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Bob Guthrie at work

Bob M. Guthrie, or just Bob Guthrie, also known as Spirou on Wikifur, is an American born, European raised artist, cartoonist and animator whose funny animal art style has been a person of interest to the furry community since the late 1980s.

Biography [ edit ]

Bob Guthrie was born in Pasadena, California, USA, before moving to Europe with his family. He started as an assistant artist (inker and penciller) for a handful of comic companies established in Barcelona, Spain, including Editorial Bruguera (before they became Ediciones B).

Military service [ edit ]

Bob Guthrie served with the US Navy from 1985 to 1990 as a Gunner's Mate and Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) specialist.

After finishing his recruit training (Boot Camp) at the Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois, he was separated from active duty to Navy Reserve, serving onboard the Naval Reserve frigate USS Gray (FF-1054),[1] stationed at the Naval Station (NS) Long Beach (Long Beach NSY), California.

Reactivated to active duty in 1986, he was stationed at the Naval Station Great Lakes (NAVSTA Great Lakes), whereas he spent time training at the GM school for the RUR-5 ASROC (Anti-Submarine ROCket) Mark 16 launcher.

After graduating top of his class, he was deployed at the Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, stationed onboard the ASW destroyers USS Claude V. Rickets (DDG-5),[2][3] and USS Barney (DDG 6).[4]

He was honorably discharged on April 16, 1990, returning to Spain.

Civilian life and work [ edit ]

Bob Guthrie returned to the states in 1992 to join the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Santa Clarita, California, whereas he was accepted, but decided against joining after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, where most of the facilities, and the curriculum, was left in shambles, joining Warner Bros. Consumer Product later the next year.

Bob Guthrie lives at the furry house, Hotel Yorba, in Orange County, California, USA, along with artists Steve Martin and Doug Winger (until Winger's passing in 2015). He has attended some furry conventions and meets, and has contributed art to various funny animal media to several publications such as the The American Journal of Anthropomorphics issue 1 (pages 9-14) and issue 2 (pages 37-42), from this location.

He offers part-time curator help with the furry wiki, WikiFur.

Professional works (non-furry) [ edit ]

World of WB/World of Looney Toons poster poster

US and International Space Jam posters. Pencils by Bob Guthrie

Bugs Bunny stamp. Pencils by Bob Guthrie

A former Warner Bros. Consumer Products marketing/character artist, he has worked on several WB projects such as:

Project World of WB/World of Looney Toons, a poster designed along with US animation director and cartoonist Frank Espinosa and Chinese animator and senior character artist San Wei Chan, containing, at one point almost two hundred WB franchise characters. Each character was drawn on a 12 field animation sheet, takin a whole section of WBCP's presentation walls (the background and the giant[*] behind it were drawn by San Wei Chan and colored by American graphic artist, designer, illustrator and painter, David Byrd).

The final shrunken, foldable 11X17 poster was used as a franchise reference style guide for property clients. It was also used in Jerry Beck's Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide, and as a visual reference for animation personnel working on Warner Bros. Feature Animation's 1996 animated feature, Space Jam

Other non-furry works include product and toy design and development for such companies as Mattel, Playmates, Jakks Pacific, Ferrero and Spinmasters, among others, plus character and prop design for several small and large animation studios.

(*) [Unnamed] giant, a character from the Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny WB animated short, Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (June 12, 1943).

(**) Daisy Lou, a character from Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny WB animated short, Hare Splitter (September 25, 1948).

Art [ edit ]

A self-taught modern and classic arts illustrator, he works with various media in [W:Illustration|[illustration]], graphic design, 3D computer graphics, cartooning and animation, with the last one in the sub-fields of animation character design and background artist.

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Media [ edit ]

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