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I don't think that is exactly how Warner Brothers animator Bugs Hardaway first drew the bunny of the same name, but it's good enough for webcomics...
*Cartoon lore: neither Hardaway or anyone else in the studio could think of a name for the character at first, and he was nameless in his first appearance. Then in a staff meeting, somebody said "We should do another toon with Bugs' Bunny" and it stuck.