Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The San Diego Comic Con commences next week and I’ll be there. If you want to meet me and say hello, I’ll be signing copies of my book The Hanna Barbera Treasury on Thursday July 24th, 2pm to 3pm and again on Friday 7/25 from 11am till noon, at the Insight Editions/Palace Publishing booth 2913-J [...]
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
By David Lambert - Last week Warner officially announced that September 30th would see the release of Popeye & Friends - Volume 2, a single-disc release with 4 color cartoons from 1987's Hanna-Barbera... (more)
Martin Klasch (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Hanna-Barbera 3-D Viewmaster images at Bob Logan's blog . Via This Isn't Happiness via PCL LinkDump Viewmaster (Wikipedia) PS. Does anyone know of any other nice sites showing Viewmaster images? ---
Drawn! (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Love love LOVE the various scans of 3D Hanna-Barbera ViewMaster slides over at Bob Logan’s blog. I only wish there were some Flintstones samples! (via Cartoon Brew)
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
A veritable plethora of vintage Hanna-Barbera 3-D Viewmaster images can be found at Bob Logan's blog , which I found with some help from Cool-Mo-Dee .
PIDGEONBLOG (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Bob Logan has figured out how to scan old View-Master reels, and he's generously put many of my favorite images on his blog . Take a look! I love these old 3-D set-ups - they're so charming! I hope someone at McFarlane Toys uses them as reference for their Hanna-Barbera figure line. Here's hoping...
Animated News (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Amid at Cartoon Brew takes a nostalgic look at the wonderful View-master reels of classic Hanna-Barbera characters created back in 1960, unearthed by Bob Logan.
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Just because a drawn-character is translated into 3D, doesn’t mean it needs to look unappealing, ugly and clumsy. These vintage View-master reels of Hanna-Barbera characters posted by Bob Logan are a good example of how to translate 2D designs into appealing 3D forms. (Thanks, Will) share
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
in post AS A PRELUDE TO SUNDAYS UNDER THE COVERS: THE ORIGINALS from MOG Most discussed tracks .
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
As I mentioned back in March, ForeWord Magazine, the only literary trade journal devoted exclusively to covering independent publishers, had nominated my book, The Hanna Barbera Treasury, for Book of the Year. The winners were announced yesterday at the Book Expo in Los Angeles, and apparently the Hanna Barbera book was the first place (Gold) [...]
The Johnny Bacardi LiveJournal Show (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
RIP Harvey Korman . I suppose the first time I was exposed to his talents was as a child watching The Flintstones , as his was the voice of the Great Gazoo - a little outer-space guy character which was brought in in the last year of that show by 60s space-craze crazy Hanna-Barbera, and divides Flintstones fans to this day. Me, I've always kinda liked him and Korman's voice was perfect in its smug,...
xplsv.tv // reviews (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
“Very fluid! reminds me to hanna barbera cartoons – which I guess it's good ” - sole
bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Iwao Takamoto, who died last year at 81, was an artist who worked at Disney and later at Hanna-Barbera, where he came up with Scooby-Doo (above). In Takamoto's obituary passing mention was made of the fact that he also created...
The Mayor of Television (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
A while back, Adult Swim began to seem to lose its way. Cartoon Network's late-night bloc aimed at 14-year-old boys made its name on its inspired parody spin-offs of old Hanna-Barbera characters - "Space Ghost Coast to Coast," "Harvey Birdman,...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Ron Stark of S/R Laboratories in Westlake Village, California, sent me his latest animation auction catalog and it's loaded with goodies. There are some amazing Disney, Warner Brothers, UPA, and Hanna-Barbera cels, drawings and backgrounds, but I was especially excited by several Private Snafu (above) and Seaman Hook originals. Most of the catalog is a [...]
