Remembering Jerry...

Looks like my pal Jerry Eisenberg passed away 😪 Jerry and I became fast friends when we met at Hanna-Barbera years ago. Some people you just hit it off with immediately, and Jerry was one of those people. He worked on so many Hanna-Barbera characters, that I think of him often. He worked on The Flintstones, designed the Banana Splits, designed Peter Potomus, Wacky Races, Fang face, Jabberjaw, etc, etc. He even helped Steve Nakagawa on Rankin/Bass' The Mouse on the Mayflower. His father Harvey, was a great Hanna-Barbera artist too, and he shared some of his father's work with me. Sad to see him go! Not many left from Hanna-Barbera now. #JerryEisenberg

The Mouse on the mayflower

The Peter Potamus show

 

The Real Banana Splits

 I have always been a big Banana Splits fan!  My living legend friend Jerry Eisenberg designed the characters at Hanna-Barbera and Sid & Marty Krofft made the costumes, but it was the great voice actors that really brought the characters to life with a wonderful personality!

 Paul Winchell gave the leader Fleegle a wonderfully, funny voice as he did his many other characters including Tigger.   

 Daws Butler brought Bingo to life in perhaps the funniest of the bunch!  They all had an over the top delivery!

 Drooper was a favorite of mine too!  I loved them all!   Melvin did such a wonderful job with Magilla Gorilla that Hanna-Barbera had to use him again for something and Drooper was a winner!

Snorky was a mute with a horn sounding off ala Harpo Marx.   I have The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park on dvd and it is interesting to watch the Splits, both in live action and cel animation with their great voice counterparts, 

Doin' the Banana Splits!

My pal Jerry Eisenberg's design of the Splits

HARVEY & JERRY EISENBERG

Had a nice conversation with my pal Jerry Eisenberg tonight and we got on the subject of his dad Harvey smile emoticon We talked about his father's presentation board for HANNA-BARBERA'S TOP CAT, so had to dig it out tonight. He said his father boarded several of the early BREEZLY & SNEEZLY's and he wished he would have asked for them.

Jerry Eisenberg's Holiday card came today...

along with his original drawing inside of FANGFACE. Jerry has been a pal for a while and worked on many of the classic HANNA-BARBERA shows including THE FLINTSTONES, the PETER POTOMUS show, The MAGILLA GORILLA show and many more!