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	Tex Avery
		Avery attended North Dallas High School in the 1920s, and it is here that he first became to dabble in the art of cartooning, an art that he would eventually become famous for.
		Tex wanted to dub his creation ‘Jack Rabbit’ or ‘Jack E. Rabbit,’ because, as he said, "I thought it would please my Texas friends." The name ‘Bugs Bunny’ stayed, though, partly because Avery probably recognized that it was a catchy name, one that would stick in people’s minds.
		Avery never did (although he did create Droopy Dog, he was hardly as big a star as Bugs), but that did not stop his cartoons at MGM from being wild masterpieces.
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	Tex Avery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tex Avery was a descendant of Judge Roy Bean and Daniel Boone, but all...
		Of Fox and Hounds (1940) (as Fred Avery)
		The Isle of Pingo Pongo (1938) (as Fred Avery)
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	Comic creator: Tex Avery
		Fredrick "Tex" Avery was born in Taylor, Texas in 1908, which explains his nickname.
		Avery moved to California in the early thirties and entered the animation field as a painter.
		Tex Avery died in August 1980, leaving behind a legacy of comic characters.
	lambiek.net /artists/a/avery_tex.htm (177 words)

	The High Weirdness Project: The Compleat Tex Avery
		But Tex Avery was the true genius behind the cartoon boom at Warner Bros., and MGM in the 1940s as well: he abandoned Disney's ultra-realistic approach took the art of animation to an entirely new level.
		Tex Avery's insanity was contagious: it affected the art of animation as much as Walt Disney's penchant for realism.
		Tex Avery's cartoons didn't go for the "intellectual" humor of Jones' cartoons, but that's okay, because there's a place in our hearts for cheap laughs, corny gags, silly situations and outlandish puns.
	www.modemac.com /wiki/The_Compleat_Tex_Avery (2081 words)

	Avery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nicole Avery Cox, American actress known mostly for her roles on the television series Unhappily Ever After and Las Vegas
		Avery Trace, important 19th century road between Kingston, Tennessee and present-day Nashville, Tennessee
		Avery Dennison Corporation, manufacturer of office supplies including ink pens and adhesive labels, or its Avery trademark
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avery (167 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| The Life and Career of Tex Avery
		Born in 1908 in Taylor, Texas, Frederick "Tex" Avery was related to both Daniel Boone and the infamous Judge Roy Bean, who allegedly assured prisoners that they would receive a fair trial before they were hanged.
		Avery, at 27, was the grand old man of the group, but his ideas about how to transform the theatrical cartoon were more radical than those of his younger comrades.
		Avery also endeared himself to intellectuals by constantly breaking through the artifice of the cartoon, having characters leap out of the end credits, loudly object to the plot of the cartoon they were starring in, or speak directly to the audience (often shown as silhouettes at the bottom of the frame).
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /22/texavery.html (1269 words)

	Festival News 1998 - Tex Avery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Avery created Droopy and most of the other important characters while working at the MGM studios 1942-1957, where his touch was apparent in all the productions.
		Avery was even an Oscar nominee for his first film at MGM, a nazi satire Blitz Wolf in 1943.
		Avery himself had the pleasure of enjoying his position as a respected guru for some ten years before passing away in 1980.
	www.uta.fi /festnews/fn98/th/texave.htm (298 words)

	Tex Avery's Screwball Classics Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tex Avery is a man who needs no introduction to even the most casual animation fan.
		Avery's characters are a motley crew of misfits.
		All of the characters in Avery's MGM cartoons are drawn in a highly distinct style.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/6351/avery.html (429 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Tex Avery
		Tex Avery, one of the most important and influential American animators,; produced dozens of cartoon masterpieces primarily for the Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer (MGM) studios from the 1930s to the 1950s.
		Avery was most intrigued by the limitless possibilities of animation and filled his work with chase sequences, comic violence, and unbelievable situations that could not be produced in any other medium.
		Avery and his crew's characters were more irreverent than those of their Disney competitors and the cartoons themselves were marked by direct addresses to the audience, split screen effects, and abrupt changes in pacing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200049 (467 words)

