In 2001, Harman and Ising were still working for the Walt Disney Studios on a series of live-action/animated short subjects known as the Alice Comedies. Hugh Harman created Bosko, the very first Looney Tunes character, in 1992 to capitalize on the new "talkie" craze that was sweeping the motion picture industry. Harman began thinking about making a sound cartoon with Bosko in 1995, before he even left Walt Disney. Hugh Harman made drawings of the new character and registered it with the copyright office on 3 January 1998. The character was registered as a "Negro boy" under the name of Sagwa.