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Huckleberry Hound — Hillbilly Huck
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey; Layout – Paul Sommer; Backgrounds – Vera Hanson; Written By Warren Foster; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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The Judy and Elroy Show
Class! Today’s lesson. This is “The Flintstones.” This is not “The Flintstones.” This, of course, is from “The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Show,” which was one of the nails of the proverbial coffin for me...
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Snooper and Blabber — De-Duck-Tives
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Carlo Vinci; Layout – Paul Sommer; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Story – Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, June 1963
You wouldn’t think there’d be a nice for the little uber-cute neighbour girl Amber to show up in the Flintstones comics once Pebbles came along, but that wasn’t the case. Amber appears again in one of...
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Yogi Bear — Love Bugged Bear
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bob Carr, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Vera Hanson, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Two Tales of Don Messick
When you think of TV producers, Don Messick’s name likely doesn’t come to mind. Sure, he must have played several over the course of his career at Hanna-Barbera, but he actually co-owned a production...
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Mike's Daughter
It’s been a pleasure and privilege to chat on-line with many people about cartoons, and it’s been a special joy to talk with those who worked in the animation industry or their families. Over the last...
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Augie Doggie — Little Wonder
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bob Carr; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Fernando Montealegre; Story – Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles –...
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Jerry Dexter
One of Hanna-Barbera’s best-recognised voices of the late ‘60s has passed away. I’ve received a note from Jerry Dexter’s son Jay that Jerry died June 21st. He was 78. Jerry apparently hit his head...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, July 1963
It must have been a hot July 50 years ago because two of the four Yogi Bear weekend comics that month use the heat as a starting point for the plot. I suppose I could look it up but I’m too lazy. Must...
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Quick Draw McGraw — Talky Hawky
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe BarberaCredits: Animation – Ed de Mattia; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Art Lozzi; Written By Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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From Storyboard to Garbage Can
Not every gag a writer comes with ends up in a finished cartoon. Some gags are weak so they never get on the storyboard. Others may not quite fit the flow of the story. And, at Hanna-Barbera in the...
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Pixie and Dixie — A Wise Quack
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bob Carr; Layout – Paul Sommer; Background – Vera Hanson; Story – Warren Foster; Story Direction – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, July 1963
There’s something bothersome about characters suddenly taking on a new trait just for the sake of a gag before it disappears again. It’s no different than people taking cartoon characters they...
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Mike Lah’s Yogi Bear
The Huckleberry Hound Show was set to beam out from TV sets starting September 29, 1958 and that meant artists at Hanna-Barbera had to get busy. On June 24th, columnist William Ewald reported that the...
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Huckleberry Hound — Huck and Ladder
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Written by Warren Foster; Story Direction – Alex Lovy; Titles –...
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Yowp Runs Wild
Those of you who have followed my career know that I, Yowp, co-starred in three Yogi cartoons, only to be banished to reruns starting in 1959 as new characters rose to fame at Hanna-Barbera. They...
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Snooper and Blabber — Ala-Kazoop!
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: none. Layout – Tony Rivera(?), Backgrounds – Fernando Montealegre, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Direction – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art Goble,...
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Ron Dias
Word has come in from Mike Peraza at Disney that former Hanna-Barbera background artist Ron Dias died today. He had been living in Marina, California. Ron was born in Honolulu in 1937 to Lino and Eve...
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Don Messick and the Wolf (Boy)
Don Messick entertained countless kids on screen for years so it’s pleasing to see he could entertain kids off-screen as well. Here’s a neat story from the Oxnard Press-Courier of January 7, 1993. It...
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