Legendary Screwball Animator Tex Avery Biography Now Released on Audiobook

NEWARK, N.J. - Sept. 13, 2013 - PRLog -- Celebrity biographer and animation expert Jeff Lenburg's authoritative biography, Tex Avery: Hollywood's Master of Screwball Cartoons ($34.95), is now available on audiobook.  Produced and read by Scott O'Neill, the unabridged edition, based on the illustrated hardcover edition, is part of Lenburg's eight-book Legends of Animation series published by Chelsea House. The downloadable digital audiobook ($14.95) sells exclusively online at Audible.com, an Amazon platform company, Amazon.com, and iTunes.

Lenburg's book offers an illuminating look at the life and career of this animation pioneer, his inspiration, and his lasting effect on the animation world. Considered the father of screwball animation, the six-time Academy Award nominated animator was one of the most influential animators of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.  Creator of such classic characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, George and Junior, and Screwy Squirrel, he directed 137 theatrical short-subjects for Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, MGM, and Walter Lantz Productions. Avery did much of his groundbreaking work at Warner Bros.' famous "Termite Terrace" animation studio where, with a team that included fellow innovators Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, he developed an animation style based on the idea that the artist could do anything in a cartoon and didn't need to base it in reality. Although Avery was blind in one eye, he did not let it hold him back. Known for his inventiveness and comic timing, he forged a legacy that influences animators today.

A native of the Pacific Northwest, O'Neill is a talented voice actor and live performer known for his naturally sophisticated storytelling abilities and flair for comedy. He has narrated a half-dozen audiobooks and is also a seasoned veteran of many regional stage, film, club and conference productions, including Seattle's long-running production of "Tony N' Tina's Wedding."

Lenburg's Tex Avery: Hollywood's Master of Screwball Cartoons  is available in print as well through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and most major booksellers. Critics hail his Legends of Animation series as "...well researched...will introduce readers to the individuals who were responsible for creating some of the most memorable characters on film."

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For more information and to play a sample of the audiobook, please visit: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Tex-Avery-Hollywoo...

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Jeff Lenburg is a profilic, award-winning author of 30 books, including celebrity memoirs, celebrity biographies, entertainment histories, popular references, and two national bestsellers. He is also a foremost authority on animation cartoons, having written seven books about its illustrious history, among them The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, Third Edition, the definitive source on the subject chronicling every animated cartoon--some 3,100 in all--ever made, and Who's Who in Animated Cartoons, the first-ever biographical reference on more than 300 award-winning and legendary animators in animation's 100-plus year history.