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Jabbing Jinks
Ed Love takes a crack at Mr. Jinks in one of the little cartoons between the cartoons on the Huckleberry Hound Show. I suspect this is from 1959. Here are a few expressions. The one with Jinks backed...
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Some Faces of Hanna-Barbera
It’s great to see the people responsible for those fun early Hanna-Barbera cartoons back in the studio’s heyday. These pictures, I believe, are from Jerry Eisenberg’s collection, and courtesy of Tony...
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Bowling For Hucks
Huck Hound was a lot better bowler in the cartoon Ten Pin Alley (1959) than in one of the little cartoons between the cartoons on his show. Here’s our hero (with a very small bow tie) telling us he’s...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, April 1968
Fans of the Yogi Sunday comics will be a little disappointed in the poor quality of three of our entries this month. Richard Holliss, who has generously shared his colour comics from his archive, only...
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We'll Save a Ringside Seat
Something was missing from the Huckleberry Hound Show and it was a real disappointment. It was Cornelius the rooster. Cornelius was the spokes-cockadoodler for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. He appeared in the...
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The Future of the Past
What does a successful producer do after a failure? Go back to what it was that was a success and put a twist on it. In 1960, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera took TV sitcom suburbia, put it in the Stone Age...
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Raindance Bear
Some of the little cartoons between the cartoons on the Yogi Bear Show where a little mild. Here’s a solo effort by Yogi Bear. He tells the viewing audience he’s going to do a rain dance. Why? Well,...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, April 1968
Dancing and motoring were the scenarios upon which were hung the stories for the Flintstones’ Sunday newspaper comics 50 years ago this month. There lots of neat little things in some of the comics....
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Gerard Baldwin
The animation of your favourite cartoon dog Yowp was entrusted to only four people at Hanna-Barbera. One was the last remaining animator who worked for the studio in the 1950s. Gerard Baldwin passed...
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Birthday Bash Bear
That fine animator Will Finn was lamenting the other day that Yogi Bear is less popular these days than some of the other classic Hanna-Barbera characters, since Yogi’s his favourite. How does he think...
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The Great Maltese
Mike Maltese is my favourite cartoon writer. It’d take forever to list all the incredibly funny cartoons he was responsible for at Warner Bros. I still laugh at them. It’s impossible not to. In...
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On the Road With Huck and Yogi
For years, radio and film stars went on personal appearance tours. Even local TV show kid show hosts would show up at a shopping centre and shake hands or pat youngsters on the noggin. It would seem...
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Spokes-lepuss
The animated commercials in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows for Kellogg’s could be as amusing as the cartoons themselves. My favourite is the one where Jinksie and the meeces do a Beatles spoof song...
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Pixie and Dixie — Tiny Trappers
This post is merely an excuse to display these great poses of Mr. Jinks on a sheet put together by Dick Bickenbach in 1960. But let’s give you a bonus as well. Here’s a four-pager from a May 1962 Dell...
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Producing the Huckleberry Hound Show
So what was the first cartoon made for the Huckleberry Hound Show? The correct answer is “Pie-Pirates,” the Yogi Bear cartoon that actually appeared on the third Huck show. We know this thanks to the...
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Jinks Short-Cuts
Time for a Mr Jinks quiz. Here are two frames from Jinks’ Mice Device (1958). Can you guess the animator? This is kind of a trick question, as two different animators are at work. This first drawing is...
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Season Two For Huckleberry Hound
Bigger is better. Bigger means more profits. That’s the free enterprise system. H-B Enterprises was a business. Therefore, it got bigger. The Huckleberry Hound Show started life in 1958 as a huge...
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Dinner With Yogi and Quick Draw (and Maybe T.C.)
Despite what some people and web sites would have you believe, cartoons weren’t just for Saturday mornings way-back-when. In fact, it took until the mid-1960s for animation to bump puppets and most...
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An Assortment of Yogi
Guys in Yogi Bear costumes were still putting on shows around the U.S.A. in 1973. You see to the right an ad from the Naples Daily News of June 17th that year. In addition to the bike, the management...
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Despises Them Mices
Pixie and Dixie get even with Mr. Jinks for continually destroying their sandcastles, in a little cartoon between the cartoons on the Huckleberry Hound Show. No “illustrated radio” here. There’s a...
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