From the RTF Dept.

For Sale: A Tex Avery Original Drawing Dating Back to Animator's Days at North Dallas High

By Robert Wilonsky Mon., Jun. 27 2011 at 9:27 AM
Categories: From the RTF Dept., Local Hero, Today's History Lesson
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Click to embiggen this Tex Avery original dating back to the North Dallas High School hallways.
​Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention to Cartoon Brew, which sends us to the Howard Lowery auction site -- where you'll find the drawing you see above, made in the mid-1920s at North Dallas High School by none other than Frederick Bean Avery, otherwise known as Taylor-born Tex. Avery, of course, is the man who created Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny during his legendary tenure at Warner Bros.; after that he landed at MGM.

Used to be when the AFI-Dallas handed out it Tex Avery Award to renowned animators, it did so with a ceremony at North Dallas. In '05, before his wingding, inaugural honoree Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Iron Giant) thumbed through old yearbooks and campus magazines for which which Avery had worked as an illustrator. I seem to recall this one was among them. The auction house says it sure is: "This rare original cartoon was created by the aspiring teen-aged artist, likely for one of the North Dallas High School publications." Right now it's cheap: $610, but with two whole weeks left on the bidding. If only Dallas ISD had some money.
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Amy S.
Amy S.

Where was Grassville, and why does the grass on the left seem to spell out Waxahachie?

george gobel
george gobel

I thought the adjective was "renowned," and that "renown" was the noun.  Such that "an animator of renown" is likewise a "renowned animator."   

Foo
Foo

Ahem ..Sir Robert ..... BUGS BUNNY not BUG BUNNY .... shame on you.... may you rot in the seven levels of cartoon hell.... (down there with the B/W Betty Boop, Bluto, and Bosko)

Robert Wilonsky
Robert Wilonsky

Yes, yes. A hectic morning led to a few typos. My apologies.

Raydan
Raydan

Damn! wish I had the coin. Met him one time when he visited my Mt.View College art class. Cool guy.

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