THE GENIUS OF FRIZ FRELENG!

According to Wikipedia: Isadore "Friz" Freleng, often credited as I. Freleng, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work on the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.
Friz was born on August 21, 1906, and during his long and creative career, he gave us some of the most memorable and lovable cartoon characters ever,  like Tweety Pie, Sylvester the cat, Speedy Gonzales, Yosemite Sam, The Pink Panther, The Inspector and many many more!  Long live Friz!

RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR!

THE LAST OF MY PINK PANTHER COMIC BOOK COVERS (Unpublished).

This was the last PINK PANTHER comic book cover I ever did for Editorial VID, which never saw the light of day.  Late in 1992, I was informed that the comic book branch was closing up shop and all artists and writers were being let go. However, VID  kept publishing and reprinting the same stories for several years more, without paying any royalties.

This is the original pen and ink artwork. I always signed my drawings even when I knew they would be white-washed out by the editors.

The cover was a reworking of my original NOVARO cover for DOMINGOS ALEGRES No. 2-1202, published in September 30, 1977. I substituted the Inspector for the generic little guy.

THE PINK PANTHER speaks Norwegian!

THE PINK PANTHER speaks Norwegian in these stories I did in Spanish years ago for Novaro.

Thanks to Jan Roar Hansen from the GCD, Grand Comics Database for sending me these scans!

Four of my PINK PANTHER covers in Sweden!

And here we have four of my covers for the PINK PANTHER comic books published in Sweden between 1983 and 1985. The Grand Comics Database has all the information but there is no way of knowing if the inside stories and artwork were mine.  Bummer!

Some of my PINK PANTHER covers published in Norway back in the 80s and 90s!

Thanks to Peter Croome from the Grand Comics Database™ (GCD) for sharing this information with me. I was not aware my work had also been published in Norway!!!

RIP Pat Harrington Jr., the voice of The Inspector!

Pat Harrington Jr., who played handyman Schneider on the popular sitcom "One Day At A Time", and was the voice of Inspector Clouseau on DePatie-Freleng's The Inspector cartoons in the 60s, died January 6th at age 86, his daughter announced Thursday morning.

A VERY PINK CHRISTMAS card

THE PINK PANTHER sample covers from the 70s and 80s. (Novaro Publishing)

These are a few of more than 200 Pink Panther comics I did for Novaro during the 70s and 80s.

This was a VID Publishers 1990s reworking of a previous cover I did for Novaro:

Most of my later VID comics were simply recreations of former stories I had done

for NOVARO  before it went bankrupt.