Mel Blanc, the "man of a thousand voices", died on
July 10, 1989.  He was the voice of many famous
cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy
Duck.

Sometime soon after he died I saw a single-frame
comic somewhere, I think in black & white, showing
a tombstone with Mel Blanc's
name on it, and a bunch of his famous cartoon characters
standing around looking at it.  The characters have a
collective word-bubble, but there's nothing in it.
(Like they have no voice.)

How can I get a copy of this cartoon? I'm pretty sure
it was in a magazine, but I'm not even sure of that.

AND, to make things infinitely worse, Warner Brothers
issued a tribute to Mel Blanc which is a color print,
showing a bunch of cartoon characters standing around
a microphone stand that is in the center of a spotlight,
but nobody is there.  This print is called "Speechless",
and it is unfortunately NOT the comic that I saw.

Any ideas on how one goes about finding such a thing?
I've spent a few hours here and there web-surfing, and
found things like Mel Blanc's obituary, a picture of
his real tombstone, various people selling the
"Speechless" print, but zippo on the actual quest object.

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Request for Question Clarification by xargon-ga on 03 Dec 2002 18:06 PST

Do you have any idea which magazines or periodicals you may have been
reading at the time?  Any list would help!

An hour of searching and all I could come up with was this :

http://artgal.hypermart.net/images/friz_trib.jpg

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020224

This is indeed a tough request :-)

SgtCory

I know the first one is not Mel Blanc - I just thought it might jog
your memory. It was the closet I could find for now. I'll keep my eyes
open.

Hi,

Thanks for looking into this; seems most of my life I have been
interested in things that are somewhat off the beaten track.  I
don't think this'll help much, but I know the cartoon wasn't in
any magazine that I subscribed to or bought, else I would have
cut it out.  As best as I can remember, it was something I picked
up and looked through, like in a dentist's office or something.

Sorry I can't be more specific...