Willie Ito Flinstones Barney Rubble originele cartoon signed

Here is an original barney (flinstones) cartoon drawing made and personally signed by the famous willie ito. In good condition. As a young child, willie ito learned to draw on the pages of sears catalogues while his family was incarcerated at the japanese internment camp in topaz, utah during world war 2.


He then studied at the chouinard art institute in los angeles before joining walt disney studios in 1954 where he became iwao takamotos assistant as an in-betweener on the lady unit of the feature film, lady and the tramp, illustrating the movie;s famous spaghetti-eating scene. Ito then worked alongside legendary animator chuck jones at warner bros.



Before joining hanna-barbera during development of the jetsons. Ito remained at hanna-barbera for the next fourteen years, where he worked on layouts and backgrounds for such series as the flintstones and the yogi bear show, and designed characters like the title characters from hong kong phooey and goober and the ghost chasers. Ito continues to draw and speak to audiences about his career at the leading animation studios. The second picture shown in the add: fellow layout man jerry eisenberg (next to willie in the 1964-ish photo to the right) and writer tony benedict. Background i do not sell copies or prints of any kind. I have been a collector of memorabilia and signed items for many years now.



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ducoso shop at de diepenhorstlaan 10d in rijswijk. Please let me know that you are interested so i can pull this one from the vault and bring it to the store.