jones Dies

No, he was not squashed by a falling safe or run over by an Acme Indestructo Steel Ball. Jones created the Road Runner and Coyote cartons. Rules from that series:

  • “No dialogue ever, except ‘beep beep.”
  • “No outside force can harm the Coyote — only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products.”
  • “The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.”

Animator Chuck Jones Dies

Obituary, Guardian

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