The Ant and the Aardvark on demand service Amazon Video. When "The Ant and the Aardvark" first appeared on "The New Pink Panther Show" in the fall of 1971, the series became wildly popular, so much in fact that the duo became a featured part of the NBC series. Even though the 17 entries remained popular throughout the broadcast run of "The Pink Panther Show", no new entries were produced. The series used several unique production techniques for the period. The aardvark's body was solid blue: his only clothes—a pair of blue shorts and matching T-shirt—were a matching blue. Similarly, Charlie Ant was solid red,
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