Celebrating the iconic artist/animator/cartoonist/screenwriter/producer/director Chuck Jones, who passed away 12 years ago today.

With eight Oscar-nominations under his belt, and three wins, Jones was given an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for “the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.”

Watch Jones' third Oscar-winner, The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965), adapted from Norton Juster's classic picturebook:

To the vector belong the spoils.