Almost nothing about his films, in look or tone, belongs in the same club as Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck. But if you didn’t know that Sniffles was one of the Looney Tunes, you might not ever guess so. 'Sniffles and the Bookworm' has some nice character interaction between the two title characters, though it often takes a backseat to gags built around the then-popular premise of storybook characters coming to life. It's hard to deny the sweetness of Sniffles, even when he starts to become cloying, and his cartoons are handsomely made. RELATED: 5 Essential Looney Tunes to Watch Before (or After) Space Jamming 'Sniffles and the Bookworm' (1939) introduced his occasional sidekick, a bespectacled mute bookworm who plays the coward to Sniffles’s adventurer. Big-eyed, naïve, and squeaky-voiced, Sniffles is cute before all else, and most of his 12 cartoons concern his awed wanderings through an oversized world. And his first contribution to the Looney Tunes’ cast of recurring cartoon stars was also small: Sniffles the mouse. His first cartoon, ' The Night Watchman' (1938), starred a young cat smaller than the mice who invaded his kitchen. Jones also had an interest in stories about the little guy – literally. That influence is most evident in the production value: the backgrounds of these early cartoons are richly painted, and shadows on the characters provide dimensionality. But when Jones began directing, his first shorts went back to the Disney model. Jones admired Avery greatly, and even worked for him as an animator until Avery left Warner Bros.

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