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Snooper and Blabber — Outer Space Case
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Brad Case; Layout – Don Sheppard; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Written by Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, December 1963
“Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear” was not the original title of Hanna-Barbera’s first foray into feature cartoon production. Associated Press reporter Bob Thomas revealed in a column in June 1963 the film...
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The Many Fingers of Snuffles
Who doesn’t love Snuffles? Right! We all do. So let’s look at some drawings courtesy of the internet. Here’s what I presume (due to a lack of dialogue underneath) is a layout drawing from “Bow-Wow...
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Yogi Bear — A Bear Living
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Art Davis, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, December 1963
Sometimes Fred Flintstone’s schemes work. Sometimes they don’t. We get examples of both in the Sunday comics (Saturday in Canada) 50 years ago this month. And, no, there’s no Christmas story this time,...
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It's Ruff and Reddy's Birthday
“Ruff and Reddy” isn’t among my favourite cartoon series, but it did start the Hanna-Barbera empire and it debuted on tomorrow’s date in 1957, so we’ll mark the anniversary with a short post. If you...
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Augie Doggie — Playmate Pup
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Dick Lundy; Layout – Paul Sommer; Backgrounds – Art Lozzi; Written by Mike Maltese; Story Direction – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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Play With Huck
There seems to have been no end of merchandise for kids featuring the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, and it wasn’t just put on store shelves for Christmas. To the right, you see a newspaper ad from August...
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Some Words From Top Cat
It’s been four years since the voice of Top Cat, Arnold Stang, passed away. There’s something about the show “Top Cat” that doesn’t do it for me, although I love Arnold Stang and I love Marvin Kaplan...
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Quick Draw McGraw — Shooting Room Only
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.No credits. Story – Mike Maltese, Story Direction – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art Goble, Production Supervision – Howard Hanson.Voice Cast: Quick Draw,...
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Merry Christmas From Huck, Yogi and Yowp
You know how it is when you turn on the TV over the Christmas holidays. You want to see your favourite old cartoons. “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.” “Bucky and Pepito...
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Today's Huckleberry Hound Show Quiz
Can anyone identify the Hanna-Barbera cartoons that are depicted in the composite drawing below? This was posted on Facebook by possibly our only reader in Peru, Jeanpierre Enrique Robles Ramon. The...
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Pixie and Dixie — Jinxed Jinks
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Art Davis; Layout – Paul Sommer; Background – Bob Gentle; Written by Warren Foster; Story Direction – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, January 1964
The biggest problem Yogi Bear had in the newspaper comic pages to ring in 1964 may not have been kids, though they seem to have dominated the Sunday pages. It may have been in the editorial room at...
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Walking With Wolves
How do you make a cartoon character turn 180 degrees? If you’re Carlo Vinci, you come up with some unique drawings. Carlo has a neat little walk cycle for “Chiefy,” the mastermind wolf in the...
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Huckleberry Hound — Cluck and Dagger
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Art Davis, Layout – Paul Sommer, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Tony Benedict on Stu's Show
You know how the theme song goes: “The show in town is Huckle Jerry Hound...” Okay, maybe not. But to the right you see Huckle Jerry Hound. Or, rather Hanna-Barbera layout artist Jerry Eisenberg drawn...
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Drawing and Drawing and Drawing
Mike Lah once said that if you were trained in Disney-style full animation, adjusting to Hanna-Barbera’s limited animation was fairly easy. But it was still a grind nonetheless. Ask Alex Lovy and Dan...
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Snooper and Blabber — Surprised Party
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Lew Marshall, Layout – Paul Sommer, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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O Maior Palhaço da Cidade
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera must have known of the big coin that was brought in from international sales of their Tom and Jerry cartoons when they worked at MGM (and how the cut-off of overseas markets...
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