Chuck Jones

• Focuses on the relationship between voice training and acting • Simple, easy-to-follow exercises to strengthen the voice in just 10 minutes per day • Revised and expanded edition includes new techniques • Replaces ISBN 0-8230-8333-0 Chuck Jones, the leading expert on using the voice to convey character, explains his groundbreaking techniques clearly and concisely in this revised edition of a classic. First, Jones examines acting basics related to the voice: being heard, character choices, and power. Then he introduces daily exercises that release, stretch, and strengthen the voice, in order to increase the actor’s expressive range. For any actor who wants to grow and develop,Make Your Voice Heardoffers powerful, practical tools for connecting the voice to emotions—and using the vocal instrument to create new levels of meaning.

An Actor's Guide to Increased Dramatic Range Through Vocal Training

Make Your Voice Heard

The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

Chuck Amuck

Hugh Kenner

Describes the works of a director of Warner Brothers animated cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s, and explains how his sense of humor shaped the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and other familiar characters

A Flurry of Drawings

We all harbor a secret wish that we could find a previously unseen project by one of the greatest figures in animation history. Well, wish no more - celebrating the 2012 centennial of Chuck Jones's birth, IDW's Library of American Comics unveils Chuck Jones: The Dream That Never Was! The Academy Award-winning director of "Duck Amuck," "What's Opera, Doc," "How The Grinch Stole Christmas," and other timeless classics, created dozens of cartoon characters throughout his decades-long career: Pepe Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote... and Crawford, an accident prone, nine-year-old boy whose daily routine includes surviving his own boyhood. Chuck Jones: The Dream That Never Was follows the twenty-seven year journey it took Jones to bring Crawford to the public, from conception to storyboard to newspaper strip. This incredible volume is loaded with never-before-seen sketches, drawings, storyboards, and production notes, and the six-month run of the Crawford newspaper comic strip from 1978. Accompanying the artwork is a biography of Chuck Jones's career in the sixties and seventies and how it influenced the creation of Chuck's only foray into the world of comic strips Animation Magazine calls Chuck Jones: The Dream that Never Was one of the "10 Essential Books for Animation Students".

The Dream That Never Was

Academy Award winning animator Chuck Jones looks back on his life and career, and explains how he and his fellow animators created cartoon characters

Rudyard Kipling

A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Retells Rudyard Kipling's tale of a rare white seal who sets out on a long journey to find an island where seals can be safe from the humans that hunt and kill them for their fur.

The White Seal

Jim Wilson

Scott Owens

Baynard Woods

Michael Knight

George Singleton

Shari Smith

Susan Cushman

Greg Herren

Wendy Reed

Judith Richards

Suzanne Hudson

Jennifer Horne

Jennifer Paddock

Chuck Cannon

Ed Southern

Joe Formichella

Lari White

Michael Reno Harrell

Bev Marshall

Marlin Barton

Janet Nodar

The first Shoe Burnin' occurred on a cold winter's night years ago in Alabama. When the firewood ran out, a box of old shoes provided the assembled group of friends and artists with the fuel they needed to stock the hearth and share stories and songs late into the night. The bond forged that night began a tradition of fireside Shoe Burnin's. Naturally, many of the stories and songs involved shoes -- the places they've been and the people who wore them. Now, for the first time, these works have been collected in The Shoe Burnin', Stories of Southern Soul. The hardcover book includes a companion CD of spoken word and music that captures the Southern soul.

Stories of Southern Soul

The Shoe Burnin'

• Have you ever had a question about God’s Holy Spirit? • Just what is the baptism of the Holy Spirit? • Are the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit for today? • When and how are we filled with the Holy Spirit? • Does talking about the Holy Spirit make you uncomfortable? • Are you offended by God’s Spirit because of the abuses of others? • Is there a counterfeit spirit at work today? • Do you worry that maybe you have blasphemed the Holy Spirit? • Have unmet expectations left you disillusioned with God’s Spirit? • Has uncertainty caused you to put off the Holy Spirit? • Are you afraid of the Holy Spirit because of what He might make you do? • What is speaking in tongues? Is it real, and is it necessary? • Have you ever considered what the baptism of the Holy Spirit means for eternal life? • Why do so many in our churches either reject or misrepresent the Holy Spirit? This book seeks to answer these questions and more in the most direct and simple way possible.

The Holy Spirit: Can You Live Without Him?

• Focuses on the relationship between voice training and acting • Simple, easy-to-follow exercises to strengthen the voice in just 10 minutes per day • Revised and expanded edition includes new techniques • Replaces ISBN 0-8230-8333-0 Chuck Jones, the leading expert on using the voice to convey character, explains his groundbreaking techniques clearly and concisely in this revised edition of a classic. First, Jones examines acting basics related to the voice: being heard, character choices, and power. Then he introduces daily exercises that release, stretch, and strengthen the voice, in order to increase the actor’s expressive range. For any actor who wants to grow and develop, Make Your Voice Heard offers powerful, practical tools for connecting the voice to emotions—and using the vocal instrument to create new levels of meaning.

The illustrated classic, complete with a new preface by Matt Groening. Winner of three Academy Awards and numerous other prizes for his animated films, Chuck Jones is the director of scores of famous Warner Bros. cartoons and the creator of such memorable characters as the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, and Marvin Martian. In this beguiling memoir, Chuck Jones evokes the golden years of life at "Termite Terrace," the Warner Bros. studio in which he and his now-famous fellow animators conceived the cartoons that delighted millions of moviegoers throughout the world and entertain new generations of fans on television. Not a mere history, Chuck Amuck captures the antic spirit that created classic cartoons-such as Duck Dodgers in the 241/2 Century, One Froggy Evening, Duck Amuck, and What's Opera, Doc?-with some of the wittiest insights into the art of comedy since Mark Twain.

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