Bugs Bunny was conceived at Leon Schlesinger’s animation unit at Warner Brothers studios, noted Britannica.com. The creative unit boasted a variety of top names in animation, including Tex Avery ...

Bugs Bunny, the iconic cartoon character, made his official debut in the 1940 Oscar nominated short, The Wild Hare. The Looney Tunes standout was first voiced by actor Mel Blanc. At the age of 80 ...

Bugs Bunny is one of the most popular, enduring and recognizable characters in the world. His trademark smirk and his ever-present carrot were born in the late 1930s; he exploded into fame during ...

The Bugs Bunny Film Festival continues through Feb. 27 at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. 617-876-6837, brattlefilm.org. Dana Gerber can be reached at [email protected].

WITH PIXAR’s “Inside Out” spotlighting anew the brilliance of the studio’s famed “brain trust,” it’s worth dwelling today on arguably animation’s first great brain trust — at ...

Don’t be misled by those earlier rabbits. On Sept. 10, 1940, Variety ran a brief item about the “new character Bugs Bunny” that WB was booking into Fox West Coast theaters. Bugs’ name ...

Bob Givens, a key member of the animation team that created Bugs Bunny, has died at 99 ... 14 of acute respiratory failure at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, his daughter ...