tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post2756153754842975106..comments2024-03-27T01:21:03.543-07:00Comments on Yowp: Yogi Bear, Sunday, September 1961Yowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-81423678344176788982013-01-17T08:35:38.149-08:002013-01-17T08:35:38.149-08:00Just found your page. I was one of the little kid...Just found your page. I was one of the little kids who drew a card for Yogi, and as a "winner" earned the privilege of eating ice cream and bday cake down at KTLA with a bunch of other young artists. Sheriff John officiated and the program would show cartoons, and cut in between the cartoons, panning the gala down at the studio. I think I had ice cream on my face during the shoot.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-30297267325578326682011-09-04T07:41:14.964-07:002011-09-04T07:41:14.964-07:00I completely agree with David on Eisenberg and Alv...I completely agree with David on Eisenberg and Alvarado. They were probably the two best H-B comic book artists (though Alvarado wasn’t nearly as good with the characters of other studios) BECAUSE they best reflected the (different) H-B looks – MGM and very early H-B Enterprises for Eisenberg, and the “Yogi Bear Show” era for Alvarado!Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-49108531990535581232011-09-03T19:47:30.290-07:002011-09-03T19:47:30.290-07:00It looks to me as if the Sept. 10 strip might be P...It looks to me as if the Sept. 10 strip might be Pete Alvarado, and the rest were Eisenberg’s! <br /><br />He STILL rules, though!Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-14254967366393373072011-09-03T19:09:44.952-07:002011-09-03T19:09:44.952-07:00Yowp, excuse me if I'm telling you anything yo...Yowp, excuse me if I'm telling you anything you already know, but—there were quite a lot of funny animal artists during this period who worked for one animation studio as their day job, and simultaneously moonlighted drawing other studios' characters for comic books.<br />One example is Gil Turner, who animated for Lantz while drawing both Disney and MGM comics for Western Publishing.<br />While I haven't researched the topic, Singer and/or Ito could at least theoretically have worked on some H-B comics before becoming fulltime H-B staffers.<br /><br />In a day or two, I'll scan a few sample comic book pages by Eisenberg—both Tom and Jerrys that he inked and lettered, and then H-Bs that he at least penciled. You'll see that his versions of the H-B characters have much more of a "late MGM" vibe to them.<br />By contrast, Alvarado had a mid-1960s H-B flavor even before mid-1960s H-B. I don't know enough about H-B to say whether he helped make it that way there, or whether it was just (his) luck.ramapithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751343744514656549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-41456167544645537992011-09-03T17:23:37.159-07:002011-09-03T17:23:37.159-07:00Not much to add, other than the Sept. 10 strip is ...Not much to add, other than the Sept. 10 strip is in no way Eisenberg's.Thadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04443425643665474645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-68544911501782529982011-09-03T16:44:38.901-07:002011-09-03T16:44:38.901-07:00Dave, Mark will correct me (and I hope he would), ...Dave, Mark will correct me (and I hope he would), but my impression is he was speaking over the course of the strip, which went quite a number of years. In 1961, Singer wasn't at H-B and Willie Ito would have been in the process of leaving Clampett's studio. I don't know when Alvarado or any of the others arrived. I gather Bick worked on these as well at one point.<br />I'm sure willing to have someone drop a note who can definitively state who drew these. The impression I'm left with is, at least when the strips started out in 1961, Gene Hazelton and Harvey Eisenberg were the ones involved with Gene coming up with stories (and, I suppose, layouts) and handing them off to Harvey. But I'm sure some people reading here are more enlightened on the subject than I am, and I'd love to hear from them.<br />I've never really sat down to compare them with the comic books that Harvey is known to have drawn.<br />It seems the first Flintstones Sunday comic was October 8; at least, that's the first one I've found in my newspaper searches.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-17273710675274779902011-09-02T18:57:02.464-07:002011-09-02T18:57:02.464-07:00Er—Joe, Yowp...
While the creative team on these ...Er—Joe, Yowp...<br /><br />While the creative team on these particular strips is certainly talented, I genuinely don't think Harvey Eisenberg was wholly responsible for any of them. Reflect back on Mark Evanier's posting from 2009, where he discussed non-Hazelton art on the strip: "Just about everyone good who worked at Hanna-Barbera at the time worked from time to time on them, including Pete Alvarado, Willie Ito, Bob Singer and Harvey Eisenberg... Also, for much of their runs, both strips were lettered and inked by Lee Hooper."<br /><br />I'd make an educated guess that the strips you're showing here are all lettered and inked by Hooper, and the Sept 3, 10, and 17 strips suggest Alvarado pencil work to me—especially the younger humans, whom Eisenberg might have been more likely to draw like Jeannie from Tom and Jerry.<br /><br />I'm willing to buy Sept 24 as having been penciled at least partly by Eisenberg; there's a grace and motion here that Alvarado lacked. (That said, certain characters—like the forest critters in the unseen first panel—still don't show any Eisenberg influence to me.)<br /><br />Re: Yakky—I feel for Fibber. Duck on rye really is good.ramapithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751343744514656549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-52783196805267426342011-09-02T00:52:52.357-07:002011-09-02T00:52:52.357-07:00Did we ever learn who WROTE these?
I love the l...Did we ever learn who WROTE these? <br /><br />I love the line of Yogi’s: “I’ll sing a little song of my own decomposition!” I can really hear Daws reading that! <br /><br />And, I guess Yogi had the same “mysterious source of musical accompaniment” that Fred had as Hi Fye! Where DID that music emanate from, anyway! <br /><br />And, I’ll keep saying it as long as I can type: With all the great comic strip collections being published today, Segar’s Popeye, Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse, and so many others, why can’t someone collect Yogi and The Flintstones?!Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-70767772853595970012011-09-01T15:52:10.450-07:002011-09-01T15:52:10.450-07:00Harvey Eisenberg RULES!!!Harvey Eisenberg RULES!!!Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.com