#Igoo

[chernobog13]

Birdman and the Herculoids by Steve Rude.

#Biurdman #The Herculoids #Zok #Tara #Zandor #Tundro #Gloop #Igoo #Gleep #Dorno #Hanna-Barbera #Steve Rude

[acmeoop]

The Herculoids Pitch Art & Model Cel (1966/67)

#60s #hanna barbera #the herculoids #pitch art #presentation art #character designs #alex toth #production art #animation art #zandor #tara #dorno #zok #igoo #tundro #gloop and gleep #early designs

[thehauntedrocket]

Herculoids - Igoo

Art by Steve Rude

#Comics #Steve Rude #Herculoids #Igoo #Animation #Cartoons #Saturday Morning TV #Science Fiction #Science Fiction Art #Science Fiction Illustration #Art #Hanna-Barbera

[ericmhe]

Took a few liberties, gave it a grainy filter because the series is from early color TV days and I find it fun to do that sometimes. Tried to make Gleep and Gloop a little bit see-through because I thought it might be fun, but I should probably look up tutorials on how to be more effective at that.

#hanna barbera #retro cartoon #herculoids #igoo #zok #gleep #gloop #tendro

[the-gershomite]

The Herculoids by Lord

#the herculoids #Dorno #Tara #Gloop and Gleep #Igoo #Tundro #Zok #Zandor #Lord #cartoon art

[hadouwave]

Top 8 favourites

#Astro boy #Tetsuwan atom #Atom #Ryu #Street fighter #pegasus seiya #Saint seiya #Terry bogard #Kof #The King of fighters #arle nadja #madou monogatari #puyo puyo #Superman #Hulk #The incredible hulk #Igoo #the herculoids

[darker-than-darkstorm]

Not about the Queen

I have been falling asleep lately to episodes of the Herculoids, and let me tell you, it has quickly become one of my favorite old cartoons.

It is Fuck Around And Find Out: The Series.

Every episode is just some neighboring (or even alien) overlord showing up at Zandor’s place and...

Wait, let me go back a bit. Introductions are in order. Meet our heroes, all lovingly designed by the late, great Alex Toth:

Zandor is that guy in the middle.  To the left is his wife Tara, to the right is his son Dorno.  (Dorno calls Zandor and Tara by their first names all the time, but the opening narration establishes their relationship).  Zandor has a shield that blocks pretty much anything, and a slingshot that shoots powerful energy rocks, and is the tactician. Tara and Dorno sometimes use similar slingshots, though Tara is unfortunately often a damsel in distress, but not quite as much as you’d expect for a show from this era.

They look very primitive, but they were extremely familiar with advanced civilizations and high technology. There’s a vague implication that Zandor, at least, is from a more advanced society and just wanted to get away from it all by moving to this extremely backwater planet. They don’t even live in a house, they instead have a mostly-open shelter and sleep outside, but Zandor has no trouble piloting spaceships (usually left behind by a previous villain).

Those weird-ass monsters behind the humans are the Herculoids themselves. Despite their monstrous forms, they are definitely the real heroes and the real stars of this show. They don’t talk, but they each have their own distinctive voice for roars despite three of them being played by the same guy (Mike Road, who also voices Zandor). Even the two blobs have different voices, with the larger one having a deeper voice (but, again, both played by the same person, Don “Scooby-Doo” Messick, who also voiced a lot of the villains). They also understand English perfectly, and Zandor understands them.

That’s Tundro on the left: he shoots energy rocks from his horn, that flower-petal-like arrangement around his head blocks things being shot at him, and, though you can’t see it in this picture, he has eight little legs and can charge at high speeds. He’s weirdly cute in motion, because his legs are so stubby (though he can also extend them to become very, very tall).

On the right, Igoo. He’s an ape made of rock. Like if the Thing from the Fantastic Four was ten feet tall and couldn’t talk. He was at a disadvantage at ranged combat (he could just throw things, and everything he threw tended to get shot out of the air), but in melee he was unstoppable.  Very hard to hurt, as well. Because he’s the most humanoid, he’s the most likely to be comic relief (again, sort of like the Thing), but also the most likely to punch a robot’s head off when energy rocks and laser beams aren’t quite doing it.

