• Hanna-Barbera Collector Cards Box Set 1997

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  This box set of limited edition collector’s cards was conceived and produced by the in-house creative group at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. They were distributed to licensees and our sister company Cartoon Network partner affiliates to show them the breadth of acceptable execution of the studio’s classic cartoon library characters. Under the creative leadership of Russell Hicks, artists and photographers got their hand on characters that had before chafed under restrictive direction.   Russell’s group did some of my favorite creative work while I was at the studio. And this box set was one of the choice favorites.

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• Hanna-Barbera Collector Cards 1993-1996 

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  From Hanna-Barbera’s founding in 1956 until 1992 (the studio was effectively closed by it’s latest owner Warner Bros. in 1997) the studio had no sense of its place in popular culture. When Ted Turner bought the company in 1991 he and Scott Sassa installed me as the president and we started to blow the roof off the sucker. There were many of us working at the company who grew up with it’s radical and wonderful innovations and wanted to finally gather up the respect we thought the place was due.

  

  I was particularly intrigued the way trading cards had made a resurgence in the 1980s when Yazoo Records commissioned R.Crumb to create a “Heros of the Blues” set. The three boxes below were the result of my torturing our creative services teams to use the same technique to resurrect our characters in the 90s.

  

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