This acrylic earring design celebrates the 1988 opening of the Crescent City Connection, or as Vic and Nat’ly called it, “Da new bridge.”
New Orleans cartoonist Bunny Matthews designed quirky earrings for Nat’ly — one half of his iconic Ninth Ward comic duo, Vic and Nat’ly — that featured in their appearances on WYES‑TV’s Steppin’ Out from 1988 to ’98. Local artist Emma Fick brings Nat’ly’s cartoon chic to life with these wearable reproductions.
Produced for the Historic New Orleans Collection’s 2026–27 exhibition Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions.
- Acrylic
- Post/stud closure
- Vic and Nat’ly Crescent City Connection cartoon, 1988; ink and colored pencil on paper, by Bunny Matthews; aired on Steppin’ Out, September 30, 1988; HNOC, acquisition made possible by the Laussat Society, 2022.0218.1.224
This acrylic earring design celebrates the 1988 opening of the Crescent City Connection, or as Vic and Nat’ly called it, “Da new bridge.”
New Orleans cartoonist Bunny Matthews designed quirky earrings for Nat’ly — one half of his iconic Ninth Ward comic duo, Vic and Nat’ly — that featured in their appearances on WYES‑TV’s Steppin’ Out from 1988 to ’98. Local artist Emma Fick brings Nat’ly’s cartoon chic to life with these wearable reproductions.
Produced for the Historic New Orleans Collection’s 2026–27 exhibition Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions.
- Acrylic
- Post/stud closure
- Vic and Nat’ly Crescent City Connection cartoon, 1988; ink and colored pencil on paper, by Bunny Matthews; aired on Steppin’ Out, September 30, 1988; HNOC, acquisition made possible by the Laussat Society, 2022.0218.1.224