Icon Award: June Foray

Filed in Animation, Awards, Media | , October 17, 2011 11:12 am

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June Foray has been announced as the winner of this year’s Icon Award by Comic-Con. The Icon Award is presented to individuals who have been instrumental in bringing comics and/or the popular arts to a wider audience. Foray is a voice artist who has long worked in the field and may be best known for providing the voices of Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Granny, and Witch Hazel, among many others. Beginning in the Tex Avery short Wacky Wildlife in 1940, Foray still works, currently voicing characters on The Garfield Show and The Looney Toons Show. She published her autobiography in 2009.

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  1. GaryM — October 18, 2011 @ 9:12 am

    She’s still active? That’s impressive! I grew up with Rocky and Bullwinkle.

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