 Hanna and Barbera won seven Academy Awards for Tom and Jerry |
He died of natural causes at home with his wife, Sheila, at his side.
With William Hanna, Barbera founded Hanna-Barbera in the 1950s, after the pair had earlier worked on the Tom and Jerry cartoons at MGM studios.
"Joe will live on through his work," said Warner Brothers chairman and CEO, Barry Meyer.
"The characters he created with his late partner, William Hanna, are not only animated superstars but also a very beloved part of American pop culture," Mr Meyer said.
Cat and mouse collaboration
Barbera grew up in Brooklyn and started to pursue a career in banking.
But his amateur sketches soon became the raw material for cartoons which were published in Collier's magazine, a breakthrough which then took him into animation.
He met Hanna - who died in 2001 - at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio and collaborated on a 1937 cartoon called Puss Gets the Boot, which led to the creation of the cat and mouse characters, Tom and Jerry.
Their 17-year partnership on the Tom and Jerry series resulted in seven Academy Awards and 14 nominations in total.
Extended format
The pair left MGM and formed Hanna-Barbera Studios in 1957, where they created numerous classic characters, including The Jetsons and The Flintstones.
Hanna-Barbera extended cartoons beyond the traditional six-minute slots.
The Flintstones, featuring two modern-minded couples living in the stone age, was the first animated series to be broadcast on prime-time television, and the first to feature human characters, rather than just animals.
In the decades that followed, Hanna-Barbera produced 300 cartoon series, with more than 3,000 half-hour shows.
Scooby-Doo, a Great Dane who leads a group of teenagers in ghost-hunting adventures, made his debut in 1969 and the series ran for 17 years, a record for a TV animated series.
"They were able to bring top quality cartoon shows to television," said actor Casey Kasem, the voice of Shaggy, Scooby-Doo's unkempt sidekick.
"When they came along and they did it, they made it profitable for people who were big investors," he told the BBC.
"It's a legacy that he has that has touched people around the world with what I call magic, they just kept producing one great show after another."
| Barbera started out with Tom and Jerry |
Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, Mutley were but a few of the characters he created.
While Hanna took care of the technical side, it was Barbera who did the sketching.
His love of drawing began at his Catholic elementary school in New York from which his mother withdrew him because he spent more time drawing pictures of Jesus than studying him.
Despite his ambitions as an artist, he was persuaded to pursue a "proper" job. At the age of 16, Barbera put his drawing to one side and took a job as a bank clerk.
Yet his sketching had become an addiction. In his spare time, he continued to draw, earning extra money submitting cartoons to Collier's magazine.
After losing his job in the Depression, in 1937 he joined the newly-formed cartoon department of MGM with which he was to make his name.
Almost immediately, he met William Hanna. The two gelled instantly. It's said that they hardly exchanged a cross word in more than 60 years of working together. 
Success was not long in coming. 1940 saw the release of their first film, a cat and mouse caper entitled Puss Gets the Boot. Audiences and critics loved it, ensuring that this character combination would not be a one-off.
The characters evolved into Tom and Jerry, and their appeal has never dated.
By 1957, the cost of producing these cartoons had spiralled out of control and the studio was closed.
'Yabba dabba doo!'
The pair formed a new production studio, this time using less detail and movement, more stock footage, and fewer drawings.
While this style of cartoon production was criticised by animation-purists, Hanna-Barbera enjoyed almost instant success, making their fortune with the adult-friendly cartoon The Huckleberry Hound Show in 1958.
In 1960, a second mildly satirical series, The Flintstones, became the first cartoon to occupy a prime-time slot on American television. Prefiguring The Simpsons, it consistently ranked within the top 20 shows.
In 1962, they capitalised on the "yabba dabba doo" factor with the release of The Jetsons, a space-age version of The Flintstones. However, it was the combination of four school kids and their canine companion in the series, Scooby-Doo, that proved to be the duo's final enduring success.
In 1966, at the peak of the studio's popularity, with Hanna-Barbera cartoons attracting global audiences of more than 300 million, the two men sold their company to Taft Productions for a then staggering $25 million.
Despite this, Barbera remained active in the entertainment industry well into the 1990s. As recently as 1993, Barbera made his acting debut in the live action Flintstones feature film and a year later published his autobiography, My Life in Toons (Turner Publishing, 1994).
Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, who died in 2001, received no fewer than eight Emmys. The pair are remembered both on the Hollywood Walk and in the Television Academy Halls of Fame. 😳
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