Gloop and Gleep are the two blob-like things with the big eyes. Gloop is the big one, Gleep the little one. Possibly the least powerful offensively, but impossible to hurt (they often used their bodies to shield the humans) and incredibly versatile, able to stretch and turn into pretty much anything (shades of Mr. Fantastic, speaking of the Fantastic Four — no equivalent to The Invisible Woman or the Human Torch, if you’re wondering). It’s never explained their exact relation to one another. They’ve killed a few folks by squeezing them to death. (I’m not exaggerating, incidentally. The aliens definitely died)

And last but not least, in the back, Zok. He’s a dragon that shoots lasers from his eyes and tail, and he’s exactly as cool as that sounds. Very rarely he breathes fire (which I think only happened in the 1980s episodes), but usually it’s lasers. Slightly less durable than the others, but he can fly.  I mean, look at him:

I love that guy.

And almost every episode, some villainous idiot shows up and goes “Aha, it is Zandor and the Herculoids!” — yes, they all know who he is already, and call him by name, which makes the impending defeat all the more humiliating — “I believe I will attack them for some reason that has to do with my plan to take over this planet and/or the universe!” And then they usually send out dozens of troops who look mostly like the leader but with slightly simpler costume design. Sometimes they send out robots or even a giant monster instead. Sometimes this is just a distraction while they use a machine to steal the planet’s air (Spaceballs ain’t got nothin’ on these guys) or invade a nearby village to steal their gold, but just as often they just are there specifically to capture and/or kill Zandor and the Herculoids.

And by the end of every single episode, the villain’s troops are all dead, their “unstoppable” gizmo is wrecked, their spaceship or fortress reduced to rubble. Usually, that was it for them, implied to have been killed when their ship crashed or their fortress exploded. (Sometimes they escaped at the end and didn’t return; sometimes they escaped at the end and actually did return once in a later episode. Once the villain returned even though they had seemingly been killed in their previous appearance, and they managed to escape at the end of that episode, too, though that was also their last appearance)

And almost every single episode has a point where the villain has a chance to just surrender and leave, and Zandor often even offers to let them go if they’ll just stop, but they never take it. They always double down. “Sure, the giant nearly-invulnerable monsters easily thwarted my first attack and murdered half my troops”, they say, “But now I shall do exactly the same thing but harder; surely that will work! Go, my remaining loyal minions! Use a slightly larger laser cannon this time!”  Spoiler: it doesn’t work. In another few minutes, they will all be dead, and the leader’s last-ditch attack will also fail, leaving him (or, once, her) also very dead.

They always fuck around and boy do they find out.

(There’s some episodes where a monster is just spontaneously generated out of a swamp or hatches from an egg or something, but the overconfident villains make up the majority.  At least once they crossed over with Space Ghost, which was done by the same animation and writing team)

I honestly love it. I love all the goofy Alex Toth designed 1960s H-B cartoons (Space Ghost, Mighty Mightor, etc) and also the weird in-between series Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles (which has character and background design reminiscent of the Jetsons but the writing of their Space Ghost-era superhero cartoons), but The Herculoids is absolutely my favorite.

I find nothing as soothing as old superhero cartoons where you don’t have to focus on the myriad plot twists (because there are none), just watch and enjoy the explosions. Or drift off to sleep while explosions happen.m

#Herculoids #The Herculoids #HB #Hanna-Barbera #Space Ghost #Not Really Space Ghost #Zandor #Tara #Dorno #Tundro #Igoo #Gloop #Gleep #Zok #LASER DRAGON

[doodlebags]

#Tara from the #Herculoids for a #Julyfi #sketch . . . . . #art #illustration #doodlebags #doodle #draw #drawing #nashville #nashvilleartist #nashvilleart #digitaldrawing #saturdaymorningcartoons #cartoons #cartooncharacters #hannabarbera #igoo https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgh2lSnusOi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tara #herculoids #julyfi #sketch #art #illustration #doodlebags #doodle #draw #drawing #nashville #nashvilleartist #nashvilleart #digitaldrawing #saturdaymorningcartoons #cartoons #cartooncharacters #hannabarbera #igoo

[igoo-t]

(҂` ﾛ ´) ⠀♰⠀ 📰 ʾ ⠀♡⃕⠀

#bts #bangtan #bts jungkook #jungkook moodboard #moodboard black #moodboard #igoo t #bts jk #jk #Jk boyfriend #boyfriend jungkook #jungkook #jung kook #bts army #bts jk moodboard #jeon jk #jk icons #igoo-t

[lavishtine]

Omg, Tragic Mick gave Niko a polar bear charm and when we see her again, she's in the (presumed) arctic in an igoo with her sprites. I never thought she died before, but I definitely don't think she's dead, nor do I think that would be her afterlife. Niko, my dear, come back to us!

