Chuck Jones was an animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer and director of animated films. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. During the World War 11 years, Jones worked closely with Theodore Geisel (also known as Dr. Seuss) to create the Private Snafu series of Army education cartoons. Jones would later collaborate with Seuss on a number of Seuss’ book adaptations to animated form, most importantly, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” 1966. Jones hit his creative stride in the late 1940’s, and continued to make his best-regarded works through the 1950’s. Characters created from this period by Jones include Claude Cat, Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot, Charlie Dog, Michigan J. Frog, Pepe LePew, The Road Runner, and Wile E. Coyote. Chuck is considered by many animation historians to be the greatest animator of all time.

Fast and Furry-ous – 1948, Directed by Chuck Jones

Fast and Furry-ous,” 1949, is the first cartoon to feature Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. It set up the series where Wile E. Coyote (here given the ersatz Latin name Carnivorous Vulgaris) tries to catch Roadrunner (Accelleratti Incredibus) through many traps, plans and products. The Coyote pursues the Road Runner through the desert. Despite his clever attempts, the Coyote never catches the Road Runner. All of his elaborate schemes backfire and end up injuring him in humorous instances of highly exaggerated, cartoon slapstick and violence. The only spoken communication is the Road Runner’s “beep beep.”