Of course, you can't see any of those colors in this black-and-white microfiche copy of the "Bugs Bunny" comic strip that ran on Sunday, July 4, 1976, but them's the breaks. What you do see, however, is a pretty good strip by artist Ralph Heimdahl and writer Al Stoffel in which (typical of many other strips that month) the classic Warner Brothers characters dream themselves into a key point in American history:
Heimdahl drew the Bugs Bunny comic strip for about 30 years, making him one of the longest-running rabbit artists. The strip doesn't seem to really run true to the characters from animation, but it's still some darned fine cartooning that (as far as I can tell) has never been collected in book form.
By the way Warner Brothers -- like a lot of other companies -- merchandised the heck out of their characters throughout the Bicentennial year. I've seen Bugs Bunny Bicentennial pins, hats, patches and even a belt buckle. I'm sure I've just scratched the surface as far as all of that's concerned. Expect a deeper post about that in the months ahead.
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