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Season Three For Huckleberry Hound
The Huckleberry Hound Show was in a bit of turmoil in the 1960-61 season, despite coming off a Emmy win earlier in the year. And you can blame Mr. Magoo. Kellogg’s was looking for another half-hour...
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Not-Quite-Duckpin Duck
Daws Butler and Don Messick provided almost all of the voices for Hanna-Barbera cartoons during the first two years of the studio’s life. One notable exception was someone who provided a speciality...
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Hard Landing Huck
Hanna-Barbera cartoons in the early going displayed some of the design principles you’d find in animated TV commercials and theatrical shorts of the mid-to-late 1950s. Not as stylised as, say, an MGM...
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Some Hanna-Barbera Publicity Art
The artists at Hanna-Barbera drew more than cartoons and comic strips. There was publicity art as well. To the left, you can look at a really attractive drawing that was the cover of the TV sections of...
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Jumping With Jinks
The Huckleberry Hound Show was more than a few amusing cartoons. It was a full half-hour programme with all kind of things going on in between the cartoons, things that disappeared when the cartoons...
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Wilma and Brickrock
Today we can enjoy DVDs or on-line streams of our favourite old cartoons (or bootlegs in some cases). A generation ago, baby boomers ooh-ed and aww-ed about the latest home entertainment technology of...
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Meet the You-Know-Whos
“An inked disaster” is how the venerable New York Times referred to the debut of The Flintstones in 1960 (read the review HERE). Some critics weren’t all that impressed when the series first aired,...
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Spoofing Westerns and Private Eyes
Mike Maltese seems to have had an affinity for Western characters. At Warner Bros., he invented Yosemite Sam. Then about 15 years later, he came up with Quick Draw McGraw for Hanna-Barbera. Quick Draw...
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The Hanna-Barbera Tricks
Hanna-Barbera was given X amount of time and X amount of money to make TV cartoons. “X” in TV cartoons didn’t equal “X” in theatrical cartoons. There was less time and less money. Chuck Jones could...
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Tally Ho, Carlo
One disadvantage we kids had watching the Huckleberry Hound Show in the late 1950s and early 1960s is the cartoons were in black and white. Most TV programming was not in colour at the time, so Screen...
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The Biggest Show in Town?
Were the theme song singers right? Was the biggest show in town Huckleberry Hound for all you guys and gals? The answer is “it depends.” When the Huck show debuted in 1958, a company called the...
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Don Messick Holds Off the Competition
Here’s a Boo Boo take from Scooter Looter (first aired in 1959). Bill Hanna holds the second drawing for four frames. We’ve skipped a few frames. The animator is Carlo Vinci. Boo Boo, as you likely...
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Your Huckleberry Home
Were any cartoon characters merchandised more around 1960 than the creations of Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera and their veteran staff? There seems to have been an incredible variety of things on which Huck,...
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The Laugh Days of Hanna-Barbera
To your right, you see a drawing of Fred Flintstone and a model sheet of Wilma Flinstone. Oh, and there's a young man, too. The young man is Tony Benedict. When he arrived at Hanna-Barbera, the studio...
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Huck the Cartoonist
The artists in the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons all had loads of animation experience and were quite capable of giving their characters interesting and good expressions. Here’s a neat one of Huck,...
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Stories From Hanna Barbera Veterans — Live!
No, a character from The Flintstones didn’t one day suddenly cross over into the world of Pixie and Dixie (though it would make more sense than some of the ridiculous “Hanna-Barbera” cross-overs of...
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The Psychology of Snooper and Blabber
“Yowp, you’ve got to do more than just upload an animation cycle in this post about Snooper and Blabber,” I said to myself. But there isn’t an awful lot to say that hasn’t been said before on this...
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The Jolly Pie Pirate (and the Dog)
Mike Lah was Yogi Bear’s first animator, and his style at Hanna-Barbera was deceptively simple. His Yogi doesn’t look quite like the Yogi you think of; it seems a little sketchier. But Lah was able to...
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Words of Willie Ito
Willie Ito is one of a handful of people still around who not only worked on the original Bugs Bunny cartoons at Warner Bros., but on the original Flintstones series. Willie’s career began and ended...
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Hokey Wolf — Tricks and Treats
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Don Patterson; Layout – Paul Sommer; Backgrounds – Fernando Montealegre; Written by Warren Foster; Story Director – Alex Lovy;...
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