Editing Chuck Jones (section)

=== Return to Warner Bros. ===
Jones resumed working with Warner Bros. in 1976 with the animated TV adaptation of ''[[Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals|The Carnival of the Animals]]'' with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Jones also produced ''[[The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie]]'' (1979), which was a compilation of Jones's best theatrical shorts, new Road Runner shorts for ''[[The Electric Company]]'' series and ''Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales'' (1979). New shorts were made for ''Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over'' (1980).<ref name="imdb"/>

From 1977 to 1978, Jones wrote and drew the newspaper comic strip ''Crawford'' (also known as ''Crawford & Morgan'') for the [[Tribune Media Services|Chicago Tribune-NY News Syndicate]]. In 2011 [[IDW Publishing]] collected Jones's strip as part of their Library of American Comic Strips.<ref name="lambiek.net">{{cite web |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jones_chuck.htm |title=Chuck Jones &#124; Lambiek Comiclopedia |access-date=August 8, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821162408/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jones_chuck.htm |archive-date=August 21, 2016 }}</ref>

In 1978, Jones's wife Dorothy died. He married Marian Dern, the writer of the comic strip ''[[Rick O'Shay]]'' in 1981.<ref name="lambiek.net"/>