The Flintstones Willie Ito Signed Drawing Fred Barney Hanna Barbera Framed OH
The Flintstones Willie Ito Signed Drawing Fred Barney Hanna Barbera Framed OH
THE FLINTSTONES
Original Drawing Signed by
WILLIE ITO
of FRED FLINTSTONE and BARNEY RUBBLE
of Hanna-Barbera, from Linda Jones Enterprises
Framed and Ready to Hang (Brand New Frame), with a Linda Jones Enterprises Seal COA
10% of the proceeds from this sale will go to the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity
Willie Ito is a LEGEND, check out his FIFTY-SIX credits on IMDB!! https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411764/
He worked on several iterations of The Flintstones - including the first one! And this is a hand-drawn image of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble done by Mr. Ito. It is also signed by him!
It has an overall framed size of 15" x 17.5".
Willie Ito: 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 II. He then studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles before joining Walt Disney Studios in 1954 where he became Iwao Takamoto’s 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.