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".

Blooper Bunny Magazine Covers

Below are some of the faux magazine covers in honor of Bugs' 51 1/2th anniversary that flash on the screen at the start of the 1991 short "Blooper Bunny" (including one for Better Holes and Gardens which wasn't in the final cartoon).









(artwork from Van Eaton Galleries website)

Speedy and Butch Catsidy

Here's an odd piece of Warner artwork recently posted on the Van Eaton Galleries website. It appears to be model cel from an unmade Speedy Gonzales cartoon featuring Speedy and an enemy named Butch Catsidy (who looks like the Tasmanian Devil, suggesting that Bob McKimson was going to be involved with this production). Does anyone have any other information?

Wanna Buy a Record from Mel Blanc?

Here's a promotional film from 1951 for Capitol Records starring Mel Blanc titled "Wanna Buy a Record?". Mel is a frustrated record salesman who gives a reluctant customer (played by Billy May) a tour of the Capitol Records facilities. Sadly, the last five minutes seem to be cut off from this version on YouTube.



Here's one of the many Looney Tunes records featuring the voices of Mel Blanc from Capitol Records, "Bugs Bunny and the Pirate" (1954).