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[[File:ltgc6-bosko_6285.jpg|frame|Bosko, in his final Warners short, ''Bosko's Picture Show''.]]
Meet the [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]] of [[Looney Tunes]], '''Bosko, The Talk-Ink Kid''', the original, all but forgotten debut cartoon character of Leon Schlesinger's animation studio for Warner Bros during [[The Golden Age of Animation]]. Created by ex-Disney employees [[Harman and Ising|Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising]], Bosko is, as his name tells, a "[[Punny Name|talk-ink kid]]" -- or more specifically, an inkblot blackface character. His first appearance was in the short pilot "Bosko The Talk-Ink Kid" in 1929, and was noteworthy for being one of the earliest cartoons to feature properly synchronized sound and dialogue in a cartoon. However, his official theatrical debut (the pilot was never shown to the public) was in the original 1930 [[Looney Tunes]] short ''[[Sinkin' In The Bathtub]]''.
While Bosko was initially what is now considered to be a very offensive character, Rudy and Hugh shortly decided to ditch these racist aspects of him in favor of him being more like an everyman character, from having him own his own businesses, to getting to beat up the occasional ''white'' bad guy -- [[Fair for Its Day|pretty progressive for its time, ain't it?]]
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