Charles Thorson

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Charles Gustav Thorson (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on 29th August 1890; died in Vancouver, British Columbia on 7th August 1966), birth name Karl Gustaf Stefanson, was a political cartoonist, character designer, children's book author and illustrator of icelandic decent.

Thorson is best known as the man who designed and named Bugs Bunny, but in a 10-year career (1935-45) in America's great animation studios he created hundreds of cartoon characters, including Elmer Fudd, Little Hiawatha, Sniffles the Mouse, 'Inki and the Mynah', The Lady Known as Lou, and Twinkletoes.

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Cartoon Charlie: The Life and Art of Animation Pioneer Charles Thorson, by Prof. Gene Walz (with the assistance of Dr. Stephen Thorson). Winnipeg, Canada: Great Plains Publications, 1998. 222 pages. ISBN 0-9697-8049-4.