Pierre the French Rat

Pierre the French Rat was one of Jim Henson's first puppets, and the oldest surviving today. Pierre was created in a comic strip that Henson drew for his high school yearbook in 1954 -- and when he had the opportunity to create puppets for The Junior Morning Show in 1954, Pierre was embodied as a puppet made of plastic wood.
Pierre later appeared in Sam and Friends.
The Pierre puppet is held by the Jim Henson Company Archives; it's been put on display in traveling exhibits.
The original Pierre comic strip, "Pierre the French Rat Visits NHS," is reprinted in the 2001 book Jim Henson's Designs and Doodles.
Image:Pierre-cartoon01.gif|Henson's drawing of Pierre from his high school comic strip.
Image:Hensonpierre.jpg|Pierre comic strip.
Image:Character.pierre.jpg|Pierre on display at the Designs and Doodles exhibit in 2003.
Image:Valuepierre.jpg|A crudely-drawn Pierre in the book The Value of Imagination.
==See also==
*Pierre (Anything Muppet)
*Pierre (frog), from the Japanese Sesame Street
*Pierre LaCousse
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