Peter Alvarado

American animator and comic book illustrator, trained at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Alvarado began as assistant animator with Walt Disney (1937-39). Following military service (1942-46), he joined Warner Brothers as a background & layout artist. For the next six years, he contributed to many of the Foghorn Leghorn, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny cartoons and is credited as having designed the original backgrounds for the first Road Runner short, Fast and Furry-ous (1949). From 1948, he sidelined doing comic book art work (along with the three McKimson brothers) for Western Publishing, as well as drawing cartoons for Disney, Hanna-Barbera, Walter Lantz and Warner Brothers newspaper strips. Alvarado also continued to work in animation as layout artist for DePatie/Freleng (primarily on 'Pink Panther' cartoons, 1967-70) , Hanna-Barbera (including 'Tom & Jerry', 'The Flintstones' and 'Scooby-Doo', 1970-77,1982, 1989-90), Ruby-Spears Productions and Filmation Associates.