June Foray, the First Lady of Cartoon Voices, is being honored this year with the Comic-Con Icon Award. This is the award that in years past has gone to folks like Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, George Lucas, Stan Lee and Ray Bradbury. June is being saluted for a lifetime of iconic vocal work, most notably as Rocky the Flying Squirrel (and most of the females in Jay Ward cartoons) and thousands of other roles in cartoons, commercials, film dubbing, comedy records and plenty of other places. She is still working (at age 94!) on The Looney Tunes Show and The Garfield Show. No one is more deserving.
Matter of fact, June received the honor last night at the taping of the Scream Awards at the Universal Amphitheater. The show airs Tuesday at 9 PM on Spike TV and I think also on VH1 with many reruns the rest of the month. Tune in and see June get the trophy in front of an audience that was probably all zombies and monsters.