I recently bought a new purse and it has a picture of a cartoon skunk on it.
Is it the cartoon character Pepe Le Pew?  
It is! My boyfriend thought it looked cute, so he told me to buy it.
Pepé Le Pew
Pepé Le Pew is a character from the Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons, first introduced in 1945. (Note: the correct spelling is "Pue", as in French for "stink", but does not have an English counterpart. "Pew", a chapel bench, has gained popularity because of its similarity in sound, though linguistically dissimilar.) Depicted as a French striped skunk, Pepé is constantly in search of love and appreciation. However
Grant – all apocryphal lines. Boyer hated being reduced in that way, believing that it demeaned him as an actor.
In some part, the lampoon of Boyer spread owing to its use by "Looney Tunes" cartoon character Pepé Le Pew, himself a spoof of Boyer as Pépé le Moko. The amorous skunk used "Come with me to ze Casbah" as a pickup line. In 1954, the "Looney Tunes" cartoon "The Cat's Bah" which specifically spoofed "Algiers", the skunk enthusiastically