Tex Avery

To paraphrase Tex Avery's carrot-chewing, wisecracking

The Register 2010

Beginning in Philadelphia in 1951 and then in New York and finally Hollywood, the former DJ and actor explored the TV medium with an irreverent acuity akin to other seminal mainstream artists with "everything goes" approaches, like Warner Bros. cartoon-maker Tex Avery, "Mad Magazine" prime mover Harvey Kurtzman, and Jerry Lewis's film-directing muse, Frank Tashlin.

In Praise of the Funny Man's Comedian Bruce Bennett 2011

The goal is obviously not to hit a homerun out of the park every time even the classic shorts directors like Tex Avery and Chuck Jones didn't aim for that, but to try and create fun films in a looser and less-stressful setting than feature production.

Archive 2009-03-01 Mike 2009

For Tex Avery, it's more that animation was about funny things that are drawn, or, more specifically, funny things that can only be drawn.

Archive 2008-02-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

For Tex Avery, it's more that animation was about funny things that are drawn, or, more specifically, funny things that can only be drawn.

Belated Tex Thoughts Jaime J. Weinman 2008

They were truly Tex Avery cartoons in live-action – Avery even recycled a few of their gags, like the film frame that jumps.

THREE STOOGES COLLECTION – VOL. 2: 1937-39 | Obsessed With Film 2008

Below, directed by Tex Avery, one of the most wonderfully anarchic 'toons ever.

The Mega Collector's Preston Blair: The Squirrel Jeff Massie 2008

Normally if a studio was going to give a big push to a character or series, they'd assign the series to all the directors; perhaps because MGM's other unit was headed by Tex Avery, who wasn't right for T&J and who Quimby didn't really trust anyway, the idea was to make the push for these characters by freeing up their creators to focus completely on that series.

How Tom & Jerry Changed Cartoons Jaime J. Weinman 2008

Below, directed by Tex Avery, one of the most wonderfully anarchic 'toons ever.

Archive 2008-11-01 Steve Hulett 2008

How can Little Red Riding Hood be more subverted than the 1943 Tex Avery cartoon which had grandman in an upscale penthouse and the title character as a sexy night-club entertainer and inspiration for a certain sequence from The Mask?

Row Three » Finite Focus: Fairytale Ending (Freeway) - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008