	Hollywood Film Festival® - Hollywood Tex Avery Animation Award™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All the many websites and books about Fredrick Bean "Tex" Avery agree he was born in Taylor, Texas, Feb. 26, 1908, and started drawing comic strips in high school.
		That extreme "Tex Avery eyeball take" with tongue rolling out and steam coming out of the ears is one of his most copied creations, showing up everywhere from The Simpsons to Jim Carrey's super-charged, overreacting character in The Mask.
		Tex continued to generate new characters, including perhaps his best-known, Droopy, a maddeningly deadpan dog who always drives the Wolf insane and outwits his larger opponents in a tradition of underdog animal comedy that goes back to Egyptian folk tales.
	www.hollywoodawards.com /texavery (874 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| The Fairy Tales of Tex Avery
		Avery's versions of these archetypal stories, made to satisfy both children and adults, attempt to reverse Bettelheim by "bringing chaos out of order." For young audiences, Avery preserves the trappings of the genre — talking animals, supernatural events — and adds the cinematic touch of physical law constantly challenged.
		Avery's inclusion of the audience — even in silhouette form — in the story undermines the linear narrative, and any potential moral that might be derived from it, by pointing out that these are, after all, only fictional inventions.
		Avery discussed this idea in an interview with Joe Adamson; it was something he was well aware of in his career because he had censorship problems with it.
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	Cartoon Network \| Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tex Avery is the only animation director whose very name defines a genre of Golden Age Cartoons.
		Avery came into his own at MGM, where he directed more than 60 cartoons through 1955, and created such characters as Droopy, Wolf & Red, and Screwy Squirrel.
		Tex Avery: Read about the creator of Bugs Bunny.
	www.cartoonnetworkla.com /english/watch/creator/tavery.html (301 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Tex Avery
		Tex Avery started out trying to break into newspaper or magazine cartooning.
		Avery was also instrumental in the development of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd (who was in part a modification of Avery's earlier character, Egghead).
		In 1941, Avery quarrelled with Schlesinger over a series idea, comedy shorts featuring live-action animals with animated mouths dubbed onto their faces (a technique which may have inspired the technique used to "animate" Clutch Cargo).
	www.toonopedia.com /avery.htm (692 words)

	A Brief History Of Warner Bros. Animation
		Leaning away from imitation Disney cartoons every other studio in Hollywood was producing, Avery made fun of animated cartoon traditions, lampooning fairy tales and creating off-beat wise guy characters.
		Avery introduced Daffy Duck in 1937, and directed 'A Wild Hare' in 1940, the cartoon which crystallized the personality of Bugs Bunny.
		Advancing to animator at Warner Bros., under the direction of Tex Avery, Jones worked on the earliest Porky Pig cartoons.
	www.animationusa.com /wbmore2.html (577 words)

	Walt Disney vs Tex Avery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However in comparing the works of Tex Avery with Walt Disney and focusing on their place in animation history, their political and cultural significance and the cinematic technique on display, Avery emerges as the innovative visionary and Disney as the simplistic reactionary.
		Tex Avery and the other Termite Terrace artists dispensed with realism and concentrated on twisting the conventions that Disney had established.
		Avery and the other "Termite Terrace" animators helped establish a series of gags that defined the medium and are being plagiarised to this day.
	www.troy33.freeserve.co.uk /walt.htm (2832 words)

	Images - The Fairy Tales of Tex Avery
		With their simple storylines and language, exotic backgrounds, supernatural and melodramatic elements, interplay between animal and human characters, and frequent child heroes and heroines, fairy tales were an obvious choice of subject matter for Hollywood animators, just as they were for the medieval mothers who used them to entertain and instruct their children.
		Avery's versions of these archetypal stories, made to satisfy both children and adults, attempt to reverse Bettelheim by "bringing chaos out of order." For young audiences, Avery preserves the trappings of the genre -- talking animals, supernatural events -- and adds the cinematic touch of physical law constantly challenged.
		Part of this approach was an outgrowth of the collaboration of Avery with fellow renegades Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, and other denizens of Warner Bros.' "Termite Terrace," but Avery's application of modernist elements in an ancient cultural form is the most complex and extreme of the lot.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue06/features/texavery.htm (568 words)

