Am I the last person on the planet to realize that Chuck Jones borrowed the physics and landscape of Krazy Kat to make the Road Runner cartoons?
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@abrahamjoseph has anyone written anything about this? Seriously fascinated.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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Replying to @abrahamjoseph @SeanCRubin
yeah, Jones, like many cartoonists, was familiar with and admired Krazy Kat, although by late 1940s Monument Valley was widely used by others as well (i.e. John Ford). Jones did a comic strip in 1970s that alluded to KK
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FWIW, E.C. Segar lifts the KK desert pretty much whole hog for an early pre-Popeye Thimble Theater arc (as Jeet well knows and has written about) that has a trip to the American Southwest in it.
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yes, I talk about that in my intro to the new Thimble Theater book from Sunday Press.
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