10 Facts About Bunny Matthews

Will Bunn "Bunny" Matthews III was an American cartoonist and writer from the Greater New Orleans Area.

Bunny Matthews is best known for his depictions of New Orleans characters and local dialect, especially Vic and Nat'ly Broussard.

Bunny Matthews's family moved to the New Orleans suburb of Metairie when he was three years old.

Bunny Matthews graduated from East Jefferson High School in Metairie, and afterwards worked at Jim Russell Records before enrolling at the University of New Orleans.

In light of these characters' sometimes unfavorable reception, it bears noting that Bunny Matthews has often and repeatedly described others' use of the word "Yat" as derogatory.

Bunny Matthews's monumental painting, "Nint'Wardica," based on Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" and inspired by the BP oil disaster in 2010, was displayed at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

Bunny Matthews composed album liner notes for artists including Smiley Lewis, The Meters, Earl King and James Booker, with whom Matthews was close friends until his death in 1983.

Bunny Matthews was editor of the New Orleans entertainment magazine OffBeat from 1999 to 2005.

Bunny Matthews married Deborah Murphy was born on 1961 and on October 11,1986.

Bunny Matthews died in hospice care at Wynhoven Health Care Center in Marrero on June 1,2021, of central nervous system lymphoma, at the age of 70.