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Suing Jonny Quest
You wouldn’t think anyone would mistake TV’s first action-adventure cartoon with a show that had human mouths superimposed over inanimate drawings. But someone did. “Jonny Quest” had problems from the...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, January 1964
Time to study Fred’s expressions in the final panels of “The Flintstones” Sunday newspaper comics 50 years ago this month. The final two comics have a wavy-mouthed Fred, and the first one has a...
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Yogi Bear — Disguise and Gals
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Don Patterson; Layout – Walt Clinton; Backgrounds – Bob Gentle; Written by Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles –...
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It's Not the Sierra Madre
Hanna-Barbera had stopped making Quick Draw McGraw cartoons by 1962, but there was one new Quick Draw release that year—on record. That’s when The Treasure of Sarah’s Mattress was put out by Colpix,...
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Augie Doggie — The Musket-Tears
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Lew Marshall; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Story – Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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Walt Clinton's Calvin
That funny cartoonist and H-B lover Mark Christiansen has pointed out a just-concluded auction on eBay for several comic strips drawn by Hanna-Barbera layout artist Walt Clinton. No one seems to know...
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Hux Pix Yux
Praise for “The Huckleberry Hound Show” came from many places right after it debuted in 1958 and one of them was the show-biz bible, Variety. It published two reviews of Huck’s debut show, one from Los...
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Lefty Callahan
Jack Nicholson had to buy his first car from someone. And that someone was Lefty Callahan. The two worked at the MGM cartoon studio together. Nicholson was an office boy who was told by his boss Bill...
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Quick Draw McGraw — Extra-Special Extra
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: None. Animation – Hicks Lokey, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art Goble, Production Supervision – Howard...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, February 1964
Ranger Smith’s kid appears as much as Ranger Smith—twice—in the weekend Yogi Bear comics 50 years ago this month. He never existed in the animated world—certainly not in the original series, anyway—and...
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The Story of the Mark of El Kabong
It’s story time again, and today’s story is “The Mark of El Kabong.” A couple of auction web sites have story panels for what turned out to be the last Quick Draw McGraw cartoon put into production...
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Pixie and Dixie — Jinks’ Jinx
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Emil Carle; Layout – Jack Huber; Backgrounds – Art Lozzi; Written by Warren Foster; Story Direction – Paul Sommer; Titles –...
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Say, That's Clinker-bell
Dave Detiege is best-known to animation fans as a writer at DePatie-Freleng and, before that, one of the latter-day storymen at Warner Bros. responsible for less-than-memorable cartoons such as “Mother...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, February 1964
Gene Hazelton’s Flintstones writers must have been briefly preoccupied with garbage. Two consecutive weekend comics deal with it 50 years ago this month. Trying to locate newspapers on-line that...
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Huckleberry Hound — Two For Tee Vee
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Don Towsley; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Art Lozzi; Written By Warren Foster; Story Director – John Freeman; Titles –...
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Fun With Huck
All the characters on the Huckleberry Hound show, even minor ones like everyone’s favourite dog Yowp, got a marketing push soon after the programme hit the air in 1958. Affable Huck was the...
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Snooper and Blabber — Snap Happy Saps
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Ken Muse, Layout – Walt Clinton, Backgrounds – Joe Montell, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Sketches – Dan Gordon, Titles – Art...
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Carlo Plays Hookey
108 years ago today, one of my favourite early Hanna-Barbera animators was brought into the world. He toiled at the most B-list of cartoon studios in New York before a former co-worker rescued him. His...
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Yogi Bear—Touch and Go-Go-Go
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bob Carr; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Neenah Maxwell; Written by Warren Foster; Story Director – Paul Sommer; Titles –...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, March 1964
A kindly helpmate to little animals. That’s Yogi Bear. Well, 50 years ago this month, anyway. Yes, the writers of the Yogi Sunday comics locked up Ranger Smith’s wife and kid and, instead, gave us...
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