{{Short description|Cartoonist}} '''Clark S. Haas Jr.''' (July 21, 1919 – January 18, 1978)<ref>{{cite web|title=California, Death Index, 1940-1997|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VPNT-6QY|publisher=FamilySearch|accessdate=15 August 2013}}</ref> was an American cartoonist and, from 1957 to 1965, owner of Cambria Studios, which produced the limited animation series ''Clutch Cargo'' (1959).
==Career==
Before working professionally in cartoons, Haas was a pioneer jet pilot, according to Cambria Studios voice actress Margaret Kerry.<ref>[http://s104588189.onlinehome.us/tinktalks/catalogclutch2.htm Margaret Kerry: Memorabilia & Collectibles - Clutch Cargo Cartoon Characters Montage Photo #2] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513155522/http://s104588189.onlinehome.us/tinktalks/catalogclutch2.htm |date=2006-05-13 }}</ref> His cartooning career started with work on the Sunday editions of the comic strips ''Buz Sawyer'' and ''Tim Tyler's Luck''. From 1949 to 1951, he had his own comic strip, ''Sunnyside'', which was distributed by Wheeler-Nicholson, Inc.
After starting Cambria Studios, he helped create and write Cambria's animated television series, ''Clutch Cargo'' (1959–1960), ''Space Angel'' (1962), ''Captain Fathom'' (1965), and ''The New Three Stooges'' (1965–1966). The first three of these series used the Syncro-Vox technique of animation developed by his Cambria partner, Edwin Gillette, in the early 1950s for producing animation quickly and at a minimal cost.
In later years Haas became associated with Hanna-Barbera and worked on their series ''The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie'' (1972), ''Super Friends'' (1973), and ''Speed Buggy'' (1973).
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==References== *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070228125621/http://www.immaginariofiorentino.com/albertopage/amimatorsa-z/animatorsh.htm Alberto's Page of American Animators active until 1970 - Letter H]}} *{{IMDb name|id=0351923|name=Clark Haas}} *[http://www.toonopedia.com/clutch.htm Clutch Cargo] at [http://www.toonopedia.com/index.htm toonopedia.com] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050326093648/http://members.aol.com/PaulEC1/clutchstory.html THE CLUTCH CARGO STORY] * "Don't believe your eyes! How 'Clutch Cargo' cuts corners as a television comic strip." ''TV Guide'' December 24, 1960, p. 28-29. * Terrace, Vincent. ''Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials, 1937-1973''. New York, New York Zoetrope. 1986.
==External links== *[https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/haas_clark.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia article.] *[https://toontracker.neocities.org/clutchcargo/cargo.htm Toon Tracker's Clutch Cargo Page]
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