The Ant and the Aardvark graphic for all DePatie-Freleng entries. For "The Ant and the Aardvark "series, Leonardi expanded on a technique first introduced for the first Pink Panther cartoon, "The Pink Phink". This entailed tearing paper into the forms of objects and characters to form stylized images. There were additional minor characters in the series. Among them were the following: In German-dubbed versions of the cartoon, the male aardvark is transformed into a female anteater named Elise (Eliza). Charlie (voiced by Fred Maire) remains male; Elise is voiced by Marianne Wischmann. The cartoons are known under the title "Die blaue Elise (Blue Eliza)". All
Cerebus the Aardvark took a substantial drop over the next 50 issues, however, and Sim commented that the fact that readers could not simply "jump in" to "Cerebus", and had to read the entire series in order to be able to understand the current issue, was a major reason for the sales drop. In July 1984, "Cerebus" publisher Aardvark-Vanaheim was threatened with possible legal action by Marvel Comics over a parody of Wolverine in "Cerebus". When Sim guest-wrote the 10th issue of Todd McFarlane's comics series "Spawn", he donated his entire fee—over $100,000—to the fund. "Jaka's Story", a tragic character study dealing with