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Inks and Jinks
There’s never enough praise for the ink and paint department at the major animation studios. While the animators, their assistants and in-betweeners draw great action on paper, someone must have a lot...
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Jinks Sees a Ghost
Some of my favourite drawings of Mr. Jinks came from the pencil of Mike Lah, who spelled off the regular animator in a number of cartoons in the early episodes of The Huckleberry Hound Show. You want...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, July/August 1970
For a number of years, we posted 50th anniversary Yogi Bear and Flintstones weekend comics, and several readers have wondered why we stopped. It’s pretty simple. We ran out of comics. Several...
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Walk With Jinks
There was a time when Hanna-Barbera cartoons didn’t have walk cycles consisting of six drawings of a character in profile. There was a time in the early days when animators could bat out something...
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Fred Flintstone, Age 111
Alan Reed landed a TV role in fall 1960. It went nowhere. He was picked to play an agent in the sitcom Peter Loves Mary which, by the way, included a maid played by Bea Benaderet. Fortunately for Reed,...
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Billiard Bear
Yogi Bear shows off his pool prowess by trying to pull off a trick shot, banking a shot off the back cushion of the table and into a hole (which he points to). Instead, it flies into his open mouth....
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, August 1970
Well, it’s official. The world is flat. At least it was in the Flintstones era in the Sunday comics. Regular readers will know we have been reprinting “50-years-ago-this-month” weekend newspaper comics...
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Modern Stone Age Designs
Isn’t it enjoyable to stumble across production artwork from cartoon shows? There seems to be a fair bit of it from early Hanna-Barbera cartoons. A good thing, too, considering a lot of the archives...
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Layout Lance and Hanna-Barbera Perfection
You may be wondering what the drawing to the left has to do with Hanna-Barbera cartoons. It was published in 1930 in the New York Herald Tribune. At that time, while Bill Hanna was sweeping up the...
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Hanna-Barbera's Music Man
At the age of eight in 1931, he gave a piano recital with fellow students of the Ingalls-Bishop studios in San Bernadino. By the time he was in high school in 1939, he was fronting his own band (with a...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, September 1970
Bill Hanna was a huge supporter of the Boy Scouts (of America) his entire life, so you have to wonder whether it’s a coincidence—or CONSPIRACY!!!!—that Cub Scouts appeared periodically in the Yogi Bear...
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Pint Size Surprise for the Guys
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera may have been kicked out of MGM, but they didn’t let ideas from the studio’s cartoon division go to waste. When they set up their own studio, they borrowed from their own...
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Hanna-Barbera's Wonderful World of Colours
The original Hanna-Barbera occasionally had colour problems—even though the shows were broadcast in black and white. The problem involved the reason you’ve heard for the old H-B characters having...
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Impressions of Daws
You can’t give one solitary person credit for the huge success of the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but you have to wonder if they would have been as successful without actor Daws Butler. Huckleberry...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, October 1970
Fred Flintstone, mighty hunter and golfer. Those are two of the subjects of the Flintstones’ weekend comics this month in 1970. Pops makes appearances in the first two comics. No Betty. No Dino. The...
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The Biggest Show in Town is 60
60 years ago today, at 6 p.m., viewers of WATE-TV in Knoxville and WCHS in Charleston, West Virginia, could tune up their TV set and watch a brand-new show. People with their Zeniths or Admirals...
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Yabba-Dabba Birthday
If nothing else, The Flintstones sure got hyped before the show debuted on this date 58 years ago. A look at a number of newspapers in 1960 shows not only a line or two in the “TV Hilites” columns but...
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Meece-iversary
This day 60 years ago was a Wednesday, and that’s when Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks were first seen on television—in Chicago, that is. Oh, and Fresno. They all appeared the night before on TV sets in Los...
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Bear-iversary
Huckleberry Hound may have been the star of The Huckleberry Hound Show but it didn’t take too long before he was no longer the star at the Hanna-Barbera studio. In the early ‘60s when Bill Hanna and...
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A Chuckle For Huckle
How fortunate were some Canadian fans of Huckleberry Hound! Not only could they watch the Huckleberry Hound Show on a local station, if they lived close enough to the U.S. border, they could see it on...
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