Senior Illustrator, Warner Bros. Creative Services

Senior Illustrator at Warner Bros. Creative Services, creating style guides and art for Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera.

Wikipedia and Playbill agree on the 1991–2002 Warner Bros. Creative Services tenure.

Tasks included illustrations, backgrounds, and character style systems across Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera properties.

Byrd rejected “selling out” critiques — telling Vanity Fair, in substance, that commercial work is still art.

Chapter placement: Commercial systems (1991–2002). This internal article expands the timeline card so “Read full article” never dead-ends on a teaser.

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Sources used for this article: Wikipedia; Playbill; Vanity Fair interview (2015) cited on Wikipedia.

For magazine and trade obituaries covering the full career arc and February 3, 2025 Albuquerque death, open the imported Press articles (Playbill, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Ultimate Classic Rock, Amsel tribute, NYT record).