Zak

Zak is a black-and-white male cat in "Bush and Looney Original Shorts", originally simply titled "Bush and Looney". He is overall an unskilled chauvinist, and most of his cartoons were against the mallet-wielding female squirrel, Squirrelly. Their first cartoon was the 1931 cartoon, "A Squirrel Friday", where he tries to tear down a tree in his yard, makes some misogynistic comments with the female squirrel who lives in the tree, and gets conked on the head with a mallet. Squirrelly becomes the antagonist for the rest of it and Zak finds himself unable to leave his home without the threat of being hit on the head and beaten up. He would continue to star alongside Squirrelly frequently, and was also inducted into the Kitty Concert in the 1936 short, entitled The Kitty Concert, with Bush, Looney, Little-Kitty, Ai-Ai, and the lead singer Kitty. These shorts were wildly popular and eventually began to feature Pawprint and Dee in 1953. With these appearances, he also battled Ai-Ai as the "toughest cat on the block" in some shorts, and also became romantically-linked with Skittle-Kitty, but failed in obtaining her because of his chauvinistic ways. He went on to star in 213 cartoons, the eighth most appearing character, after Bush, Looney, Otty, Little-Kitty, Peenut, Keyareva, and Skipper in that order. In the modernized Bush and Looney, he is one of the mainest characters and is still featured in The Kitty Concert.