Harvey Eisenberg was an American animator and comic book artist. He worked prolifically at the original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio and later Hanna-Barbera.
Biography[]
Eisenberg began his career at the MGM cartoon studio in the late 1930s, where he worked in Joseph Barbera and William Hanna's unit doing layouts for Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1941 to 1945. From 1946 to 1951, Eisenberg and Barbera were partners in Dearfield Publishing, a comic book company with titles such as "Red" Rabbit Comics, Foxy Fagan, and Junie Prom.
Eisenberg went into comic book illustration full-time from the late 1940s on, and illustrated many issues of Tom and Jerry and later Hanna-Barbera related comic books and children's books. His prolific career as an illustrator of Hanna-Barbera comics has drawn comparison to the work Carl Barks did for Walt Disney Productions.
Eisenberg's son Jerry Eisenberg became a storyboard artist, layout artist, and character designer for Hanna-Barbera in the late 1950s, and later also worked for Ruby-Spears Productions.