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Pixie and Dixie — Home Flea Storyboard
“Home Flea” was one of the last Pixie and Dixie cartoons put into production for the 1961-62 season. It underwent a few changes from conception to finished cartoon. For one thing, it was originally...
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Why Did “The Jetsons” Fail?
It seems odd calling the show a failure. New episodes were made in the ‘80s. There was an animated feature film. And it’s still part of the popular culture for people of certain ages. References to the...
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Lion-Hearted Huck Backgrounds
Fernando Montealegre was one of a number of MGM émigrés to the new Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio in 1957; he had received credits for background art in the Droopy cartoons directed by Mike Lah during...
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Can a Show Compare to Yogi Bear? Hey, Hey, Hey!
TV critics loved Yogi Bear twice. They fawned with delight when he debuted on “The Huckleberry Hound Show” in 1958 and then again when he got his own show in 1961. Today marks 54 years since “The Yogi...
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Yogi Bear — Batty Bear
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley, Layout – Ernie Nordli, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles –...
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A Slice of the Life of Janet Waldo
It’s perhaps a little odd that Janet Waldo is celebrating a birthday today because she really is ageless. She sounds no different in the last interview I heard her give than she did when she was...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, February 1965
A guest appearance by Quick Draw McGraw highlights the Yogi Bear Sunday comics from 50 years ago this month. I’ve come to the conclusion I’m in the minority. I like it when one of the Kellogg’s gang...
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Run, Pixie, Run!
Hanna-Barbera didn’t invent the idea of characters running past the same window or houses or grove of trees over and over again, but it happened so often in the studio’s cartoons that even kids...
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The Iwao Book, Living With A Legend
If I had to pick my favourite character designer at Hanna-Barbera, it’d be no contest. This blog is devoted to the studio’s earliest cartoons, all of which were brightened by the hand and imagination...
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Bill Schipek
“Bill and Joe trusted him implicitly with running their studio.” That’s what cartoonist and animation layout man Pete Alvarado said about Bill Schipek, who spent a number of years as the production...
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The Huck's Hack Comic
Huckleberry Hound appeared in Little Golden Books and Dell Comics, but he made another unexpected appearance in print. Jack and Jill was a kids publication back in the days when people bought...
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He's Insegrevious
“Space Ghost” was part of Hanna-Barbera’s all-too-brief run of adventure cartoons on Saturday mornings. Those cartoons still have extremely loyal fans. I’m not much of a “Space Ghost” fan—take away the...
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Flintstones Comics, February 1965
One of the fun things about “The Flintstones” on TV was an animal-turned-into-an-appliance turning to the audience and saying some tired crack about its job. We almost get that in the Flintstones daily...
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Let’s Start a Cartoon Studio
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera didn’t just wake up one day and open a cartoon studio. I would hope everyone reading here knows the basic story—Bill and Joe weren’t shy in telling it over and over in the...
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Yogi Bear — Threadbare Bear
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley, Layout – Ernie Nordli, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles –...
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H-B Odds and Sods
Time to post some Hanna-Barbera image files sitting in my computer. I’ve made no notations where I got some of them. A sadistic kid rode Yogi Bear in “Daffy Daddy,” so I guess this toy that’s seen...
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Hey There, It's Mel Crawford
Mel Crawford didn’t animate any of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but he was intimately familiar with many of the studio’s early characters. Word has come from Jerry Beck about Mel’s death. Read more at...
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Pixie and Dixie's Unmade Uncle Egghead
Remember the cartoon where Pixie and Dixie called on their Uncle Egghead, who gives them an electromagnet that Jinks swallows (thinking it’s candy) and then all kinds of metal becomes attracted to him?...
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Yogi Bear Comics, March 1965
It’s always nice to see Huckleberry Hound pay a visit to Yogi Bear, though Huck probably wishes he hasn’t, judging by the punch line of the comic that ran in papers on the first weekend of March, 50...
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They Sang For Fred Flintstone
Here’s Fred Flintstone peeking at the voice of Fred Flintstone, and he may be a little confused. That’s because the guy at the microphone isn’t Alan Reed, who provided Fred’s voice during the run of...
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