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Yakky Doodle – Duck Hunting
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley; Layout – Lance Nolley; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Written by Warren Foster; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles –...
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Some Notes About Top Cat
The success of The Flintstones in 1960 begat a number of other prime time cartoons the following season. All of them were single-season failures. One was Top Cat, which found life in reruns. The trade...
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Jetsons – Miss Solar System
Mention the cartoon “Miss Solar System,” and the first thing that will pop into someone’s head is the “Bill Spacely” song belted out by Jane Jetson. But Barry Blitzer’s story is chock-full of early...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, March 1966
Someone at the Hanna-Barbera comic art department tried a little experiment 50 years ago this month. At least it appears that way. Unfortunately, the scans I have of the comics for March 1966 aren’t...
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Snagglepuss – Footlight Fright
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley; Layout – Walt Clinton; Backgrounds – Fernando Montealegre; Written by Mike Maltese; Story Director – John Freeman;...
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Prime Time Huckleberry Hound
Hanna-Barbera’s syndicated shows for Kellogg’s—Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw and Yogi Bear—appeared in the early evening hours, a perfect spot for them in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The...
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Mark of the Mouse Cycles
I really enjoy the way Carlo Vinci handled cycle animation in the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons. In a bunch of cartoons, he had different kinds of cycles with something interesting going on; it wasn’t...
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Quick Draw McGraw and Bronco Bart
A month ago, we posted a Huckleberry Hound story from the Hanna-Barbera Golden Book Treasury, a compilation of various Hanna-Barbera stories that were published in Golden Books for kids. I love Quick...
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Yakky Doodle – Baddie Buddies
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Dick Lundy; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Written by Tony Benedict; Story Director – Lew Marshall; Titles –...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, April 1966
Yogi vs Ranger Smith. Cindy vs Yogi. And Yogi demonstrating he’s smarter than the average bear. That pretty much sums up the Sunday Yogi Bear newspaper comics from 50 years ago this month. One lovely...
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Jetsons – Las Venus
Why can’t sitcom characters just be honest? Why can’t they say “Honey, the boss has forced me to have dinner tonight with a female client to get a contact signed”? No, sitcom writers would rather drag...
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Hecky, Ghosts and Augie Doggie
This blog was started ages ago because of stock music cues. The intention was to have a place on the internet listing the library music heard behind the cartoons in The Huckleberry Hound Show’s first...
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The Cry of Pinky
We’ve used up our supply of complete storyboards, but still have some spare story panels around. Here are three sheets from the Ruff and Reddy cartoon Hot Shot’s Plot, the second adventure in the...
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Snagglepuss – One Two Many
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Don Towsley, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – John Freeman, Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, April 1966
Gene Hazelton’s letterer was starting to experiment with calligraphy in the Flintstones’ Sunday comics about 50 years ago. We saw one example in one of the Sundays in March 1966 and we can see more...
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View-Master Views
Cartoons and comic books weren’t the only media where you’d find little adventures of the great early Hanna-Barbera characters. You’d find them on View-Master reels as well. When I was a kid, it took a...
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TV Guide Guides You To Huck
Huckleberry Hound was the Ike Eisenhower of cartoons. “I Like Ike” went the saying. And it seems everyone liked Huck, too (and come to think of it, he did run for president, didn’t he?). The...
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Boo Boo and the V.I.V.
Boo Boo never got the spotlight in the Yogi Bear cartoons on TV (though Carlo Vinci gave him some fine angular poses in The Buzzin’ Bruin) but he did in one of the Whitman books called Boo Boo and the...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, May 1966
Yes, Yogi Bear can talk. And, yes, he eats sandwiches, pizzas and roast chickens (and puts ketchup on his “fillet mignonnies”). And, yes, he can drive a jeep and pilot a helicopter. I can accept all...
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Yakky Doodle – Whistle-Stop and Go
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Art Davis, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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