AVERY, Tex

After directing some Oswald the Rabbit cartoons for Walter Lantz at Universal in the mid-‘30s, he became a principal creator of Bugs Bunny (1940, in A Wild Hare), who subsequently appears in over 150 films as an anarchistic protagonist who survives all adversity (as, needless to say, a descendant of preternaturally wise rabbits in American folklore and literature). What distinguished the best Avery cartoons from Walt Disney's, say, are such qualities as quicker pace, a sharper edge, continous detailed...