#dead boy detectives #niko sasaki #tragic mick

[chernobog13]

The Herculoids by Alex Ross.

#The Herculoids #Igoo #Gloop #Zok #Zandor #Gleep #Tundro #Tara #Dorno #Hanna-Barbera #Alex Ross

[frankendykes-monster]

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, two former animation directors for MGM’s Tom & Jerry theatrical shorts, all but revolutionized animation on TV. By focusing on character models and backgrounds and limiting actual movement, Hanna-Barbera were able to create dozens of hours of television cartoons. They began with kids comedies like The Huckleberry Hound Show and Yogi Bear; then they transitioned to primetime sitcoms like The Flintstones and The Jetsons. Eventually, beginning with Jonny Quest in 1964, they’d also do action series. By the end of the ’60s, H-B gave audiences possibly the weirdest of these series: The Herculoids.

Jonny Quest proved you could do action animation without much, well, action or animation. The series got by on its amazing, comic-book-like designs and tableaux. While Quest only lasted one season in primetime, it proved the studio could appeal to a young audience in the market for action, adventure, a little bit of horror, and science fiction. Hiring character designer and eventual series creator Alex Toth, H-B gave the world Space Ghost and Dino Boy, a half-hour timeslot made up of two mini-episodes of Space Ghost and one of a much less interesting show, Dino Boy in the Lost Valley. Toth would similarly create Birdman and the Galaxy Trio.

In both instances, Toth’s talents created a superhero series with unique and offbeat villains fighting a stalwart hero. Whether patrolling space or Earth, Space Ghost and Birdman were typical superhero-types fighting against various baddies. But The Herculoids, which premiered in 1967, the same year as Birdman, was different. It was almost like Toth wanted to see if he could make a series entirely about character design, with hardly any world building or “rules” as such.

The show’s opening narration bears this out. Its first line—spoken by voice actor Mike Road, who voices basically every adult male and creature on the show—is exceptionally vague. SOMEWHERE OUT IN SPACE LIVE THE HERCULOIDS.

That’s it! That’s all we know before we get a rollcall of characters.

"Zok, the laser ray dragon; Igoo, the giant rock ape; Tundro the tremendous; Gloop and Gleep, the formless, fearless wonders; with Zandor, their leader, and his wife Tara and son Dorno. They team up to defend their planet from sinister invaders. All strong, all brave, all heroes. They’re…The Herculoids!"

That is literally all we ever get in terms of who or what the characters are. Zandor, Tara, and Dorno are all humans who look vaguely like Robert E. Howard barbarians. But those other weirdos?! They don’t look like they’re from the same planet, much less the same team. Zok is just a dragon. You know dragons. Igoo is a gorilla made of rock. Tundro is a six-legged mix of a rhino and an armadillo who shoots energy balls from its horn. And Gloop and Gleep are just blobs of stretchy goo with two black eyeballs. Certainly very iconic designs, but not of a piece in any way. We don’t even know what a “Herculoid” is and why this group are them.

Moreover, all they do is fight off planetary invaders. But why these interlopers want the planet (which is either called Amzot or Quasar depending on the episode) is never established; it looks for the most part like a primeval world full of jungles and rocks. It’s not until the ninth episode that we even see other people on the planet, as the Herculoids help some villagers who are under attack from raider apes. Sometimes there are castles on the planet, sometimes just grass huts, other times no signs of life at all.

And the villains are all, for the most part, way better equipped. Invading armies or robot death squads, each with armor and laser guns. And yet a man with a shield and a slingshot (yes really) and his gang of weird beasts that don’t talk always win. Each of the 18 episodes of the series consists of two usually unrelated adventures. There’s nothing like a central narrative at work throughout any of them, and each adventure is pretty much the same, save for a new villain or threat. Only one baddie ever even recurs. You can essentially watch any episode in any order. And yet, all of these very strange disparate elements totally work for me. This was a show designed to keep kids engaged for 20 minutes at a time and it’s fully watchable as such. In its gorgeous Blu-ray edition from Warner Archive, I can just throw on a disc and hit “play all” and just enjoy myself while I do other things. It’s got monsters fighting robots and stuff, man! What more could you want?!

