Scooby-Doo is a cartoon of a Great Dane that solves mysteries with his friends. Scooby's best friend is a teenager named Shaggy. Scooby loves to eat Scooby snacks. The cartoon was created in 1969 and is still on TV. It was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and character designer Iwao Takamoto. In the show Scooby-Doo is friends with four teenagers: Fred "Freddie" Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers. The group is called Mystery, Inc.
Iwao Takamoto was the main creator of Scooby-Doo. He was alive between 1926-2007. He died at the age of 81 due to heart failure. He also helped make Peter Pan and Cinderella. He got his inspiration for the of name Scooby-Doo by the crazy phrases Frank Sinatra was scatting at the end of “Strangers in the Night.” Scooby-Doo is now a big hit cartoon show and there are many versions of it. Scooby-Doo also movies out most of them are cartoon and two of them are realistic.