You should take a look at Dearfield's Red Rabbit's sister series, Foxy Fagan, which had most of its features written, storyboarded, penciled and inked by Harvey Eisenberg. Both Foxy Fagan (Fox), and Pete(Cat) & Tweet (bird) are his showcase features in that series. Foxy looks a lot like his Tom Cat he drew at MGM. Same is true for Pete Cat. Tweet looks very much like WB's Tweety Bird, and Foxy's sidekick is a slow-moving hound dog, who is a clone of MGM's Droopy(Happy Hound). The artwork is great - up to WB, MGM, and Walter Lantz standards. Most of Red Rabbit's features were NOT drawn by Eisenberg. Little Buck (Native American boy) is a clone of Disney's Little Hiawatha, Hick & Slick are clones of Disney's Country and City Mouse, Pancakes is a little highly stereotyped African-American boy who was a clone of Walter Lantz's (Racist stereotype) Li'l Eightball, and Bugsy Bear and his 2 boy cubs were clones of Paul Terry's Terry Bears.
The aet is great, and very animated. It is higher quality than many of the other Funny Animals from The 1940s.
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