Clik here to view.
Flintstones Weekend Comics, February 1970
If it’s one thing they had in Bedrock, it’s leaky houses. Fred Flintstone deals with (or doesn’t deal with) a leak in two of the four comics that appeared in Sunday newspapers this month 49 years ago....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flintstones Vs Jonny Quest
Doug Wildey, who gets credit for creating Jonny Quest, once grumbled about the artists working on the series as being, to paraphrase him, “Flintstones animators.” That was true, but some of them had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Walking and Running by Carlo
Yogi Bear and Boo Boo dip their knees, tilt from side to side and then straighten up in a six-drawing walk cycle in the 1958 cartoon Big Bad Bully. The animator is (as you may have guessed) Carlo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Big Hound on Campus
One of the things you have likely discovered if you’re a long-time reader of this blog is that there was a time when Huckleberry Hound had a cult-like status. It didn’t last long (pop culture phenomena...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, March 1970
Frank, Sammy, Dean—at Jellystone Park? National parks must be raking in the coin if they can afford those acts. (Please don’t tell me I have to explain who the Rat Pack is). They showed up in name only...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Season Four For Huckleberry Hound
Before anything else, I’d like to thank Denise Kress for sending me a bunch of documents that were in the files of her late husband Earl. That’s where the production numbers and so on have come from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Paddling Faster
Poor Huckleberry Hound. Usurped by a second-rate group of cartoons. Our last post here dealt with the end of the Huckleberry Hound Show, as Hanna-Barbera and Screen Gems decided to test the syndication...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Two Handed Artist
Quick! Name the Hanna-Barbera artist who won $327,094 in the lottery! You can cheat. The answer is in the story to the right from the Signal of Santa Clarita, California published June 22, 1988. Alex...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flintstones Weekend Comics, March 1970
Don’t you like it when current pop culture references are mixed in with old ones as if they belong together? Fred Flintstone has a hippie friend (in the Stone Age world of 1970). But the hippie talks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Few Things About Judo Jack
As a cartoon dog, I don’t claim to know very much about judo. But I do know it doesn’t involve grabbing someone by the tail and doing an airplane spin before letting them fly. However, that’s what we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Greater Than Elvis
Isn’t this a great tribute drawing to Hanna-Barbera’s greatest voice actor, Daws Butler? I’ll bet this was drawn by H-B writer and sketch artist Tony Benedict. It has many of the same poses of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bear Knuckles Fight
Back in the 1960s, there was one toy that, for me, was a little uncomfortable. Parents bought their kids inflatable punching bags with whatever character the manufacturer was able to license. To the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, April 1970
You know the story. Yogi Bear was on his honeymoon with Grace Stafford when a woodpecker started making a noise on his cabin roof and.... Oh, wait. I’m thinking of Walter Lantz. Well, maybe I’m not....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Patterson Flintstone
How many times did this leap run cycle get used on The Flintstones? There are four drawings in this cycle, but what’s different is the first two below are shot once, while the other two are shot twice....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Satirical Canape
A satirical canapé? Someone in Arnie Carr’s PR department at Hanna-Barbera came up with that one and tossed it into news releases about the studio’s newest cartoon series, The Flintstones. I’ve found...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Somersault Huck
Perhaps the best-looking Huckleberry Hound cartoons are the little cartoons-between-the-cartoons made for the series’ first season in 1958. Huck and the rest of his friends are fully animated, with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flintstones Weekend Comics, April 1970
The writers at Hanna-Barbera tossed all kinds of cartoon characters into the mix with fairy tales, so why not the Flintstones? Thus Gramps sees the Three Little Pigs in the April newspaper comics 49...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Giddyup Chair
Not all the cartoons-between-the-cartoons on the Huckleberry Hound Show involved a circus. Here’s one set on a patio, with the background art by Fernando Montealegre. Lounging Pixie and Dixie are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Play With Yowp
Want to make money from cartoon characters? You don’t do it with cartoons. You do it with merchandising. Walt Disney knew it. Walter Lantz knew it. Even Charlie Mintz knew it. And so did Bill Hanna and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ski Master Huck
“Watch ski master Huck try his luck,” Huckleberry Hound tells us at home watching a little-cartoon-before-the-cartoon. Note the pursed lips and the half-moon eyes. Huck sees something. Now comes a head...
View Article