Scooby-Doo creator dies

The animation world was dealt another blow this week when Iwao Takamoto, the cartoonist who created Scooby-Doo, died Monday in California at the age of 81, AP reported.
Takamoto got his start at Disney studios and was part of the mass exodus that created the famed Hanna Barbara studios.
At HB, he was credited with work on “The Jetsons,” “The Flintstones,” “Josie and the Pussy Cats,” and “The Secret Squirrel Show,” and he also directed the full-length feature “Charlotte’s Web.”
But his most famous creation was the lovable, but cowardly dog, Scooby-Doo.
Takamoto said he created Scooby-Doo after talking with a Great Dane breeder, and named him after Frank Sinatra’s final phrase in “Strangers in the Night,” the AP article stated.
Takamoto’s death follows closely to the death of Joe Barbara, part of the Hanna Barbara team that employed Takamoto. Barbara died in mid December.

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