tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4917473912378530721.post5778449929847954164..comments2023-12-01T00:18:59.575-05:00Comments on Cartoons of 1939: 144 Porky The Giant KillerTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14783618617749580841noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4917473912378530721.post-36188504308837955482010-11-22T10:31:47.564-05:002010-11-22T10:31:47.564-05:00This cartoon is kind of a bookend to 1937's &q...This cartoon is kind of a bookend to 1937's "Porky's Super Service", in that it pits the title character against a really annoying kid the audience wants to see get it, but instead ends up with Porky taking the worst of the abuse by the iris out. No story credit on that earlier Ub Iwkers-directed cartoon, but Michael Barrier said the story was shipped to Iwerks' studio from the Schlessinger lot, so Hardaway might have had a hand in that one as well.<br /><br />Since Ben and Cal only had to do about one Looney Tune for every eight or so Clampett handled in 1939, they didn't burn out on the character and basically make Porky a fifth wheel in his own cartoon. But they probably could have used the extra drawing/layout practice on him, since his features for much of the short look squished onto his face (the next cartoon the unit would do, "You Ought to be In Pictures" under Freleng, had a much better looking Porky, meaning Dalton and/or Hardaway probably wanted their pig to look this way).J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.com