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Yogi Bear — Iron Hand Jones
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bill Keil, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Mightor, Quick Draw and a Pair of Rangers
Time to clean out the old computer and post sundry Hanna-Barbera-related pictures corralled from various parts of the internet over the last few years. My apologies if any of these are yours and I...
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Snooper and Blabber — Person to Prison
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey, Layout – Jerry Eisenberg, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles –...
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Skeeter Trouble Shakes
Carlo Vinci loved using an old trick from the silent animation days. He’d register emotion by alternating two different drawings of a character, one drawn normally, and the other in a jagged form with...
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Augie Doggie — Party Pooper Pop
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Harry Holt, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Fernando Montealegre, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Lew Marshall,...
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Gentle Backgrounds
Hanna-Barbera had three background artists after the studio opened in 1957, one veteran and two relative newcomers to animation. The veteran was Bob Gentle who, like Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, worked...
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Quick Draw McGraw — The Mark of El Kabong
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: none. Written by Mike Maltese, Titles – Art Goble, Production Supervision – Howard Hanson.Voice Cast: Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey, Don...
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Syndie Moppet Oater No Floppola
Today’s subject header is not a real Variety headline, though it uses some of the peculiar colloquialisms found in the pages of that publication. But it could have been applied to the debut of “The...
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Clementine
Huckleberry Hound never played in the World Series (though he did take on a giant in one cartoon) but that hasn’t stopped him from being part of the Grand Old Game. I don’t know how often ol’ Huck is...
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Scary Junior
Snooper and Blabber ran into ghosts and a witch but the scariest characters they encountered were the J. Evil Scientist family. They appeared in four Snooper cartoons (and, later, in one Snagglepuss)....
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Yogi Bear — Yogi in the City
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Ed Love, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles – Art...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, November 1964
Some nice Ranger Smith expressions and a boo-boo by Boo Boo highlight the Yogi comics in Sunday papers (Saturday in Canada) 50 years ago this month. The low-light may be the native American...
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Frog Mouth
If you were to make a cartoon about a frog mouth, you couldn’t do better than to have George Nicholas animate it. He loved drawing big mouths with big floppy tongues. It just so happened the tenth...
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Pixie and Dixie — Meece Missiles
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Carlo Vinci, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles –...
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Carl Urbano Has Heart(s)
Pat Caldora brought my attention to this photo of Carl Urbano, the veteran animator who spent a good part of his career at Hanna-Barbera. The source of the photo is undetermined, though it sure looks...
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Jerry Mann
Dino talked. We’re referring to the first season episode where a snorkasaurus with a Phil Silvers voice surreptitiously hitches a ride and becomes the Flintstones’ pet/housekeeper. Who played him? If...
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Huckleberry Hound — Bullfighter Huck
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Ken Southworth, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Tony Benedict, Story Director – John Freeman, Titles...
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Little George Jetson
Above you see the opening background drawing for the Jetsons’ cartoon “The Little Man,” the 17th show put into production. And to the right, you see a dialogue page from the opening. Heritage Auctions...
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Snooper and Blabber — Chilly Chiller
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – John Boersma, Layout – Jerry Eisenberg, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles...
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Fibber Fox Chases Yakky Doodle Forever
Running and chasing are ingrained in the DNA of animated cartoons going back to the days of silent film. So it’s no surprise you find pursuits all over the place in Hanna-Barbera cartoons (especially...
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