Actress Lucille Bliss, who voiced The Smurf‘s Smurfette, has passed
away at the age of 96. According to The Los Angeles Times, she died
from natural causes on Nov. 8 at an assisted living center in Costa
Mesa.

Over her 60 year career, Bliss provided the voices for a variety of
cartoon characters, including Crusader Rabbit, the first star of an
animated series produced for TV.

Crusader Rabbit

Debuting in August 1952 (cover date October–November), Mad began as a comic book published by EC before it became a magazine.

Alfred E. Neuman, fictional mascot and cover boy of the
parody publication

Cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman (October 3, 1924 – February 21, 1993) was  
the founding editor of Mad. He was inducted into the comic industry’s
Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1989.

Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg is still a very active author, recording artist,
animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and
advertising creative director,

Freberg was employed as a voice actor in animation shortly after he 
graduated from High School in Alhambra, California. He began at
Warner Brothers in 1944.

In 1958, the Oregon Centennial Commission, under the sponsorship of Blitz-
Weinhard Brewing Company, hired Freberg to create a musical to celebrate
Oregon’s one-hundredth birthday. The result was the album Oregon! Oregon!
A Centennial Fable in Three Acts. It was released by Capitol Records during  
the Oregon Centennial in 1959.

 

Bill Hinds and Jeff Millar

Tank McNamara is a daily syndicated comic strip written by Jeff Millar and illustrated
by Bill Hinds. The title character is a local sports television reporter who used to be
a defensive lineman in the National Football League. The strip focuses primarily
on contemporary athletics and related subjects like politics and and social issues.

 
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Pictured is cartoonist Friz Freleng, creator of "Bugs Bunny"

“A Wild Hare” was the first "official" Bugs Bunny cartoon