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A review by sonofatreus
Looney Tunes: The Biography by Jaime Weinman
5.0
There's a lot of information in this book, but probably the most enlightening to me was that my house was a Looney Tunes house, not a Disney house. Now, we watched the animated features (Lion King, etc.), but were never really into cartoons that featured Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and the rest. There were Looney Tunes cartoons described by Weinman that I haven't seen in twenty years and I could still easily recall exactly what he was talking about.
The book covers the history of Looney Tunes, back when they were pretty blatantly racist, ripping off other characters, or both. It goes over the creation and evolution of most of the major characters, both in terms of animation styles and their personalities. Much of it is focused on the creators, but it gets into how the audiences and executives perceived them too. There's a touch of analysis of the cartoons themselves but not enough to be a proper analysis.
It's probably not a perfect book, but it's very readable and full of information. I enjoyed it.
The book covers the history of Looney Tunes, back when they were pretty blatantly racist, ripping off other characters, or both. It goes over the creation and evolution of most of the major characters, both in terms of animation styles and their personalities. Much of it is focused on the creators, but it gets into how the audiences and executives perceived them too. There's a touch of analysis of the cartoons themselves but not enough to be a proper analysis.
It's probably not a perfect book, but it's very readable and full of information. I enjoyed it.