The Bug Bunny stamp was issued to honor him and make him the USPS “ambassador to youth” and encourage children to take up stamp collecting as a hobby as part of its Stampers youth program.
Stamp design manager Terrence McCaffrey looked at over 150 different sketches from Warner Bros. Studios during the stamp design process. The actual stamp design was done by Warner Bros. under the supervision of McCaffrey.
Bugs Bunny was created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons (originally Leon Schlesinger Productions) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his featured roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Early iterations of the character first appeared in Ben Hardaway's Porky's Hare Hunt (1938) and subsequent shorts before Bugs's definitive character traits debuted in Tex Avery's A Wild Hare (1940). Bob Givens, Chuck Jones, and Robert McKimson are credited for defining Bugs's visual design.
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