Vic & Nat'ly are two of Bunny Matthews' most iconic characters. The famous cartoonist gained national acclaim for his work, most notably Vic and Nat'ly. Born and raised in New Orleans, Bunny brought New Orleans culture and dialect to the mainstream through his characters, which appeared in many local comics and national newspapers. Own your own piece of history with this original. (12" x 19")
Will Bunn “Bunny” Matthews III (1951–2021) grew up in Metairie, went to the University of New Orleans, and worked at Jim Russell Records in the Lower Garden District and the Mushroom record shop near Tulane University before devoting himself to work as a freelance writer and cartoonist. Matthews’s first cartoons appeared in an alternative newspaper called The Word in the late 1960s. He eventually achieved local and national renown with his characters Vic and Nat’ly Broussard, outspoken residents of New Orleans’s Ninth Ward. The first published appearance of Vic and Nat’ly was in Dixie, a weekly supplement to the Times-Picayune. An earlier comic strip called F’Sure appeared in the 1970s and early ’80s and featured what would become Matthews’s characteristic unsanitized views of life in New Orleans. F’Sure ran in the weekly Figaro newspaper. Matthews also had regular comic strips in Gambit, OffBeat, and Wavelength, and he was a fixture on the local public television show Steppin’ Out.
Will Bunn “Bunny” Matthews III (1951–2021) grew up in Metairie, went to the University of New Orleans, and worked at Jim Russell Records in the Lower Garden District and the Mushroom record shop near Tulane University before devoting himself to work as a freelance writer and cartoonist. Matthews’s first cartoons appeared in an alternative newspaper called The Word in the late 1960s. He eventually achieved local and national renown with his characters Vic and Nat’ly Broussard, outspoken residents of New Orleans’s Ninth Ward. The first published appearance of Vic and Nat’ly was in Dixie, a weekly supplement to the Times-Picayune. An earlier comic strip called F’Sure appeared in the 1970s and early ’80s and featured what would become Matthews’s characteristic unsanitized views of life in New Orleans. F’Sure ran in the weekly Figaro newspaper. Matthews also had regular comic strips in Gambit, OffBeat, and Wavelength, and he was a fixture on the local public television show Steppin’ Out.