Tex would have been 98 today

[Daffysleftfoot]

Yep, February 26, 1908 is exactly 98 years ago today. If Tex were alive today how would he be celebrating his brithday? Hopefully, he'd go to my blog (http://dmgermain.blogspot.com/), see the keen picture I drew and leave a comment or two. :daffy: :bugs2: :wolfie: :red: :droopy: (http://dmgermain.blogspot.com/)

[J. B. Warner]

Hee hee, that's a great drawing.

Happy posthumous 98th, Tex.

[rp-j]

Nice drawing!:)

Darn it, looks like I'll have to go watch The Legend Of Rockabye Point for the 1,000,000th time to celebrate his birthday...:D

[RetroMan]

Guess I'll honour the occasion by watching Red Hot Riding Hood!
Swell picture, by the way!

[Matt the Y]

Well, there's no denying that Avery was one of THE giants of classic theatrical animation and even though he died in 1980 (regrettably, the year before I was born), I would still like to commemorate what would have been his 98th birthday.

So...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEX!!!!!

(And, while we're on this topic, my favorite Avery cartoons are "Blitz Wolf", "Magical Maestro", "Wags to Riches", and "The Heckling Hare").

[Cartman]

Happy Birthday to the man who put the looney in Looney Tunes!

My favorite cartoons by Tex would be:

MGM
Big Heel Watha
Jerkey Turkey
The Blitz Wolf
Northwest Hounded Police
The Red trilogy
Lonesome Lenny
Half-Pint Pygmy

WB
The Heckling Hare
A Wild Hare
Porky's Duck Hunt
Uncle Tom's Bungalow
I Love to Singa

[Studio Toledo]

Well, there's no denying that Avery was one of THE giants of classic theatrical animation and even though he died in 1980 (regrettably, the year before I was born), I would still like to commemorate what would have been his 98th birthday.
There are times when I like to think if he had lived longer after 1980, since he was working for Hanna-Barbera at the time, he could've worked on "The Smurfs" if he thought he knew how to write really good gags with those characters (not that Peyo would've approved or not), but it would've been nice to see the time when people started appreciating his work in the '90s he if had lived up to then.

So...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEX!!!!!

(And, while we're on this topic, my favorite Avery cartoons are "Blitz Wolf", "Magical Maestro", "Wags to Riches", and "The Heckling Hare").
Somehow, the favorite I liked for the longest was the few cartoons he did at Walter Lantz, especially "Sh-h-h-h-h-h". Something about that cartoon still etches joy and total shock inside my brain!

[Sogturtle]

God bless you Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery!!!

You and Friz were the first of a handful of bonafide genius-cartoon directors!!! You were a giant's giant among a small group of giants. There are absolutely NO more new ones like that walking the earth today... only dwarves in comparison.

Thank you Tex for Bugs and Daffy, all the cartoons and the other characters!:)

[Cartman]

Yep, February 26, 1908 is exactly 98 years ago today. If Tex were alive today how would he be celebrating his brithday? Hopefully, he'd go to my blog (http://dmgermain.blogspot.com/), see the keen picture I drew and leave a comment or two. :daffy: :bugs2: :wolfie: :red: :droopy: (http://dmgermain.blogspot.com/)

I loved that drawing you did of Tex and his creations. What I loved even more was that cartoon you drew with the Censor Monkeys viewing Citizen Kane. Hilarious!!:p

[J. B. Warner]

I celebrated by watching several of his best MGM cartoons on YouTube, including "Red Hot Riding Hood", "Dumb Hounded", and "Bad Luck Blackie". I've never laughed harder in my whole life.

[Miss Marnie]

Yep, February 26, 1908 is exactly 98 years ago today. If Tex were alive today how would he be celebrating his brithday?

Well, he'd be rolling in his grave still from whoever came up with Wacky World of Tex Avery. Then, he'd be in Heaven, either ogling at his redheaded stripper character he came up with at MGM or reuniting with his long-lost wife.

[Miss Marnie]

What I loved even more was that cartoon you drew with the Censor Monkeys viewing Citizen Kane. Hilarious!!:p

Yeah, I liked that too. Although I think Casablanca would have been the better choice for the Censor Monkeys to rip apart. After all, it does have a character in it that's stereotypically black.

[Brundledan]

If Tex were alive today how would he be celebrating his brithday?

I like to think he'd be enjoying the personal recognition that only came in full force after he died. (Imagine how much more fun that 1985 MOMA retrospective would have been with Tex standing up there with Jones, Freleng, and Mel Blanc....)

-Dan