Bugs literally declares war, invades the magician’s home turf, and spends the next five minutes dishing out one bit of retribution after another. One of the most famous Bugs Bunny story formulas was created by Chuck Jones for the cartoon “Case of the Missing Hare.” Bugs is minding his own business when an obnoxious magician comes along and treats him bad. (Yosemite Sam was created to be more threatening than Elmer Fudd, but Bugs rarely actually considers him threatening it’s supposed to show how cool Bugs is that he’s not afraid of Sam, even though everyone else seems to be.) Moments when Bugs loses the upper hand are very rare, and his opponents are almost always morons who pose no serious threat. The classic Bugs Bunny structure is sort of prologue followed by extended resolution: someone bothers Bugs (hunting for him or otherwise pissing him off), and Bugs spends the rest of the cartoon finding escalating ways to display his superiority over the opponent. Except most of them don’t really play that way at all, because Bugs Bunny rarely takes the problems or complications seriously. There are a few Bugs Bunny cartoons that follow this structure, and they all sort of can be broken down into problem-complication-resolution. In the dream sequence that makes up the bulk of Bob Clampett’s “The Great Piggy Bank Robbery,” Daffy’s detective persona Duck Twacy has a problem (stolen piggy banks), faces complications (getting to the gangster hideout and meeting all the gangsters) and resolves it (defeating the bad guys and getting the piggy banks) before waking up. This is a structure that is followed in many Daffy Duck cartoons, especially the ones from the ’50s, but even some of the earlier ones where he wasn’t a loser. There are many variations on those rules, but most of them are based on the familiar three-part structure: Give your protagonist a problem, complicate it, and resolve it. Part of the answer, I think, is that Bugs Bunny is extremely hard to write for, and the reason he’s hard to write for goes to the heart of why these characters are so hard to revive effectively.Ī Bugs Bunny cartoon goes against all the rules of what we – and writers – now think of as well-made screen storytelling. But I was asked why Daffy Duck, rather than Bugs Bunny, is usually the main character of these reboots (Daffy got more screen time than Bugs in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and one of the better reboots was Daffy’s Duck Dodgers). In the gallery below you’ll find a dozen images, each one is available as a 1/1 over on Rarible.Having written enough about The Looney Tunes Show and Looney Tunes reboots in general, I don’t want to say any more about that particular show, which could still eventually turn out to be okay. It all comes together just in time though, because in a matter of days Bugs Bunny returns to the big screen alongside LeBron James with the release of Space Jam: A New Legacy. I probably could have done something cool enough back then but for a good while I kept this project in mind while I worked through my waiting list and developed new techniques, namely 3D/digital modeling and 3D printing. It wasn’t too long after that asked if I could bring the illustration to life using Retro Jordan 8s. the day before I published my first sneaker mask.įast forward a few years and about 80 sneaker masks later to 2014, reached out to me to commission a full body remix of this illustration for a tattoo fitted with the "Bugs Bunny" Jordan 8s. This mask starts its journey all the way back to MASK365 and a post on this blog from November 11th, 2010.
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