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Moon Mice
Where there’s cheese, there are mice. Where there is green cheese, there are mice (not necessarily green ones). And where is there green cheese? On the moon. So it is that Mr. Jinks unexpectedly ends...
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Yakky Doodle in Beach Brawl
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Don Patterson, Layout – Jack Huber, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles –...
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Giving Credit
I sure miss Earl Kress. Earl, if you don’t know, was a writer for Hanna-Barbera and other cartoon studios. He loved old cartoons and was a great student of them. He probably knew more about the early...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, December 1967
Chickens. Puppies. Zebras. Mice. Grumbling Bears. Yes, they’re all in the Yogi Bear newspaper comics 50 years ago this month, along with Santa Yogi. Okay, maybe not chickens. It’s a peacock, Sorry this...
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Snagglepuss in Fight Fright
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Bob Carr, Layout – Jack Huber, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Lew Marshall, Titles – Art...
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Ruff and Reddy Turn 60
60 years ago today, the first handiwork of the Hanna-Barbera studio beamed into homes via television. It was the debut of Ruff and Reddy. And the series almost didn’t get made. Hanna-Barbera...
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Bob Givens
There weren’t many people who worked on Walt Disney’s Snow White, the first real Bugs Bunny cartoon and the original Quick Draw McGraw series. There was just one. Bob Givens. Bob passed away today. He...
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Night Flight Fright
Ruff and Reddy was different from the Hanna-Barbera cartoons that came after it. Like Crusader Rabbit before them, Ruff and Reddy went on adventures that ended with a cliff-hanger. There were two R...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, December 1967
Pretty early in the Flintstones newspaper comic run, both in the daily and weekend strips, the story would involve some kind of invention and end with the question “What will they think of next?” There...
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Double Sarsparilla
Quick McGraw McGraw turns western bartender in this little cartoon between the cartoons on his show. Augie Doggie places his order—a double sarsaparilla sundae. Is sarsaparilla an old-timey thing? I’ve...
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Music For Alley and Cat
Christmas was Fred Flintstone’s favourite time of year, sang Alan Reed on a cartoon show quite some years ago, and it may be yours, too. So allow me to thank you for visiting this blog and, again, give...
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The Expanding World of Hanna-Barbera: 1960
The debut of The Flintstones may have been the highlight for Hanna-Barbera in 1960 but other things were going on at the studio as well. For one thing, they left the Kling Studios on La Brea you see to...
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Bearly a Wizard
Yogi Bear mixes “a magic potion that will turn me into a handsome prince of a fellow.” He says the magic words “Alaka-zee, alaka-zam.” Note the trance-like pupils. As you might expect, it doesn’t work....
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Yogi Bear Comics, January 1968
Ah, the nippy chill of winter is in the air! Normally, that means hibernation for the ursine denizens of the forest. But not Yogi Bear. Three of the four comics published in weekend newspapers 50 years...
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Yakky Doodle in Mad Mix Up
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Bob Carr, Layout – Jack Huber, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles – Art...
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Wanna Buy a Huck?
There was, and I suppose still is, more to cartoons on TV than just watching them. Many kids wanted to carry on with their enjoyment of their favourite characters after the set was turned off. And...
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Snagglepuss in Charge That Lion
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Art Davis, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Vera Hanson, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, January 1968
The forecast for Bedrock—rain or snow. At least, that’s the variety we get in the Flintstones weekend comics 50 years ago this month. Richard Holliss supplied the colour versions; apparently there were...
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Judo Jinks
In the early days at Hanna-Barbera, one animator would be responsible for an entire cartoon, but there were exceptions. For whatever reason, Mike Lah would be brought in to handle a couple of minutes...
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The Non-TV World of Hanna-Barbera
Which 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon starred Jim Backus? Give up? The answer is Mr. Leaf. You don’t recall Mr. Leaf? That wouldn’t be surprising. That’s because it never appeared on TV (to the best of my...
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