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COMIC BOOK STORY: Henery Hawk (LT&MM 38)
🕑 Added 2020-11-23 19:08:11 +0000 UTCHere's a comic book story with a slight Thanksgiving theme, featuring Henery Hawk! After he made his first appearance in Chuck Jones’ The Squawkin’ Hawk (1942), the little chicken hawk became a regular feature in the line of Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies Comics by late 1943. Starting with Walky Talky Hawky (1946), Bob McKimson revived the character in a series of cartoons featuring a loud, barnyard rooster, who later came to be known as Foghorn Leghorn. As for Henery's life in the comics, this feature lasted until 1954, but continued in other comic book magazines with the Warner Bros. characters through the mid-1960s.
From Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies Comics #38 (December 1944)—drawn by Vive Risto, a former animator in the black-and-white "Katz unit" (with directors Bob Clampett and Norm McCabe) in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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John Veitch
That's interesting to know that Henery became a regular character in the comics before McKimson re-introduced him to animated cartoons. Did some Warner executive tell McKimson to bring him back to tie-in with the comics?
