Bucky Bug


Bucky Bug is a beetle who appears in Disney comics. He first appeared in the Silly Symphony Sunday comic strip, and later appeared as a regular feature in the comic book Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

Silly Symphony

Bucky Bug first appeared in the initial Silly Symphony strip, beginning January 10, 1932; he was the first character to debut in Disney comics. He was initially drawn by Earl Duvall, who subsequently left Disney and joined Warner Brothers where he created Buddy (Looney Tunes).
Bucky only had one film appearance, in "Bugs in Love", released in October 1932.
Bucky Bug also appeared in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories. Starting in issue #20, the comic began reprinting some of Bucky's original 1930s Silly Symphony strips. The reprints continued until issue #28, and were then replaced by Little Hiawatha strips.

Stories

Bucky's Silly Symphony storylines were initially unnamed; the action moved from one week to the next, with no explicit break between chapters. In reprints, however, a set of names has become the standard:Bucky Makes His Name The Quest for Fortune Adventures in Junkville Introducing Lucky Bucks Bugs in Love War with the Flies The Old Folks' New Home In Mother Goose Land Return to Junkville
The Bucky strips ended with Bucky and June saying goodbye to the readers:
On March 11, 1934, the Silly Symphony strip moved to its next storyline, based on the short Birds of a Feather.

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

In 1943, the anthology comic book Walt Disney's Comics and Stories began publishing original full-length comic book stories, and the first new 10-page Bucky story appeared in issue #39 - "A Cure for Gout", by Al Taliaferro. Bucky's stories appeared monthly for the next six years, ending with issue #120. The stories were drawn by a number of artists, including Carl Buettner, Vivie Risto, Ralph Heimdahl and Tony Strobl.
Bucky's supporting characters included June Bug, Bo Bug, the Mayor, Grandpa Bootle Beetle, and others. American Bucky stories almost always had the characters speaking in rhyme.
Bucky still makes frequent appearances in Dutch stories up to the present time.
Bucky is the first Disney character to make his first appearance in a comic strip outside the Mickey Mouse Universe.
He made a very brief cameo early in the 1988 Touchstone Pictures/Amblin Entertainment film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.