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.
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: Pepé 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.
Produced with the full coöperation of the Chuck Jones family, the book was conceived by Kurtis Findlay, who says, “My first surprise when I started researching the Crawford comic strip was how little people knew about it. My second surprise was the treasure trove of Chuck Jones art we would find. Crawford just kept popping up in places I didn’t expect, making the history of this little-known character incredibly rich.”