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Christmas Flintstone
Hanna-Barbera’s first attempt at a Christmas cartoon was “Christmas Flintstone” which aired in a brand-new Friday Flintstones time slot at 7:30 p.m. on December 25, 1964. It was a comparatively...
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Huckleberry Hound — Nuts Over Mutts
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Ed Love; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Story – Warren Foster; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art Goble;...
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A Huckleberry Christmas
Huckleberry Hound never celebrated Christmas on his cartoon show. Seasonal shows were never found in syndication back then. But Christmas could certainly be a plot line in comic books, designed to be...
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Snooper and Blabber — Scoop Snoop
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Lew Marshall, Layout – Paul Sommer, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, January 1963
Perhaps it was a foregone conclusion that the Flintstones would have a child designed by Gene Hazelton in early 1963. The Hanna-Barbera newspaper comics started getting littered with children about the...
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Yogi Bear — A Bear Pair
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Ken Muse, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Story – Warren Foster, Story Direction – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Wipe Your Feet on Jinks and a Ride a Yogi
Friendly and thoughtful readers are again sharing items from the old-time Hanna-Barbera world, so let’s pass them on. Dr. Mark Hill, the Doctor of Pop Culture, sent a note after we posted pictures of...
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See Fred Strike Out
Old storyboard panels are always great fun, but rarely does anyone get to see a full board for any of the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons. But Charles Brubaker has alerted me to one for “Fred Strikes Out”...
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Augie Doggie — Bud Brothers
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Don Patterson, Layout – Paul Sommer, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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See Fred Split
One of Carlo Vinci’s most well-known pieces of animation at Hanna-Barbera is his tippy-toe bowling steps for Fred Flintstone in “The Flintstone Flyer” (1960). Carlo animated the entire cartoon; his...
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Quick Draw McGraw — Scooter Rabbit
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley, Dick Lundy (uncredited), Layout – Paul Sommer, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director –...
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New Home of a Friendly Blog
Over the years, other bloggers have been nice enough to link to this blog. One of them is Kevin Langley, who has been on Blogger for seven years. His blog has been the place to go to view old Tex Avery...
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Yogi Bear, the Second Choice
Yogi Bear almost didn’t get his own TV show. But he did because of Hank Saperstein. The revelation is buried in the pages of Top Cel, the newsletter of the New York local of the Screen Cartoonists....
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, January 1963
It was kind of a blah month in the Sunday pages for the Bedrock gang 50 years ago this month. There are echoes of the TV cartoons in spots. Dino’s on a leash in the January 6th comic. Notice the Dino...
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Pixie and Dixie — Kind to Meeces Week
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey; Layout – Paul Sommer; Background – Vera Hanson; Written by Warren Foster; Story Direction – Alex Lovy; Titles –Art...
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The Art of Art
One of the mysteries of the credits on the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons appears to have been solved. About a year ago, we cobbled together some information about Art Goble, the former M-G-M ink and...
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Huckleberry Hound — Legion Bound Hound
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Ken Muse; Layout – Dick Bickenbach; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Story – Warren Foster; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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At Home With Janet Waldo
If you want an indication of how celebrity gossip has changed over the years, I present as Exhibit ‘A’ this slice of life with Janet Waldo from the Radio-TV Mirror of June 1952. This, of course, was...
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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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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, February 1963
Gene Hazelton must have had kids on the brain 50 years ago this month. He was busy working on Pebbles Flintstone, who was about to born (both as a designer on TV and a story editor in the newspaper...
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