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Don Jurwich
It’s sad to receive word about Hanna-Barbera veterans passing away, and we’ve heard from reader John Semper, Jr. that layout artist Don Jurwich died on July 13th in Westlake Village at age 87. Jurwich...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, January 1965
You don’t think of dramatic artwork when you think of the Flintstones comic strips. But occasionally it shines through, such as in the colour comic that appeared in newspapers on January 3, 1965 (a day...
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Why Reinvent?
Below is Yogi Bear. Below is Mr. Jinks. Below is Huckleberry Hound. At least that’s who they are on this blog, and for those of you who watched the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons starting in 1958. Granted,...
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A Few Frames of Huck and the Gang
One of the fun parts about the Hanna-Barbera shows for Kellogg’s was the little cartoons in between the cartoons. Various characters got to interact and promote the next cartoon. It was special back in...
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Before Chopper
Voices! We need voices! That was the cry at the newly-founded H-B Enterprises in 1957. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera went out and found two men who could create just about any voice that was needed in...
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Promoting Top Cat With Arnold Stang
Top Cat had a top cast. Marvin Kaplan (Meet Millie) and John Stephenson (The People’s Choice, Bold Venture) had both worked on television series. Leo DeLyon appeared in nightclubs. And since Top Cat...
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Let's Party With T.C.
What were Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera doing the night Top Cat debuted 60 years ago? Watching TV, what else? And so were members of the Hanna-Barbera staff and sundry actors, as detailed in this story in...
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The Huck Birthday Express
Children loved it. Teenagers went nuts for it. Adults watched it. Even critics thought it was entertaining. And it began appearing on TV screens 63 years ago today. The Huckleberry Hound Show was...
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On Location With Mike Maltese and Warren Foster
One afternoon in the 1960s, little me was talking to my mother, and I decided to inject some Quick Draw McGraw vocabulary into the conversation. My mother scowled. “It’s ‘sheep,’ not ‘sheeps’,” she...
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Unmatched Pilgrim
Grim Pilgrim is, in a way, a Thanksgiving cartoon, as Huckleberry Hound makes peace with an American Indian stereotype—and the turkey they both want to eat—as they all sit down to dinner at the end....
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Jean Vander Pyl
Jean Vander Pyl has a connection to Christmas. She (her voice, to be specific) was one of the stars of the seasonal film “Santa and the Three Bears,” released independently to theatres in 1970. It was...
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Flintstones Daily Strips, October 1961
Over the years, the Yowp blog has posted the Sunday (Saturday in Canada) colour comics starring Yogi Bear and The Flintstones syndicated by McNaught. There were also daily cartoons in the papers as...
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Flintstone Daily Strips, October 1961, Part 2
Some standard situations make their appearance in the Flintstones daily comic strip in the final half of October 1961, which was the first month of publication. Do people still complain about women...
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Leo De Lyon
An anonymous note has been left on the blog asking why the death of Top Cat actor Leo De Lyon hasn’t been mentioned here. It’s pretty simple. I have to know about it. I did not know Mr. De Lyon, nor am...
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Flintstones Daily Strips, November 1961 Part 1
We’re back with another month of daily newspaper comics starring Fred Flintstone. Pebbles hadn’t been invented yet, so the strips revolve around Fred and Barney or Fred and Wilma. I’m afraid there’s no...
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Flintstones Daily Comics November 1961 Part 2
Fred Flintstone gets to be a hypocrite AND a letch in the daily comics during the second half of 1961. It’s all pretty innocuous stuff, of course. And while some of the gags in the strips may seem...
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Glowing Huck
There’s an interesting effect Hanna-Barbera used in the Yogi Bear cartoon “Space Bear” (1959) that was also seen at the end of “Spud Dud” (1960), the first Huckleberry Hound cartoon of the third...
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The Swingin' Alligator
These days, the internet seems full of people who are prepared to tell you who animated what in old cartoons. There are wonderfully helpful people like Mark Kausler and Mike Kazaleh, who knew and...
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Is There a Plumber in the House?
Fans of early Hanna-Barbera cartoons are the best. Each of us has our favourite series and characters. The late cartoon writer Earl Kress and I found an instant kinship when I told him my favourite H-B...
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Top Cat's Debut and What Arnold Stang Hated
Top Cat debuted on the ABC-TV network on Wednesday, September 27, 1961 with the episode “The $1,000,000 Derby.” Like all the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, T.C. was shot in colour but broadcast in black and...
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