	THINGS TO DO
		I hope you noticed the false statement - Tex Avery directed the first Daffy Duck cartoon, Ben Hardaway directed the first Bugs Bunny cartoon and Tex Avery created the first Bugs to display his well known character traits.
		Avery is generally called the father of Bugs and Daffy.
		Elmer is refined further in Tex Avery's A Wild Hare (1940) and in later works by Jones, Avery and other directors.
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	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - Tex Avery
		The Avery ouevre included far-out visual puns, hyperbolic facial and physical reactions (elasticized eyeballs, precipitously dropping jaws, bodies stiffening suggestively in mid-air at the sight of feminine pulchritude) and "everything including the kitchen sink" payoff gags.
		Tex's principal achievement during his Cascade years were his classic "Raid" commercials and his "Frito Bandito" spots.
		Retiring in the mid-1970s, Avery returned to the fold at the personal invitation of his old MGM colleagues, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/Biography.asp?ctr=572875 (597 words)

	Ralph Bakshi :: View topic - Tex Avery
		Tex Avery's cartoons were aimed at adult audiences and he also pushed the limits of what was acceptable.
		Now in those bad times of animation, Tex was out of a job like a lot of other animators I picked up, Irv, Manny, etc...they were out of work at the time I met them.
		From the time I met Tex and found out who he was, I would have let him direct before John K. Because both John and I and everyone else just loved Tex Avery.
	www.ralphbakshi.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=712 (585 words)

	Tex Avery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born Frederick Bean Avery in Taylor, TX, Tex Avery was a descendant of Judge Roy Bean and Daniel Boone, but all his grandma ever told him about it was "Don't ever mention you are kin to Roy Bean.
		Among the many cartoon characters Avery created are Daffy Duck, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel and Chilly Willy.
		Avery is also credited with creating the personality of Bugs Bunny.
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	Tex Avery at MGM's - Characters : Droopy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The most known hero of Tex Avery is Droopy, which appears for the first time in Dumb-Hounded, in March 1943.
		This longevity will have a significant influence on the behaviour and the layout of the character, who was not yet well defined for its first use.
		Droopy has been inspired to Avery by a character voice in a radio broadcast.
	www.cottet.org /avery/avdrop.en.htm (366 words)

	UAV Corporation - News: Goofy Godfather of Toon Town - TEX AVERY! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tex Avery has had an immeasurable influence on American animation and comedy.
		During his time at Warner, Avery Tex was heavily involved in the creation of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and other Looney Tunes and Merry Melody characters.
		In the Emmy-nominated Wacky World of Tex Avery, we are introduced to a whole barrage of new wacky characters, paying homage to the great man.
	www.uavco.com /corporate/news/texavery.html (674 words)

	Tex Avery Tribute Site - The CHUD.COM Message Boards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I found this fun Tex Avery Tribute site through Cartoon Brew today.
		Hell, in one short he perfectly animated a fake hair-stuck-in-the-projector and had it flip around just long enough so people would start complaining to the management, only to have Spike reach up and pluck it off the screen.
		Tex Avery was one of the true legends of animation.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=79168 (471 words)

	fps: The Magazine of Animation: Brad Bird and the First Annual Tex Avery Animation Award
		So it was appropriate for the Deep Ellum Film Festival (now in its seventh year) to hold the first annual Tex Avery Animation Award at the NDHS auditorium today.
		The first receipent was Brad Bird and the award was presented by Nancy Avery Arkley, Tex's daughter, and he was introduced by William Joyce (children's author and illustrator and creator of Rolie-Polie Olie, George Shrinks, and the art director for Robots).
		Then they showed a short clip of a documentary about Avery where he was asked if he made his cartoons for children to which he replied, "I never thought of children.
	www.fpsmagazine.com /2005/11/brad-bird-and-first-annual-tex-avery.shtml (1566 words)

	Animated Films
		Avery's first cartoon for MGM, Blitzwolf (1942) brought him his sole Oscar nomination.
		Besides Tom and Jerry (see below), the other biggest MGM cartoon character, Tex Avery's most famous at the studio, was the meek, slow-moving and slow-talking Droopy Dog.
		When Stanley dons a magical mask, he turns into an alter ego composed of Tex Avery-like cartoon characters - the Wolf (including a famous double-take with his eyes popping out of his head and a wolf whistle), the Tasmanian Devil (whirling like a tornado), and others.
	www.filmsite.org /animatedfilms3.html (2620 words)

	YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
		Avery rolling when she was eight weeks old
		After Scoring, Avery does pushups to taunt former coach Andy Murray, or just to motivate his team, or to, ehhh who knows.
		averys at home sick adn im watching her eat a hotpocket.
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