R.I.P. Tony Benedict

(I hate to felt to own an obligation to updating this blog, but this is another one that need to be widely spread, about one man who had put a well-deserved contribution to the animation business.)

We'll just known this morning that animation writer Tony Benedict has passed away at age 88. The Yowp's blog mentionned it. Mark Evanier do it as well. At a Hanna-Barbera studio fan, I had no choice, but, to honored the legacy of another great and caring man who was loved by everyone.

His animation career beginning years after he went out of the Marine Corps. He started by worked for Walt Disney in 1956, then at an in-betweener (Or assistant animation for be clear) for the Sleeping Beauty feature until to moved in 1959 at U.P.A. for directed several Mr. Magoo shorts.

But when more writers was in demand in the Hanna-Barbera studio and specifically, for the prime time animated project that came in, Tony Benedict was there for wrote the scripts, and then, working on several Huckleberry Hound and Yakee Doodle episodes, which he made a sort of Alfred Hitchcock impersonation, Alfie Gator. It's obvious that he was a fan of the suspense's master, or at least, the TV show that was still-on at that time.

This is clear that Benedict was more assigned to wrote stories for The Magilla Gorilla Show, the original Secret Squirrel's cartoons segments and also, The Jetsons, which it's by him alone, that the creation of Astro may existed.

Anytime you read the ending credits and seen his name billed there, you know already that you are in paradise, even if the studio is badly known and remembered by dismal haters to churned on very-bad-quality products all over and keep to re-using the same old characters (Sometimes at crossovers) in different spots.

But like it does with Jerry Eisenberg that year, Tony's legacy to keep ran the animation business at endearing for all ages of audience have to be celebrated and remembered. Though his health condition weren't that good in the later years. We have no choice, but to thinking that without his contribution, the likes of Jetsons, Magilla and others would never be made the day for what we'll took it for granted today. It couldn't be that hard to known that people make cartoons for raise their own families and not that for art or make topical changes like it is currently the norm in modern-day animation.

It only prove me again that the Hanna-Barbera studio's fans and artists keep to staying the greatest people who have ever made this ground.