Career
Best known for his work with William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and later at their own Hanna-Barbera Productions, Eisenberg illustrated a large number of comic book stories and comic strips starring characters such as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, and The Flintstones, while also working as an animation layout artist and character designer on the cartoons themselves. Eisneberg was a native of Brooklyn, New York City, New York, where as an adult he met another cartoonist, Joseph Barbera. Barbera later got Eisenberg a job at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in the late 1930s, where Eisenberg worked in Barbera and William Hanna"s unit doing layouts for Tom and Jerry cartoons.
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 as well. Following a series of heart attacks, Harvey Eisenberg died on April 22, 1965.
