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Jean Vander Pyl Looks Back
For the first two years of its life, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio relied almost entirely on Daws Butler and Don Messick to provide voices for all its characters. The exceptions were rare. By 1959...
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Flintstones Comics, December 1970
It’s remarkable! Infants in the Stone Age know future U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew! And they know there are such things as Spiro Agnew watches (my fuzzy memory seems to recall there was such a thing...
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Santa and the Stone Age
If you’re going to buy the fact that people in the Stone Age celebrate Christmas, you might as well jump in and buy the fact that the Sphinx, the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa date from...
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How Hoyt Curtin Made Music
Hoyt Curtin may have made as big an impact on Hanna-Barbera cartoons in the early 1960s as anyone else at the studio. Curtin began writing libraries of underscore music for various series in 1960 but...
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Boss Cat
Is it true that Top Cat was really known as Boss Cat when it first aired in England? The answer: yes. At the time the cartoon series was made, there was a brand of kitty food in the U.K. known as “Top...
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Don Lusk
The last surviving animator on The Jetsons’ debut cartoon in 1962 has passed away. Don Lusk was 105. We know he worked on the “Rosey the Robot” episode because his name is preserved in the cartoon’s...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, January 1970
Dennis the Menace a Hanna-Barbera character? Well, young Allen does have some distinct similarities in the Yogi Bear newspaper comics from January 1970. Boo Boo has the month off, but we see Mrs....
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Facts and Figures About Hanna-Barbera, 1966
One of the people responsible for many of the posts on this blog never lifted a pencil or a paint brush at Hanna-Barbera. He was Arnie Carr, the man responsible for getting the studio free publicity in...
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Snagglepuss by George Nicholas
El Kabong is funny. The orange, bad-guy Snagglepuss is funny. Put them together and you have a funny cartoon. And the cartoon is even funnier if the animator is George Nicholas. They all appear...
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Huck the Canuck
Huckleberry Hound, Pixie and Dixie and Yogi Bear didn’t come to Canada until 1959, but their new series got some praise in the Canadian media the year before. The Vancouver Sun lauded the cartoon...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, January 1970
A variety of stories fill the Flintstones’ Sunday comics on this month in 1970 (we can’t do 50 years ago this month as the comics aren’t available in readable form). Betty returns for one comic, Pops...
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Rhymes of Bear Are Everywhere
Charlie Shows wrote the dialogue for the first season Yogi Bear was on the air (1958-59) and drove me nuts. He’d come up with rhyming couplets at the ends of Yogi’s sentences, things like “Looks like...
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Home Sweet Bear-Type Cave
Yogi Bear’s homes were many and varied during his early days on The Huckleberry Hound Show. The studio saw no need to insist on using the same background drawings in each cartoon, so a new cave was...
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Joys and Vexations of the Future
Remember the days when everyone looked forward to the future? Today it seems everyone is negative about what lies ahead for the world. There was a time where people were hopeful that the wonders of...
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Snuffles
Quick Draw McGraw cartoons are fun for a bunch of reasons, including the concept that a dog gets so ecstatic over dog biscuits, he sproings into the air and floats down in satisfaction. Snuffles...
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Better Than Gobel
TV critics in Florida didn’t waste any time lavishing good opinions upon the brand-new Huckleberry Hound Show. It first appeared on TV on September 29, 1958, though in a number of cities, October 2nd...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, February 1970
Chuckling Mrs. Ranger Smith? Chuckling Boo Boo? We find them in the Yogi Bear Sunday comics from this month in 1970 (1969 is not available for reprinting). Mrs. Smith has a new hairstyle in the...
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The Life of Daws
It sure is nice—right powerful nice, as Huckleberry Hound might say—to see that Daws Butler got a little bit of recognition in the days when Hanna-Barbera and Kellogg’s teamed up to put some enjoyable...
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Running Ranger
Here’s Carlo Vinci at work in the 1960 Yogi Bear cartoon Gleesome Threesome. Ranger Smith spots Yogi jumping off a diving board and heading straight toward him. Low crotch, high step as the ranger...
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The Prowler
The Prowler was the third Flintstones cartoon put into production. Can you guess who the animator was on it? Fred’s mouth in the frame above is kind of like Carlo Vinci’s work, but not as angular....
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