Hanna-Barbera humor cartoon characters

      I grew up in the 1960's and loved watching cartoons on TV. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera were TV cartoon pioneers at the time. Ed Benedict and other former MGM artists came to work for the new studio. I enjoyed The Flintstones and The Jetsons in prime time. The funny animal characters like Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound dominated Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons. Some of these cartoons were enhanced by former Warner Bros. writers Michael Maltese and Warren Foster. Later, action adventure shows like Space Ghost and The Herculoids came to be with great designs by Alex Toth. For me, the single greatest Hanna Barbera show with lasting appeal is Jonny Quest, the work of Doug Wildey.
      My one outstanding piece by a studio artist is the color Jonny Quest: Shadow of the Condor page by Doug Wildey. I saw the artist at WonderCon and attended his panel, but wasn't an art collector at the time.
      Steve Rude is famous for his Nexus and the strong influence of Alex Toth's Space Ghost, but he also met with Doug Wildey in preparation for doing a story for Comico's Jonny Quest comic book. He describes the meeting in the DVD featurette Jonny Quest: Adventures in Animation. I was very happy to buy a couple pages from the first Comico issue.
      I've also picked up a few pieces of fondly remembered characters. Scott Shaw! worked for the studio in its later days and drew some of its famous characters in comic books. Bill Morrison spent part of his career doing advertising pieces.