Jerry Eisenberg – RIP
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Storyboard artist and character designer Jerry Eisenberg has passed away.
Jerome Theodore (Jerry) Eisenberg
December 14, 1937 – February 11, 2025
Animation historian Jerry Beck’s post on the death of Jerry Eisenberg with a link to Mark Evanier’s notice:
We lost a giant today – and I was a friend in his later years. He was everyone’s friend. Jerry Eisenberg. His credits are too numerous to list here. I believe he started at the end of MGM in the 1950s, around that time Jack Nicholson was the office boy (and where his father Harvey Eisenberg was one of the major animators and designers for Hanna-Barbera’s unit). Jerry moved over to Warner Bros. Cartoons in the late 1950s, then rejoined Hanna Barbera on Huckleberry Hound – and did layout and character design for pretty much every character about to be featured on MeTV Toons HOUSE OF HANNA-BARBERA (starting Sunday). He later worked for Ruby Spears (produced Plastic Man and Fang Face), Marvel Studios (Meatballs And Spagetti and Pandamonium), and on and on. Tireless. One of the good guys. Rest in peace, Jerry. Mark Evanier has the tribute you should read: https://www.newsfromme.com/2025/02/12/jerry-eisenberg-r-i-p
Animation Magazine has an obituary for the animator:
Born December 14, 1937 in Los Angeles — the son of animation and comics artist Harvey Eisenberg (Tom and Jerry) — Jerry Eisenberg attended CalArts and started his career in 1956 as an in-betweener for MGM, where his father had also worked. When the animation studio closed just seven months later, the young artist moved on Warner Bros. Cartoons, as an assistant to animator Ken Harris.
Eisenberg was hired at Hanna-Barbera Productions (founded by MGM alums William Hanna and Joseph Barbera) in 1961. Here, he notably co-created The Peter Potamus Show, provided character designs for Wacky Races and Super Friends, and worked in the layout department for hits like The Jetsons, Jonny Quest and The Huckleberry Hound Show.
Saurav Ray at Amy Movie profiles Jerry and has social media tributes to the man.
Don M. Yowp conducts a career-spanning interview in six parts with Jerry Eisenberg.
Jerry’s entry at Lambiek’s Comiclopedia details his career and notes his comic strip work.
Jerry Eisenberg also participated in the artwork of the ‘Flintstones’ and ‘Yogi Bear’ newspaper strips, supervised by Gene Hazelton and syndicated by McNaught. Between 1961 and 1962, Eisenberg did some fill-ins on ‘The Flintstones’, and, after his father’s death in mid-1965, assumed pencil duties over the ‘Yogi Bear’ Sunday comics until July 1969.
Jerry Eisenberg worked on a few Sunday pages of The Flintstones and Yogi Bear in 1961 and 1962 (relieving/assisting his father Harvey Eisenberg on the strips?). And then became the regular pencil artist of the Yogi Bear Sunday page from mid-1965 to mid-1969.
It wasn’t unusual for other Hanna-Barbera characters (Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw) to show up in the Yogi Bear Sunday pages
The Chuck Jones Catalog has a number of Jerry Eisenberg drawings.
For more about Jerry and his art get Meet Jerry.
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