Does anyone know whether this man was a liberal or a conservative? I've never heard one way or the other about Messrs. Hanna & Barbera.
~ Blue Jays ~
I haven't ever heard.
Does it matter whether he was conservative or liberal? People of all ilk are capable of producing good work, and ideology doesn't should not have to be inextricably linked to everything.
Rest in peace, Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna. Thanks for the entertainment.
Most of that opinion is based on the Smurfs (my first attempt at amateur psychoanalysis of a cartoon or other public media)
There were only two smurf characters that had gender ... Papa and Smurfette ... all the rest had names pertaining to whatever guild they were a member of, Carpenter Smurf, Policeman Smurf, etc.
In my amateurnish way, I saw the subliminal message of a large family ... one old guy, his young chick breeder and all the little ones resulting from.
Though none of Hanna-Barbera cartoons were especially interesting to me (Tom and Jerry were about the most violent cartoon characters ever produced and the mouse, in reality, almost always loses to the hunter cat ... Jerry generally makes a shmuck out of Tom) ... I did enjoy Ralph, Alice, Ed and Trixie in the Honeymooners ... I mean ... um ... The Flintstones.
Back in those days, you were just an American. I long for the days when I didn't have a clue what political leanings a star, singer or comic had!
Seems to me he kept his politics out of his cartoons. That is the way it should be.