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Here’s some Looney Tunes fanart I made thought out the course of 2022.
I remember seeing only a small chunk of the classic cartoons back when I was a kid and a few more of the significant cartoons when I got older. And just this year have seen a plethora of Looney Tunes cartoons I’ve never seen before with the golden collection on DVD. And seeing all these great cartoons inspired me to make artwork of some of some of my personal favorite characters from the series that you see here!
Black Canary 6 Looney Tunes variant cover 2015. This is one of the variants I collaborated on, here with Pia Guerra, myself providing three of the four birds, for the lineup. (See previous post for the pencils I did and more info on the project)
Today is the day to celebrate the birthday one of the most overlooked impressionist of both animation and live-action in this day and age, Kent Rogers. He is most known for being (possibly) one of THE youngest impressionist out there.
Before getting into voice acting, Rogers had minor roles in movies such as All American Co-ed and appeared in many radio shows of the time.
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At Warner Bros. cartoon studio, Rogers voiced an array of cartoon characters for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, was noted for doing Beaky Buzzard, Henery Hawk and Junior Bear, among others throughout the early 1940s. He is even known for voicing 95% of the male Hollywood celebrity caricatures in Tex Avery’s Hollywood Steps Out (save for Jerry Colona, who Mel Blanc did), and also doing voices at Walter Lantz Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he voiced Woody Woodpecker for a short while, and some bits of Avery’s Wolf character, and many more for the respective animation studios.
Keep in mind he was late teens when doing all of these voices!!
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He is close to the likes of Mel Blanc as being the “Man of a Thousand Voices”.
Sadly, Rogers was drafted with his life was cut short in a plane crash in July 4th, 1944. Sad how he will never get the same recognition that Mel Blanc and June Foray had.
I did not expect to find a cartoon where Beaky Buzzard, one of the easiest marks in Looney Toons lore, plays the role of the personification of the inevitability of death.
Big birds - Tweety (Hyde style), Beaky Buzzard and Foghorn Leghorn in a lineup together with DC’s Black Canary (to be inserted later by comic book artist Pia Guerra) for a variant comic book cover from 2015. This was one of 25 covers featuring DC characters and Looney Tunes that I provided drawings for. DC art director Mark Chiarello supplied me with rough concepts for the covers showing how everything should work, and I submitted drawings, sometimes multiple versions, of the characters, which were then passed on to the DC cover artists to be included in the final.
So in that new toddler show called Bugs Bunny Builders (which I don't see as "canon" to usual Looney Tunes shenanigans because it is way too cute and kind so it's like a canon AU to me) not only did they give Mama Buzzard A NAME AT LAST, BRENDA BUZZARD IT IS, they also gave her a 5th chick, a girl named Bizzy Buzzard
She is adorable even if I suppose in the normal cartoon continuity she would be less innocent or cute, but since she is the newest addition and since I said in my previous post I imagine Brenda and Joe who are technically not even exes because they were just a one time fling there is still a notable attraction as he keeps trying to impress her and as annoyed as she is really she is charmed. They do like each other
So one day they got close again enough to make a 5th kid so Bizzy is the child of the reunification lmao