Bugs Bunny is a famous cartoon character created by the Warner Bros. studio. Bugs is a wise-cracking rabbit who talks with a Brooklyn accent. He is often portrayed eating a raw carrot and is known for his greeting “What’s up, Doc?” Many of the cartoons centered on Bugs’s conflicts with such characters as Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck.
Bugs was developed in 1936 by a group of artists at Warner Bros., including Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones. The character was named after one of the studio story editors. Mel Blanc supplied the rabbit’s voice. Bugs made his cartoon debut in 1938 in Porky’s Hare Hunt but did not star in his own cartoon until A Wild Hare (1940). Bugs became one of the most popular cartoon characters of the 1940’s and 1950’s. The last Bugs Bunny cartoon was made in 1964, but several feature-length anthologies of the cartoons were released later, beginning with Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975). Bugs returned to the screen to appear with basketball star Michael Jordan in Space Jam (1996), a mixture of live action and animation. He also appeared in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003).
See also Looney Tunes .
