Cartoonist who inspired HOGAN'S creativity

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 6, 1922, launched his comic strip Peanuts in 1950. Featuring hero Charlie Brown, over the years the strip would run in more than 2000 newspapers and in many languages. Peanuts also expanded into TV specials like the Emmy-winning A Charlie Brown Christmas as well as books and a huge merchandise collection. Schulz died on February 12, 2000. Hogan collected the Charlie Brown series and was so influenced by the stories that in 1979 she presented an award winning speech for The Lions Club Girl of the year based around Charlies Browns quote " If There is mothers Day and Fathers day why don't we have Childrens day and Charlie Brown replied , because every day is childrens day.

 

William Hanna & Joseph Barbera

As  animators, producers, directors. they created some of the most famous characters and shows in cartoon history. Although Hanna was an engineer , gaining employment in the depression was a challange Hanna started illutrating as a hobbie and found a new career with  a cartoon  Production Company Pacific Art and Title. In 1930, he gained employment with the creator of Loonie Tunes and Merrie Melodies, Harman-Ising Studios,

 

Barbera and Hanna commenced collaboration in 1937 at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios. Here they created the legendary Tom and Jerry, Puss Gets the Boot (1940).which recieved an Academy Award nomination. Further creations were Academy Award Winners culminating in Jerry dancing on the big screen with  with Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh (1945) and both characters braved the waters with Esther Williams in Dangerous When Wet (1953).

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SHAG - Josh Agle

Shag is a painter, designer and illustrator working in Southern California. His distinctive artistic style draws from commercial illustration from the past five decades, but the work is imbued with an attitude and sly sense of humor which is unmistakably of our time. Solo exhibitions of Shag's work have been held in the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia and South America.

The paintings themselves celebrate consumerism and consumption on vividly colored sharply rendered panels; the characters drink, smoke and eat in lavish, stylish surroundings. But Shag sees the visuals of his work as window-dressing or stage scenery. He's more concerned with the themes and narratives in the paintings, and the meanings a viewer might find when he looks at a piece of Shag art.

HANNA BARBERA STUDIOS

In 1957   MGM closed its animation unit which lead , Hanna and Barbera to establish Hanna Barbera Studios Hanna focused on  directoring and timing and  Barbera the writing. Their inguenuity lead to creating a cost effective way to produce animation for the merging Television industry. Their first TV series was in 1957  The Ruff & Reddy Show, followed by. , The Huckleberry Hound Show and Yogi Bear.

 

In 1960, Hanna-Barbera Studios birthed the infamous Stone Age send up of Suburbia, animation series ,The Flinstones, It reached the top 20 demonstrating that adults also love cartoons. enabling modern day cartoon shows such as the The Simpsons. By 1962 they created a space age family featuring Rosie the robotic maid called The Jetson's as well as the project  The Adventures of Johnny Quest and The Space Ghost.By the late 60's and early 70's the Hanna Barbera Studios were producing  further hits such as Scooby Doo, Where Are You, Charlotte's Web (1973), an animated film adaptation of E. B. White's popular children's book.,Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space and The Smurfs. According to the Los Angeles Times,  this collaboration produced more than 3,000 half-hour shows and 150 television series,

 

Hanna  won several Emmys, including in 1973 one for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming  for Last of the Curlews: The ABC Afterschool Special. In 1988 they won the The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences prestigious Governors Award .Hanna died on March 22, 2001, in Hollywood, California. He transformed the animation industry and has left a legacy of immortal characters and scripts  with whom  many generations have grown up

 

CARTOON COMIC STRIPS AND BOOKS

As a child, HOGAN spent many a hot Australian Mallee school holiday summer doodling and drawing many of the Comic Books she had accessible to her. The likes of .....Little Lotta and Little Dot, Ritchie Ritch, Dagwood, Micky Mouse and Donald Duck. The simplicity of the outlines of these characters would see her draw pages and pages of cartoon images and quick doodles inspired by her super heroes.  She spent time drawing on the back veranda of her parents secluded mallee farmhouse. From her eldest brothers "Fun to draw" book, purchased by him in in 1962, Hogan was exposed to 1940'S cartoonist such as Paul Terry, Nat Falk and Chuck Throndike. The simple strong lines of Schulz's Snoopy and her favorite Sun Herald Cartoon Strip Red Skin character Chief provided great satisfaction in her creative practices. These engaging lines developed her confidence and inspired her to draw many a storyboard of her own imagined characters.

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