The Herculoids gained a fervent cult following over the years, mainly due to its undeniably cool character designs. In 1981, Hanna-Barbera brought them back as part of their Space Stars block along with Space Ghost and two additional space-themed hero shows. I remember my dad being so excited to introduce me to The Herculoids when we got Cartoon Network in the ’90s; this was the peak of animated action when he was growing up.

Toth was a lot like the Jack Kirby of animation. He let his imagination run wild with characters and designs, and for several years, he was the king. If nothing else, The Herculoids occupies a special place in the history of Hanna-Barbera animation in the pre- Scooby-Doo 1960s. And without The Herculoids, Hanna-Barbera offshoot Ruby-Spears Productions would never have produced Thundarr the Barbarian, and that show absolutely rules. Oh wait, that’s right; Kirby and Toth designed those characters too.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"NO ONE WAS USING THESE CHARACTERS AT THE TIME I PAINTED THIS" -- THE HANNA-BARBERA UNIVERSE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a piece titled "Hanna-Barbera Heroes" (2001), artwork by Alex Ross, and created for the Warner Bros. Studio Stores as a tribute to the most notable superhero types of characters from Hanna-Barbera’s extensive library of cartoon shows.

"No one was using these characters at the time I painted this.  They weren’t even in regular rotation on Cartoon Network at the time. I talked Warner Bros. into letting me do this huge image, even though I was unfamiliar with many of the characters."

-- ALEX ROSS (American comic-book artist/writer/painter) on his "Hanna-Barbera" piece

Now, for one of the greatest roll calls I've ever posted on here, so here goes:

The Blue Falcon and Dyno-Mutt ("Blue Falcon & Dyno-Mutt"); Blip, Jan, Jace, and Space Ghost ("Space Ghost"); Shazzan, Kaboobie, Chuck, and Nancy ("Shazzan"); Tundro, Gleep, Igoo, Gloop, Zok, Tara, King Zandor, and Dorno ("The Herculoids"); Samson and Goliath ("Samson & Goliath"); Jayna, Gleek, Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, Zan, Samurai, Marvin, Wendy, and Wonder Dog ("Super Friends"); Mightor ("The Mighty Mightor"); Avenger and Birdman ("Birdman"); Vapor Man, Meteor Man, and Gravity Girl ("The Galaxy Trio"); Raseem, Bez, Fariik, Prince Turhan, Princess Nida, and Zazuum ("Arabian Knights"); and Jana ("Jana of the Jungle").

Resolution from largest to smallest: 3552x2688, 3476x2400, 3183x1571, & 1280x1222 (2x).

Source: www.illustrationhistory.org/illustrations/hanna-barbera-heroes.

#Blue Falcon and Dyno Mutt #Cartoons #Hanna Barbera Studios #Hanna-Barbera #Blue Falcon #Dynomutt #Space Ghost #Shazzan #The Herculoids #Herculoids #Samson & Goliath #The Mighty Mightor #Super Friends #Birdman #Galaxy Trio #Hanna-Barbera Animation #Animation #Hanna-Barbera Cartoons #TV Cartoons #The Galaxy Trio #Dynomutt Dogwonder #American Style #Watercolors #Alex Ross #Arabian Knights #Alex Ross Art #Sci-fi #Jana of the Jungle #Gouache #Sci-fi Art

[ericmhe]

Really random impulse to draw these guys, it was an old cartoon already even when I was young and I really don't recall forming a strong attachment. Well, I always thought Tendro's thing of being a pillbug-rhino-Triceratops-artillery-thing was kinda neat. Still skipping humans for now so no space barbarian family with these guys, just the aliens.

#hanna barbera #retro cartoon #herculoids #igoo #zok #gleep and gloop #tendro

[male1971]

The Herculoids (1967) CBS

On the planet Amzot, the space barbarian family Zandor, Tara and son Dorno fight alongside their giant pets the Herculoids—laser dragon Zok, space rhinoceros Tundro, rock ape Igoo and the shape-shifting Gloop and his son Gleep—to keep their planet safe from invading robots, mad scientists and mutants.

Painting by Alex Ross

#alex ross #herculoids #saturday morning cartoons

[toxic-gin]

“ Asking for... a friend, but dose anyone know how to get tiny slime rat paw prints out of a lab coat...i don’t think master will apricate the little feets Igoo left behind..”

#Toxi thoughts #pronouced E goo