Bunny (Harvey Comics)

{{Short description|Harvey Comics character}}

Bunny Ball is a teenage-girl character in humor comic books published by Harvey Comics. She was created by a separate company as a projected doll toy, with Harvey Comics having the comic-book license.[http://www.toonopedia.com/bunny.htm Bunny] at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved on September 29, 2008. [https://archive.today/20120912175930/http://www.toonopedia.com/bunny.htm Archived] from the original on April 26, 2016. The comic was originally written by Warren Harvey, a son of one of the company's founders, and featured artwork by illustrator Hy Eisman.{{cite book |last1=Wells |first1=John |title=American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-1969 |date=2014 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=978-1605490557 |page=137}} Other artists who worked on the series included Sol Brodsky and Howard Post.

The Bunny series initially ran 20 issues (cover-dated Dec. 1966–Dec. 1971), with a final, 21st issue published five years later (Nov. 1976).{{gcdb series|id= 10226|title= Bunny}} Bunny also appeared in Harvey Pop Comics #2 (Nov. 1969).{{Gcdb issue|id= 262359|title= Harvey Pop Comics #2}} Every issue also contained a story about Fruitman, a seemingly ordinary guy named Percival Pineapple who had the unusual ability to turn himself into various types of fruit.

Bunny is an international model and actress. She has a younger sister named Honey and a rival named Esmeralda, or Esmy. Other characters include The Beagles, an English rock group fronted by Bunny's love interest Frederick, the poet William Wordsworth, the painter Marc, the Soular System, a foursome similar to the Motown groups of the 1960s, and Felix, a motorcycle cop on whom Esmy has a crush.

In November 1999, Jennifer Love Hewitt was attached to headline a feature film based on the character by MGM.{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/1999/film/news/hewitt-hops-to-mgm-bunny-1117758181/|title= Hewitt hops to MGM 'Bunny' |publisher=Variety|access-date=September 28, 2021}} Hewitt was to play a young woman who simultaneously attends college and goes on far-flung James Bond-esque spy missions. Stephen Sommers was in talks to direct.