Who is Bugs Bunny?
Bugs Bunny is a popular Warner Bros. cartoon character famed for his wisecracks and ability to handle any situation with a calm demeanor. Today’s audiences know Bugs as a gray rabbit, but he started out as a small white rabbit. He made his first big screen appearance in an animated short called Porky’s Hare Hunt on 30 April 1938. The short film was directed by Cal Dalton and Ben Hardaway. Hardaway’s nickname, incidentally, was Bugs. In this particular animated film, the character Porky Pig played a hunter who was harassed by a small white rabbit that is more concerned with driving Porky insane than escaping from a hunter. This movie was Bugs’ first introduction to the world.