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Flintstones Weekend Comics, July 1970
Dino gets a showcase in the comics this month 49 years ago. Three of the four comics are house-bound, the last moves to the golf course. We’ve mentioned before that Mr. Slate was not Fred’s boss in the...
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The Voice Man We All Loved
For a while, it seems like it was impossible to turn on a television set on any given day and not hear Daws Butler. Even in the pre-home video, pre-specialised cable channel days, Hanna-Barbera or...
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Buy Huck, Buy Often!
H-B Enterprises (Hanna-Barbera Productions by August 1959) didn’t waste any time pushing its brand-new characters in front of the public by means other than animated cartoons. We’ve documented toys,...
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Fewer Drawings, More Gimmicks
Adult humour today isn’t what it was 60 years ago. Today, “adult” humour brings to mind a lot of sexual references and crudity. In other words, the stuff 12 year old boys sniggered at 60 years ago...
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Scooter Looter Cycle
Scooter Looter is one of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons that’s chock-full of short cuts and the kind of cartoon that never would have been made the following season. It was produced in the first year...
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Explaining Cats
Hanna-Barbera made good copy in 1961. The proof is in a search through newspapers as Arnie Carr’s PR department successfully pushed the studio’s newest series, Top Cat. Editor after editor opened up a...
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Two Chats With Don Messick
What’s the connection between the Jetsons and Soupy Sales? Let Don Messick tell you. Messick was, of course, the voice of Astro on the series. The voice was borrowed a few years later for another dog...
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The House of the Seven Gargoyles
Dick Thomas pulled a huge workload at the Hanna-Barbera studio. He arrived in 1959 from Walt Disney (after almost two decades at Warner Bros.) to work on the Kellogg’s series, and was providing...
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Hoyt Curtin seemed quite comfortable with jazzy, brassy arrangements, so perhaps it’s appropriate one of his famous theme songs got a guitar jazz workout. Below is Meet the Flintstones performed by the...
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Hanna-Barbera Fans Write Back
Is it possible to fairly compare cartoons made by Hanna-Barbera and the Jay Ward studios? I don’t think so. The two studios had a different attitude and pace. The Hanna-Barbera cartoons were fairly...
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Yogi and Flintstones Comics
Some time ago, reader Richard Holliss graciously offered to send scans of the Yogi Bear and Flintstones weekend newspaper comics he had collected over the years. There are a number I don’t believe I’ve...
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Talking to Animals, Not Super Heroes
The concept of Saturday Morning Cartoons didn’t last comparatively long, and a case can be made that it was pushed into being by Hanna-Barbera. When network television started expanding its weekend...
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How Kids Teach Daws Butler
Daws Butler taught all kinds of newcomers the art of acting, but Daws got a few lessons himself—from his own children. So he admitted in an article that appeared in the San Antonio Express and News on...
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Helicopter Huck
Huckleberry Hound was probably never animated as gracefully than on the little cartoons between the cartoons on his show. It’s so nice to see Huck and the stars of his other shows move fluidly (in full...
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On the Road With Huckleberry
Take the idea of people dressed in huge cartoon character costumes (like at Disneyland) with personal appearances (like the Lone Ranger or a TV kid’s show host) and what do you get? Huckleberry Hound...
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Thank You For Reading
I love old cartoons and I love 1950s stock music. This blog was started ten years ago as a place to document the stock cues used on every cartoon on the first season of “The Huckleberry Hound Show,”...
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Art Lozzi
The sad news has been passed on to me by Jerry Beck, through an obit in the Los Angeles Times, that the last original artist at the Hanna-Barbera studio, Art Lozzi, has passed away in Greece. He was 90...
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A Holiday Yowp to You and Yours
Santa Season greetings from your retired blogger, Yowp. Enjoy this fine character compilation (artist unidentified) who came up with this wonderful drawing for the studio’s 25th anniversary in 1982....
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The Psychology of Huck and Quick Draw
Did Quick Draw McGraw give me a psychological release at age 5? At that age, I don’t know what I’d want to have been released from, but Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera thought so. At least, that’s what they...
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Julie Bennett
She was a favourite of Jack Webb in Dragnet. She turned up on I Love a Mystery and co-starred in Grand Central Station and Whispering Streets on radio. And in November 1955, The Hollywood Reporter...
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