Bunny Matthews, cartoonist & creator of Vic and Nat’ly, dies at 70
A self-taught artist, Matthews created the fictional New Orleans Yat couple for The Times-Picayune 40 years ago and was also a talented music & feature writer. Author: Dominic Massa / WWL-TV Updated: 12:50 PM CDT June 1, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Bunny Matthews, the prolific New Orleans cartoonist and writer whose iconic Vic and Nat’ly characters illustrated the dialects and quirks of the city’s people for more than 40 years, died Tuesday of complications from cancer. He was 70.
Matthews was diagnosed with a form of brain cancer in 2015. Complications from surgery to remove a tumor in his skull left him with a stroke-like paralysis. He recovered and his cancer went into remission but he suffered more setbacks. His wife Debbie was diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma in 2017 and died the following year. When Matthews’ disease returned soon after, his son Jude said