Man of our toons... Joe Barbera, flanked by Scooby-Doo, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, with his lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Joe Barbera's death at 95 yesterday has sparked off a nostalgia rush in many bloggers as they pay tribute to the co-creator of such cartoon classics as Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo and the Flintstones.
The TV Squad blog writes that Barbera and his partner, Bill Hanna were behind the most endearing cartoon characters of all time: "From their first major creation, Tom and Jerry, they went on to create memorable characters like Yogi Bear, the Flinstones, the Jetsons, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby-Doo, and Jabberjaw (well, the last one was only memorable to me, I think)."
The Child of TV blog called Hanna-Barbera the "godfathers of the Simpsons", while the Cartoon Brew blog contains a host of tributes from many who knew Barbera personally, including the animators Bert Klein, Mark Evanier, Floyd Norman and Paul Dini, who says Barbera was "animation's answer to Sinatra".
From a vintage episode of Tom and Jerry to Yogi Bear - how will you remember the talent of the Hanna-Barbera animation team?
