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Great Moments in Acting With Chatterly the Cat
Loopy De Loop cartoons are full of concepts that Hanna-Barbera did far better earlier, but a few of them contain little gems. The final Loopy cartoon released by Columbia in the 1964-65 theatrical...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, August 1964
Before we get to our post, here is a short “programming note.” Fans of the Yogi weekend comics we’ve been posting here will be pleased to note we will be able to carry on for another month, though the...
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Huckleberry Hound — Bars and Stripes
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – John Boersma; Layout – Jim Carmichael; Backgrounds – Art Lozzi; Written By Tony Benedict; Story Director – John Freeman; Titles...
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Why No Daws
Daws Butler was Hanna-Barbera’s premier voice actor through the 1950s. And then things changed. “The Flintstones” came along. Although Daws cut a dialogue track for Fred Flintstone on a demo reel using...
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Snooper and Blabber — Eenie, Genie, Minie, Mo!
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Animation – C.L. Hartman, Written by Mike Maltese, Titles – Art Goble, Production Supervision – Howard Hanson (BCDB credits).Voice Cast: Snooper,...
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Neenah and the Pink Window Shade
The artist responsible for this background painting had an indirect connection to Bill Hanna from before she was born. This is from the Snagglepuss cartoon “Be My Ghost,” and the background artist is...
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Augie Doggie — Vacation Tripped
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – John Boersma, Layout – Noel Tucker, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Direction – John Freeman, Titles –...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, September 1964
Ranger Smith got the month off from the Yogi Bear comics as the summer of ‘64 wore down. But September means back-to-school time, so we get cute kids in two of the four Sunday editions. Click to...
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A Hanna-Barbera Miscellany
Time to clean out a folder of drawings of the early Hanna-Barbera characters I’ve corralled from various parts of the internet. I didn’t make a notation of where most of this came from; it may been...
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Yogi Bear — Missile Bound Yogi
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – C.L. Hartman, Layout – Dan Noonan, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Are You Loopy For Loopy?
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera won seven Oscars with cartoons starring Tom and Jerry. They won none with Loopy De Loop. Let’s face it. Loopy cartoons just aren’t that great, certainly not compared with...
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Park Avenue Indians
Anyone recognise the characters in this drawing by Ed Benedict? The only series I can think of featuring native Americans never got off the ground. And it kicked around Hanna-Barbera for two years....
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Quick Draw McGraw — Mine Your Manners
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley, Dick Lundy (uncredited); Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Art Lozzi; Written by Mike Maltese; Story Director –...
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Shadow of the Condor
Background, layout artists and cameramen played an important role in setting the right mood for “Jonny Quest.” The layout people came up with different angles to mimic adventure comic strips so it...
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An 11-Year-Old Turns 50
“Jonny Quest” was great. And still is. I was seven years old when the show debuted 50 years ago tonight. I was not an action-adventure fan (and I’m still not), but I was a cartoon fan, so I tuned in....
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Pixie and Dixie — Mouse Trapped
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Ken O’Brien, Layout – Lance Nolley, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – John Freeman, Titles –...
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Family of the Future Still Here Today
It’s a tribute to Hanna-Barbera studio that today, when we refer to the future, we refer to the past as well. Read a newspaper or web story about a technologically advanced home or kitchen gadget or...
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Huckleberry Hound — Huck dé Paree
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Ken Southworth, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Tony Benedict, Story Director – Lew Marshall, Titles –...
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Blab Book
I mentioned a number of weeks ago that the original voice of Blabber Mouse, Elliot Field, had written his autobiography. Here’s a little note about getting his book on-line (I make no money from this...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, October 1964
Some smiles but no big laughs in the Yogi Bear Sunday comics (Saturday in Canada) 50 years ago this month. I suspect Harvey Eisenberg drew these; it’s a shame I can’t find better versions on the...
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