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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, November 1962
Jellystone Park is the setting for all four weekend newspaper comics in the Yogi Bear series 50 years ago this month, though Ranger Smith and Boo Boo both get a weekend off. These are taken from the...
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Pixie and Dixie — Price For Mice
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Ken Muse; Layout – Walt Clinton; Backgrounds – Fernando Montealegre; Story – Warren Foster; Story Direction – Alex Lovy; Titles...
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White House Huck, Part 2
Election Day. A day of triumph. A day of disappointment. For Huckleberry Hound, it was a bit of both in Election Year, 1960. Huck’s presidential campaign took off that year, thanks to an off-handed...
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‘Splainin’ the Flintstones
It seems only natural that Joe Barbera would be the one to help sell Hanna-Barbera cartoons to prospective sponsors and viewers. Selling is telling a persuasive story. Barbera had been responsible for...
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Huckleberry Hound — Science Friction
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Ed Love, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Story – Warren Foster, Story Direction – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Farewell, Lucille Bliss
You see to your right two of the best-known cartoon voice actresses around the first decade of the modern era of television (1948 and later). At the left is wonderful June Foray. Sitting in the chair...
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The Rug and Tumble World of Huck and Wally
Some of the most attractive drawings of the cast of The Huckleberry Hound Show aren’t to be found in the cartoons themselves. The Hanna-Barbera studio developed promotional art and product designs....
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Snooper and Blabber — Big Cat Caper
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey, Layout – Paul Sommer, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, November 1962
There are some really tremendous and enjoyable layouts in the Flintstones Sunday comics of November 50 years ago. Due to a lack of access to sources where I’ve been getting these, I doubt I’ll be...
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Giving Credit
Those of you who have the Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear Show DVDs that were released several years ago will know that almost all the cartoons have more than a title card at the start. They have a...
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Yogi Bear — Bears and Bees
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Story – Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Green-Haired Barney Rubble
Barney Rubble’s hair started out as a grey tone. That’s because The Flintstones were originally broadcast in black and white. Then the world learned it was blond once ABC showed the cartoons in colour....
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Augie Doggie — Let’s Duck Out
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Virgil Ross, Layout – Paul Sommer, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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See Quick Draw and Yogi for Christmas
♪♪ Ding Ding, Ding Dong ♫♫ , the Christmas cash registers are ringing. Hanna-Barbera certainly took advantage of the Christmas season. By 1959, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi and even Li’l Tom-Tom dolls were...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics December 1962
If I had to pick a favourite moment of Yogi Bear’s Sunday newspaper adventures 50 years ago this month, it’d have to be Harvey Eisenberg’s final panel of the year. Trying to find decent copies of these...
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Yogi and Daws
A random poll was taken of students at Oak Park-River Forest High in Oak Park, Illinois, and the results were dutifully reported in the local paper on April 13, 1961. The role of inquiring reporter...
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Quick Draw McGraw — El Kabong Meets El Kazing
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Animation – George Nicholas, Layout – Walt Clinton, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Direction – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art Goble,...
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A Trick Question
Time for a quiz. See this bear with the Huckleberry Hound hat? Name the Yogi Bear cartoon he is in: How about this one with the girl with the Paul Sommer eyes and the Tony Rivera 5 o’clock shadow?...
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Pixie and Dixie — High Jinks
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Dick Lundy, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Story – Warren Foster, Story Direction – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, December 1962
It’s a little tough to pick out a favourite panel from the weekend Flintstone comics for this month 50 years ago. The dinosaur reindeer are great, but I love the multiple flipping Freds on December...
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