April 12, 2024
YOGI BEAR ORIGINAL SUN. COMIC STRIP GENE HAZELTON 1970
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ORIGINAL YOGI BEAR SUNDAY COMIC STRIP BY GENE HAZELTON (1919-2005), 11/15/70. Unsigned (paper size: 23" x 14 1/2"). Blue pencil, brush and ink. Drawing paper is solid with yellowing around the edges, as seen in scans. � (From Lambiek): Gene Hazelton was an animator and artist of newspaper comics. At college, he got the offer to work as Jimmy Hatlo's assistant. He declined, since he prefered working in animation. He was hired by the Walt Disney Studios in 1939, where he worked as an animator. Hazelton did the character designs for Disney's Wind in the Willows in 1939. The characters were translated to the screen exactly as he created them when the film was made ten years later. He also animated goat kids and cherubs for Disney's 'Fantasia' and the boys in the "Pleasure Island" sequence of 'Pinocchio'. After the 1941 labor strike at Disney, Hazelton went to Warner Bros, where he worked for Robert Clampett. He did animated lay-outs and character designs at MGM for Hanna & Barbera and Tex Avery from 1950-1957. When MGM closed its animated studio, he partnered with fellow animator Ray Patterson and began producing some of the first animated TV commercials. In the early 1950s Gene Hazelton and Tex Avery worked out of the same Beverly Hills office building housing the studios of George McManus ('Bringing Up Father') and Frank Willard ('
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