So long, Ed.

[Peter Triggs]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001320029-2006470352,00.html

THE legendary animator behind The Flintstones has died age 94.

Ed Benedict passed away at the end of August but his longtime friend and co-animator David K Sheldon has only just revealed the news.

Sheldon said: "He was quite an interesting fellow, that's for sure. He was the main character designer for all the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw."

But Benedict was most famous for designing the main characters in The Flintstones - Fred Flintstone and his pal Barney Rubble, as well as their wives Wilma and Betty.

You gave us many chuckles.

[MichaeltheGreat]

I recently got several DVDs and tapes of classic HB stuff, much of it Ed's work. Fun, funny stuff.

RIP

[Stuie]

Finally, a thread that is meaningful.

Ed

[Provost Harrison]

Only the good die old

[Winston]

Ooh, Betty & Wilma!

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RIP Ed Benedict.

[Provost Harrison]

Didn't Wilma say bollocks on the Flintstones once?

[Hueij]

"...He was the main character designer for all the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw."

Since when are those "early" Hanna-Barbera cartoons?

[Ninot]

Too few realise the genious behind Flinstones episodes

RIP

ps: I thought this thread would be about Ed the horse.

[Dinner]

Back in those days EVERYTHING had to be done by hand. Truly it took a real artist.