Good bye to a cartoon legend

[doppelganger]

Joe Barbera passed away today. :(

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=245376&GT1=7703

[Wabbit]

Another great one is gone. :cry:

Nobody makes great cartoons like the old Looney Tunes and H-B teams.

[TravelGal]

"Our stories were such a contrast to many of the animated series that are straight destruction and blasting away for a solid half-hour."

and

"Today, Charlie Chaplin couldn't get his material by a network," he once said.

This he wrote years ago. Bless him. He was one of the greats.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Different cartoon legend. I saw this in a store in Vegas a few years back and I've been kicking myself since for not buying it.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6024/sku1512bo8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

(It looks much better than that).

[Wabbit]

Different cartoon legend. I saw this in a store in Vegas a few years back and I've been kicking myself since for not buying it.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6024/sku1512bo8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

(It looks much better than that).

Ditto. Last I looked, that was going for over $500 now. I almost bought it for $150.

[Ankf00]

Adult Swim just had a moment of silence for him.

[devilmaster]

:(

1/2 of the team that gave me such joy as a child. Hell, even into my adulthood. I'll still sit down and watch old H-B toons.

And as for the Blanc 'Speechless' print, count me in as another who's kicking himself for not buying it.

Man, just off the top of my head - the ones I remember that I liked....

Jetsons
Scooby Doo
Grape Ape
Wacky Races
Speed Buggy
Tom and Jerry
Hong Kong Phooey
Laff-o-lympics
Captain Caveman
Huckleberry Hound

I know I'm just scratching the surface. Yep, the wiki list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_produced_by_Hanna-Barbera

I think you'd be hard pressed to find any kid born since the 60's that wasn't a fan of any of the H-B toons

[Cam]

Crap! :(

[emjaya]

:(

[TravelGal]

Great cartooning is such an amazing art. I'm sure Joe wouldn't mind the mild hijack when I say that Mel Blanc cartoon tribute reminded me of the one I saw when Steve Irwin died. It was labelled "Real crocodile tears" and it had all the Australian animals in huddled in tears. Gosh, it got to me. :cry:

[tllips]

Ditto. Last I looked, that was going for over $500 now. I almost bought it for $150.


Different cartoon legend. I saw this in a store in Vegas a few years back and I've been kicking myself since for not buying it.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6024/sku1512bo8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

(It looks much better than that).

My Wife bought this for me for our first anniversary back in '94. It has been hanging in a prominent place in our family room since. I think she paid $150, I had no idea it is going for $500 now. It is not a limited edition or numbered or anything.

[IlliniRacer]

:(

1/2 of the team that gave me such joy as a child. Hell, even into my adulthood. I'll still sit down and watch old H-B toons.

Amen.

My five year old loves Tom & Jerry. Many of our winter Sunday afternoons are spent watching Tom & Jerry DVDs.

[TKGAngel]

:(

1/2 of the team that gave me such joy as a child. Hell, even into my adulthood. I'll still sit down and watch old H-B toons.

And as for the Blanc 'Speechless' print, count me in as another who's kicking himself for not buying it.

Man, just off the top of my head - the ones I remember that I liked....

Jetsons
Scooby Doo
Grape Ape
Wacky Races
Speed Buggy
Tom and Jerry
Hong Kong Phooey
Laff-o-lympics
Captain Caveman
Huckleberry Hound

I know I'm just scratching the surface. Yep, the wiki list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_produced_by_Hanna-Barbera

I think you'd be hard pressed to find any kid born since the 60's that wasn't a fan of any of the H-B toons

Time Warner just added the Boomerang Channel to our lineup. Its pretty much all H-B toons, all the time (with some Banana Splits thrown in for good measure).

The best part about the H-B toons was how all of the action scenes featured the characters running past the same arrangement of house/tree/rock or couch/lamp/table.

[devilmaster]

A quick sidetrip to another forum called the big cartoon database www.bcdb.com, gave me this link with a few anecdotes from a former employee of H-B, Mark Evanier.

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_12_18.html

[devilmaster]

K, another tribute and anecdote:

http://kingofbreakfast.livejournal.com/46739.html

and the cartoon paul dini talks about is on youtube... http://youtube.com/watch?v=dkyNZGzfFhs

[Anteater]

I loved those H-B cartoons as a kid! :(

[theunions]

Don't forget Chris Hayward too...I opened up this thread expecting it to be about him...

[Winston Wolfe]

Time Warner just added the Boomerang Channel to our lineup. Its pretty much all H-B toons, all the time (with some Banana Splits thrown in for good measure).

The best part about the H-B toons was how all of the action scenes featured the characters running past the same arrangement of house/tree/rock or couch/lamp/table.

I am with ya Angel... my kids at 6 (twins B&G), and they LOVE watching all the good stuff we watched: Huckleberry Hound, Grape Ape, Flinstones, Jetsons, etc.....
I love the "running past the same ol' backgrounds" stuff, too.... its such a chuckle to see your kids watch the same things you did @