Harry-Go-Round » Tex Rodent http://harrymccracken.com/blog Harry McCracken's blog Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:31:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Great Artifacts of Hanna-Barbera Merchandising http://harrymccracken.com/blog/2008/08/05/great-artifacts-of-hanna-barbera-merchandising/ http://harrymccracken.com/blog/2008/08/05/great-artifacts-of-hanna-barbera-merchandising/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:32:02 +0000 Harry http://www.harrymccracken.com/blog/2008/08/05/great-artifacts-of-hanna-barbera-merchandising/ While strolling through an antique collective in Sebastopol, California this weekend, I came across an unopened vintage package of Huckleberry Hound birthday party plates (pardon the fuzzy iPhone photo):

The characters represented include a poor tracing of a stock post of Huck, even worse renditions of Yogi, Boo Boo, Yakky Doodle, Snuffes, and Mr. Jinks, a [...]]]> While strolling through an antique collective in Sebastopol, California this weekend, I came across an unopened vintage package of Huckleberry Hound birthday party plates (pardon the fuzzy iPhone photo):

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The characters represented include a poor tracing of a stock post of Huck, even worse renditions of Yogi, Boo Boo, Yakky Doodle, Snuffes, and Mr. Jinks, a barely recognizable Pixie and Dixie, a couple of crows, a wasp…and a giant cowboy mouse wearing a hat identifying himself as “Tex.”

I don’t remember a Tex Rodent in early Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Am I forgetting him?

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