Zazzle All, Folks!

If you haven't checked out the Looney Tunes page at Zazzle.com, you're in for a treat. It's almost impossible to find a t-shirt or a coffee mug with a Looney Tunes character on it in a store these days, but thanks to Zazzle, you can actually customize your own online and have it shipped straight to you. It may be the only place in the world to get a Claude Cat t-shirt like mine:



There are all kinds of wonderful images featuring characters familiar and obscure, in all sorts of artistic styles and poses. Whoever put together the library of artwork clearly cared. Careful, it's not cheap...but I'm a satisfied customer just the same!

Sylvester and Bugs for Post Alpha-Bits

Here's a short bit from a 1961 episode of The Bugs Bunny Show. Bugs and Sylvester, both munching on Post Alpha-Bits, are introducing a commercial featuring a Post postman character (the actual ad they are introducing isn't in the video below).

Salesman Daffy

Ace Novelty Company salesman Daffy Duck attempts to sell his wares to some new costumers in this promo for Cartoon Network.



(via Thad K)

Coloring Book Revue

Welcome to a new and possibly recurring series here on Misce-Looney-ous, the Coloring Book Revue. There are hundreds of Looney Tunes-themed coloring books floating around out there and I thought it may be fun to showcase some of them here. Instead of starting off with the good covers, this first post will show some of the more bizarre covers I have come across. For some reason I am oddly fascinated with these coloring book covers of the 1970s and 1980s. It's like a glimpse of the Looney Tunes characters in some sort of weird, alternate dimension.








If you have any Looney coloring book covers (the good, bad, or ugly) you'd like to share... e-mail them to looneyblog at yahoo dot com.

I Tawt I Taw a Pepper Tat

Tweety and Sylvester make a guest appearance at the end of this Dr. Pepper commercial from 1978.

Super 8 Rabbit

The United Artists Super 8 film box (circa late 1960s) depicting the very first Bugs Bunny cartoon, 1940's "A Wild Hare".



(image from Tim Hollis' museum Flickr)

I'm Glad That I'm Bugs Bunny

From 1950, here's Mel Blanc as Bugs singing "I'm Glad That I'm Bugs Bunny".