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Say Cheese, Huck!
“I’m pop-a-lar. Mighty pop-a-lar,” Huckleberry Hound might say. And he’d be right. Critics loved his show when it debuted in 1958; we’ve posted a number of old columns here. But Huck kind of became the...
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Lah Land
Mike Lah was quoted in Didier Ghez’ Walt’s People, Vol. 11 that he was freelancing at Quartet Films in 1957 after the MGM cartoon studio closed and “was supposed to be a part” of the ownership group of...
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Yogi Bear—Queen Bee For a Day
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Don Williams, Layout – Dan Noonan, Backgrounds – Nina Maxwell, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles –...
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Flintstones Comics, March 1965
Do you know a kid who sticks cookies through the mail slot for the mailman? Did you used to do it? Evidently Gene Hazelton, or whoever wrote the Flintstones newspaper comic strips must have. It’s a...
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Fun With Frees
Paul Frees was one of a kind. Paul Frees was larger than life. Clichés, yes, but both statements are true. I love Frees. Arguably, his best cartoon work was done at the Jay Ward studio as Boris...
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Walking With Jinks
“Limited animation” doesn’t have to mean “uninteresting animation.” Lots of TV commercials produced in the 1950s proved that. And the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons had some interesting animation, too....
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Advice from Yogi and Wilma
Here’s a little something for Daws Butler fans. Hanna-Barbera got together with the U.S. National Safety Council in 1973 and put together a record featuring the studio’s characters giving safety advice...
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Riding the Barbecue
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera were great borrowers. You’ve no doubt heard all kinds of debates about Flintstones/Honeymooners. Suffice it to say, Bill and Joe took basic concepts from wherever they could...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, April 1965
You all remember the cartoon “Stop That Bear!” where Dick Dastardly sent Muttley to Jellystone Park to capture Yogi. Okay, it never happened. Before there was Muttley, there was Mugger, the snickering...
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Slumber Party Smarty Pans
Here are the opening two pan shots of “Slumber Party Smarty,” one of the earliest Yogi Bear cartoons put into production in 1958 (Yogi still has a mask around his eyes). Fernando Montealegre is...
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Yogi Bear — Beast Feast
Here’s the full set of story panels for a Yogi Bear cartoon that was apparently never made. “Beast Feast” was given the production number of R-88, so it would have been written for “The Yogi Bear Show”...
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Astro's Writer Speaks
For those of us who watched our favourite cartoons over and over again in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the idea of being able to read about them from the people who made them was inconceivable. Life changes....
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Here Comes a Star or Six
It’s a brilliant marketing concept if you think about it. A half-hour show, funded by one sponsor, that’s a commercial for a half-hour show funded by the same sponsor. That’s what Hanna-Barbera worked...
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The Making of Huck
Until Huckleberry Hound came around and started receiving universal raves, not an awful lot of attention was paid to TV cartoons by 1958. A notable exception was the “McBoing Boing Show” on CBS, but...
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Flintstones Comics, April 1965
The preponderance of Pebbles and Postman continued in the Flintstones daily comics 50 years ago this month (this post actually starts with the comic of March 29, 1965). The writer(s) started using...
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Yogi Time
When did Yogi Bear eclipse Huckleberry Hound as Hanna-Barbera’s number one star? 1960, I suspect. Huck may have been running for president that year (with Yogi as a campaign manager), but that was also...
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Harvey
The picture to the right tells more about the future of animation than you may realise. It is of the Terrytoons staff and was taken between late February and mid June 1936. Late February is when George...
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Yogi Bear — Bear Foot Soldiers
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley, Layout – Iwao Takamoto, Backgrounds – Neenah Maxwell, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles...
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Yowp Sightings
Hi, Yowp here. You know my story. I appeared in three Yogi Bear cartoons. Then Joe Barbera told me, “We’re going in a different direction. Yogi, Ranger Smith, Boo Boo and Jellystone Park. No room for...
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Hit the Road, Huck
A 20-inch screen wasn’t enough to contain Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw and sidekicks. Hanna-Barbera’s characters appeared on and off the screen. The characters were available for...
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