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Snooper and Blabber — Hop To It
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Ken Muse, Layout – Walt Clinton, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art Goble,...
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Ads and Alfy
Time to empty some of the mailbox and see what readers have sent. And we’ll have an extra treat at the end. Billie Towzer has made another journey around the internet and passes on some ads for...
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Yogi Bear — Gleesome Threesome
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Carlo Vinci, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Story – Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, February 1963
Little Pebbles Flintstone’s birth (on February 22, 1963) didn’t just take up a half hour of TV time. It was heralded in the Flintstones newspaper comics, both the dailies and weekend editions. The...
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Augie Doggie — Pint Giant
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Animation – Dick Lundy, Bob Carr (uncredited); Layout – Paul Sommer; Backgrounds – Fernando Montealegre; Story – Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex...
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I Hear Voices
You hear their voices on cartoons but, of course, you never see them. They’re the great voice actors that Hanna-Barbera hired. Most of them had training in the days of radio drama and comedy before...
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Quick Draw McGraw — Yippee Coyote
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Animation – Dick Lundy; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – ?; Story – Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art Goble; Production...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, March 1963
Ranger Smith returns to Jellystone Park after a number of weeks off—in the comics, at least. He appears in two of the five colour comics pages published in papers on Sunday (Saturday in Canada) 50...
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Pixie and Dixie — Woo For Two
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bob Carr; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Bob Gentle; Story – Warren Foster; Story Direction – Alex Lovy; Titles – Lawrence...
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The Man Who Met Snagglepuss Only Once
Many people from animation’s Golden Age eventually punched time cards at Hanna-Barbera during its first dozen years. Some stayed for long periods. Others seem to have worked on a cartoon or two,...
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Huckleberry Hound — Huck Hound’s Tale
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Ed de Mattia; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Story – Warren Foster; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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Selling Birthdays and Corn Flakes
It’s one thing to come up with loveable cartoons characters, and it’s another to package them into a programme that sponsors and stations want to pick up (and kids want to watch). But it’s yet another...
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More About Yogi's Birthday Party
Here’s a fine, full-page cover for the Sunday supplement of the Miami News of October 1, 1961 where there’s a little bit more information about the airing of the Yogi Bear Birthday Party cartoon on...
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Snooper and Blabber — Fleas Be Careful
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Lew Marshall, Layout – Paul Sommer, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Ruff, Reddy and a Cat on a Stick
Most people think of “Ruff and Reddy” in purely historical terms. The show comes up when the origins of the Hanna-Barbera studio are reviewed. Few people really consider it to have entertainment value....
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, March 1963
Little Pebbly-Poo didn’t dominate the Flintstones Sunday comics in the weeks after she was born. For the month of March, she entered into plot of only one comic and made a cameo appearance in the...
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Yogi Bear — Genial Genie
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Dick Lundy, Layout – Paul Sommer, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Don Messick Goes Home
It’s a long way from the oyster grounds of Chesapeake Bay to the sound stages of California’s film studios—but that’s the trip that Don Messick made. Members of the Messick family had been harvesting...
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Augie Doggie — Patient Pop
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Dick Lundy; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Bob Gentle; Story – Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, April 1963
Frolicking Disney-like animals are not something you’d usually see in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, though a number of the studio’s artists had worked for Disney. But that’s partly because of the fiscal...
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