Tag "Jonny Quest"

Who Can Turn the World on with His Voice

May 2, 2013 by Michael Mallory 2 Comments divider image

Whereas once animation was the province of a small, but talented group of actors who specialized in voice work––Mel Blanc, June Foray, Daws Butler and Don Messick among others––today one is just as apt to see a major Hollywood A-lister taking a role in an animated project as not. This [...]

A Capital Venture

April 12, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan 1 Comment divider image

Show creators Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick discuss tackling season five of The Venture Bros. for Adult Swim, and what keeps fans coming back for more. Back in 2003, as Adult Swim viewers were enjoying spoofy recycles of defunct toon heroes in shows like Space Ghost Coast to Coast, The [...]

Hoyt Curtin’s Jug band Session

March 15, 2012 by Michael Mallory 1 Comment divider image

You may or may not know the name Hoyt Curtin, but there’s no question you’ve heard his work. So has anyone who has owned a television since 1960. Hoyt was the musical director for Hanna-Barbera during their television heyday, and the composer of such classic theme songs those that opened [...]

Alex Toth: Out of Griping Comes Success

September 8, 2011 by Michael Mallory 1 Comment divider image

Like politics, animation sometimes makes strange bedfellows, particularly when creative visions and egos are involved. Back in the late 1990s, when I was regularly meeting with Joe Barbera in the hopes of putting a book together for him (one that would never be completed, alas), I heard a lot about [...]