The early days of the Looney Tunes are explored in 'Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite'
and their imaginary characters and real creators is not required to enjoy journalist Jaime Weinman’s “Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes,” but it will help the reader stay engaged when the tome becomes, shall we say, a bit academic.
All historically correct, but perhaps missing the cosmic and/or comic dimensions of that particular “Big Bang” moment. But if Weinman’s prose tends to be more serviceable than scintillating, his tome more than makes up for that deficit in providing a very densely packed, detail-oriented historical look at a legendary hotbed of animated mayhem and comedic magic.
One early Tex Avery cartoon, “Daffy Duck & Egghead” , embodies that wild, swing for the fences approach. Weinman writes: “We see stock gags refined in a way that makes them distinctively Warner Bros. gags. … A 1937 cartoon by director Frank Tashlin, ‘The Case of the Stuttering Pig,’ features a running gag where the villain looks out into the audience and taunts a spectator.
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