Editing Chuck Jones (section)

== Early life ==
Charles Martin Jones was born on September 21, 1912, in [[Spokane, Washington]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Condran |first=Ed |date=2020-04-15 |title=Family, friend reminisce about Chuck Jones, Spokane’s award-winning Looney Tunes illustrator |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/apr/14/craig-kausen-reminisces-about-his-late-grandfather/ |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=Spokesman.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Chuck Jones Animation Connection / Cartoon Art / Cels (Cells) |url=https://www.animationconnection.com/artist/chuck-jones |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=www.animationconnection.com}}</ref> to Mabel McQuiddy (née Martin) (1882–1971) and Charles Adams Jones (1883–?).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZIv8NKfNKwC&q=%22Mabel+McQuiddy+Martin%22&pg=PA22|title=Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings|author1=Hugh Kenner|author2=Chuck Jones|page=22|access-date=May 4, 2017|isbn=9780520087972|date=January 1, 1994|publisher=University of California Press }}</ref> When he was six months old, he moved with his parents and three siblings to [[Los Angeles, California]].<ref name=obit/>

In his autobiography, ''Chuck Amuck'', Jones credits his artistic bent to circumstances surrounding his father, who was an unsuccessful businessman in California in the 1920s. He recounted that his father would start every new business venture by purchasing new stationery and new pencils with the company name on them. When the business failed, his father would quietly turn the huge stacks of useless stationery and pencils over to his children, requiring them to use up all the material as fast as possible. The children drew frequently, owing to the abundance of high-quality paper and pencils. Later, in one art school class, the professor gravely informed the students that they each had 100,000 bad drawings in them that they must first get past before they could possibly draw anything worthwhile. Jones recounted years later that this pronouncement came as a great relief to him, as he was well past the 200,000 mark, having used up all that stationery. Jones and several of his siblings went on to artistic careers.<ref>Jones, Chuck (1989). ''Chuck Amuck : The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist'', New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux; {{ISBN|0-374-12348-9}}</ref><ref>Jones, Chuck (1996). ''Chuck Reducks: Drawing from the Fun Side of Life''. New York: Warner Books; {{ISBN|0-446-51893-X}}</ref>

During his artistic education, he worked part-time as a janitor. After graduating from [[Chouinard Art Institute]], Jones got a phone call from a friend named Fred Kopietz, who had been hired by the [[Ub Iwerks]] studio and offered him a job. He worked his way up in the animation industry, starting as a cel washer; "then I moved up to become a painter in black and white, some color. Then I went on to take animator's drawings and traced them onto the celluloid. Then I became what they call an in-betweener, which is the guy that does the drawing between the drawings the animator makes".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://achievement.org/autodoc/page/jon1int-3|title=Chuck Jones Interview – page 3 / 5 – Academy of Achievement|access-date=July 21, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727215042/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/jon1int-3 |archive-date=July 27, 2014}}</ref> While at Iwerks, he met a cel painter named Dorothy Webster, who later became his first wife.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Williams|first=Jasmin|date=May 7, 2009|title=Chuck Jones – Master Animator|journal=New York Post|page=34|via=Business Insights: Global}}</ref>