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The Right Jolly Good Best To You Each Morning
Time for another commercial break. And my guess is this commercial was for English television. If you can read the dialogue in the first panel, Mr Jinks is plugging Kellogg’s Coco Pops. I don’t think...
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Snagglepuss – Paws For Applause
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Don Patterson, Layout – Lance Nolley, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Direction – Art Lozzi, Titles –...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, September 1966
Considering my favourite Flintstones episode is “Dino Goes Hollyrock,” where the hammy Dino gets a showcase, you can guess which comic I liked that appeared in newspapers 50 years ago this month. And...
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El Ka-Ouch
We haven’t talked a lot lately about my favourite Hanna-Barbera cartoon character, Quick Draw McGraw, lately for a couple of reasons. One is all of his cartoons have been reviewed. The other is the...
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To the Moon, Huck!
Here’s a lovely Golden Book from 1960, as Huckleberry Hound leads a failed mission to the Moon, though he never knows it. The artwork is great. Hawley Pratt, Friz Freleng’s long-time layout artist, did...
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Flintstone By Vinci
The Flintstone Flyer is known for two things—it was the first Flintstones cartoon to appear on TV (the 56th anniversary was yesterday), and it features Fred Flintstone’s tippy-toe bowling animation....
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, October 1966
Yogi goes from outsmarted-than-the-average to smarter-than-the average in the course of the Sunday newspaper comics 50 years ago this month. Each comic is full of the usual excellent drawings and...
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Yakky Doodle – It’s a Duck’s Life
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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The Sounds of Jonny Quest
Hoyt Curtin’s crowning achievement at Hanna-Barbera may have been the tracking library he wrote for Jonny Quest. His cues evoked adventure, suspense, danger, triumph, exotic locations and whimsical...
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The British Invasion of Huckleberry Hound
At the start of 1960, there weren’t many options for a Canadian kid who wanted to watch cartoons on TV if their rooftop antenna or set-top rabbit ears didn’t pull in an American station. There was the...
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The Jetsons – Elroy’s Mob
The “Elroy’s Mob” episode of The Jetsons may be best known for one scene—when Kenny Countdown is watching “the billionth rerun of the Flintstones.” It’s a throwaway gag but it’s probably the most...
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Meet The Flintstones (A Lot of Them)
Some people love the Hanna-Barbera characters so much, they amass collections. Some small, some big. Reader Evan Borisinkoff has been collecting Flintstones items for the last 15 years. He’s managed to...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, October 1966
What? How can people in the Stone Age celebrate Hallowe’en? It’s an outrage!! There! Now that I’ve gotten that out of your system, let’s carry on and look at what newspapers published, Flintstones...
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Snagglepuss – Remember Your Lions
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Gil Turner, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Fernando Montealegre, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Paul Sommer,...
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We Hear From Fans Around the World
Hanna-Barbera cartoons are loved the world over, and the proof is in a little list of the countries where our readers come from. At the time this post was written, the bulk of the people who stopped by...
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Run, Jinks, Run
One of the fun things about watching Hanna-Barbera cartoons 50 or so years ago was to see how many times characters ran past the same background. Repeating backgrounds were nothing new in animation;...
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Bill and Joe Meet Norman Rockwell
Surely you remember that great Hanna-Barbera series of the 1970s, Josie and the Pussycats—1,000,000 B.C.? You don’t? Well, that’s because it never got on the air. Starting with something called Nino...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, November 1966
Being the month of American Thanksgiving, it shouldn’t be surprising Yogi Bear has two turkey feasts in his weekend newspaper comics 50 years ago this month. Richard Holliss supplied the tabloid format...
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Yakky Doodle in Full Course Meal
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Don Towsley, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Tony Benedict, Story Director – John Freeman, Titles –...
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They Love Huck and Yogi
Hopalong Cassidy could do it. The Lone Ranger could do it. But you’d think it’d be difficult for cartoon stars to go on location and meet fans like human TV stars. After all, they’re drawings. Ah, but...
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