Back in 1975, when I was in the thick of making my first animated cartoon, Film Comment came out with an all-cartoon issue, which included an interview with Chuck Jones, one of my major animation heroes. This issue also featured a poster-sized wall chart by Joe Adamson (author of "Tex Avery: King of Cartoons") that highlighted the major cartoon stars from each Hollywood studio during the Golden Era. This chart went on my wall in '75 and stayed on my wall, wherever I happened to be working, until the early 90's when it started to disintegrate. I took it down, put it in a drawer, and I never saw it again. Until today! I was looking for some papers in a drawer and instead I found, lo and behold, the long-lost "Cartoon Constellations" chart by Joe Adamson! I spent the last few hours scanning and restoring my old copy of it, cleaning up some of the scratches and pushpin-holes that it's collected over the past 36 years. I can't find another copy of it on the web, at least at the moment, so I thought I'd share it with you. I've always found it very inspirational.
