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A Ruff Stone
Joe Barbera was a man of many talents. He was quick sketch artist and an able story man. He was a super salesman of the studio’s product (he could sell a network on a cartoon series even when he didn’t...
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Yogi Bear's Birthday Party
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe BarberaStarring the Voices of Daws ButlerCo-Starring Voices of Don Messick and Doug YoungOther Voices: Julie Bennett, Duke MitchellMusical Director: Hoyt...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, July 1967
Fred and/or Wilma are pretty much the focus in the Flintstones newspaper comics in the weekend section of the newspapers 50 years ago this month. Dino doesn’t appear and neither does Betty Rubble. But...
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June Foray in Rhyming Verse
Up until 1959, female characters in Hanna-Barbera cartoons were handled by Don Messick or Daws Butler. The two of them could voice anything, meaning the studio didn’t have to use up its budget hiring...
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Baseball Bear
“Fireballer” Yogi indulges in the National Pastime in one of the 20-second vignettes before a cartoon. He urges us to watch his curveball. He tosses it and wonders where it’s gone. He soon finds out....
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, August 1967
Here’s something a little different for Yogi. One of the comic strip writers came up with a four-day storyline that ran all through the month of August 50 years ago. The plot isn’t anything that new....
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Yakky Doodle in Stamp Scamp
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – C.L. Hartman, Layout – Lance Nolley, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles –...
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What is "The Flintstone Syndrome" Anyway?
It may be the most unusual newspaper article about The Flintstones. It was the cover story in the “TV Week” section of the Chicago Tribune, July 14, 1962. A chap named Robert Anderson humorously talks...
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Snagglepuss in Lions Share Sheriff
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – George Nicholas, Layout – Lance Nolley, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles –...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, August 1967
Betty Rubble really was the Trixie Norton of the Flintstones. On The Honeymooners, all the action centred around Ralph and Alice or Ralph and Norton. What was there for Trixie to do? She was Alice’s...
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Yakky Doodle in Foxy Duck
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Art Davis, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles – Art...
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Those Cockamamie Characters
Yes, kids, you could have Yowp tattooed onto your arm. Fortunately, parents, it’s not permanent. Back when I was young, you could buy a sheet of inked drawings that you could put on your body and wash...
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A Long Little Doggie
Like the Huck and Yogi half-hours, the Quick Draw McGraw Show had those little cartoons between the cartoons. Here are some frames, in what looks like an Eastmancolor print that’s really gone red....
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Three Mixed-Up Mooses
You know the creative process works. An idea gets batted around until it seems to work. It may be rejected later and kicked around some more in different directions. I imagine that happens in cartoons...
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Yakky Doodle in Hop, Duck and Listen
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, September 1967
After a month in the Army, Yogi Bear is back in Jellystone Park and stealing pic-a-nic baskets in the newspaper comics on this very date 50 years ago. It’s pretty much Yogi vs Ranger Smith all month;...
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Snagglepuss in Cagey Lion
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – La Verne Harding, Layout – Walt Clinton, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles...
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Press Handouts
Cartoon studios have publicity departments. Arnie Carr was in charge of the one at Hanna-Barbera starting in August 1959; that’s Arnie next to Fred Flintstone in a Life magazine photo. He badgered...
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Jetson’s Night Out
Everyone, I think, has cartoon memories. Here’s one of mine. On the Jetsons, there was an episode where a button was pressed and a whole apartment building rose out of a rainstorm into the clear sky. I...
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Portraying Wacky Old Ladies
Today would have, well, should have, been June Foray’s 100th birthday. Posts in celebration were banked for this blog and Tralfaz some months ago. It was not to be. June died last July. However, we’ll...
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