Fred “Tex” Avery (1908-1980) is probably my favorite animator of all time. He created Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck before leaving Warner Brothers (after a Jack-Kirby/Stan-Lee-style dispute with Leon Schlesinger) to set up his own shop at MGM, where he made 63 cartoon shorts between 1942 and 1955. The 63 MGM Tex Avery cartoons (which […]
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My esteemed co-writer Barney Miller (right) and myself at the reception for the 2011 Mystery Writers’ Association of America Edgar Awards Banquet last Thursday. Our book was nominated for the Young Adult category but didn’t win. Who cares! The whole thing was such a total blast (and the guy who DID win our category started […]