>>And let's not forget Asterix and the Smurfs - though the latter have been done by Hanna-Barbera. I remember reading Smurfs in 1961, and there weren't any of Smurfette or Gargamel. I'm not sure, but they sound like something added for the cartoon.
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>But there is/was all sorts of cartoons in North America that were non-violent for kids too. If you strictly accept that Bugs and Wiley are the only American cartoons characters, then you can get an awfully distorted view.

They are the most exported ones. We had a lot of Tom & Jerry, Duffy and Bugs, Wiley & RR, Speedy Gonzales, Hillbilly Bears, Secret Squirrel, Foghorn Leghorn and a bunch of others. I'm well aware that Foghorn is as non-violent as it gets (i.e. just an occasional anvil :); there were also a few Smurfs spinoffs like those underwater creatures with snorkels, Ewoks (yep saw those too), but generally the first four make the most of what we grew up with.

BTW, are there any comics here without superheros? Looking at the shelves from time to time, I don't see anything but. The one cult classic in all of ex-Yu is, believe it or not, Alan Ford, an Italian black comic, which was probably more popular than in Italy itself. It was even put on the scene in Belgrade - I saw only a couple of pictures from the performance and that itself was hilarious. Imagine when a political comment on elections campaign in a serious newsmagazine begins with a quote from the comic: "If you mean to win, you must not lose".