Happy 70th birthday...
 

...to Bugs Bunny!

His first official cartoon, Tex Avery's A Wild Hare was released on this date in 1940. There were several cartoons pre-dating this that featured a wise-acre rabbit that many think to be a Bugs prototype, but A Wild Hare was the first with Mel Blanc delivering the iconic "What's up, doc?' line.

70 years old and still the very best at what he does. Bugs is a timeless classic. ;D

Bugs Bunny still rocks. This I didn't realize until today...my mother shares the same birthday as Bugs. How cool is that? :bloogrin:

Hooray for the carrot chewing comic genius whose many exploits keep me entertained even to this very day.

Two editions of A Wild Hare exist. The original print had Elmer guessing Carole Lombard in Bugs' little game of "guess who." Lombard died suddenly afterwards, so when the cartoon was reissued as a Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies film two years later, Barbara Stanwyck was dubbed over Lombard's name.