le morte de Wile E. Coyote

I grew up on Warner Bros. Cartoons. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and of course, Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote were all well known names in my household. It was entertainment for three generations as there were many times my Grandfather, my Father and my brothers and I would sit and enjoy those timeless Looney Tunes on Saturday Mornings on ABC.

Those times are long gone since ABC was bought out by Disney and not even TimeWarner’s Cartoon Network still airs what was, to me, the peak of the American Animated Humor Short Feature.

It would seem, also, that the “stars” of those shorts have fared no better according to recent exhibition work by artist Hyungkoo Lee. Lee’s show Animatus, formerly displayed at Arario Gallery, and now on display in Turin, Italy through January, offers up the sad remains of some of America’s most beloved icons. For more about it, click here!