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 No Love for Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny

Barks and Porky Pig - A strange thing indeed! Carl Barks drew only one Porky Pig story which also featured Bugs Bunny. He, however, did not like the characters. Most of faces of Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny were redrawn by other artists.

Porky Pig in Porky of the Mounties
This story appeared first in Four Color Comic #48 in July 1944. (24 pages)

Aside of Barney Bear, one Mickey Mouse tale, and as story writer for Droopy, this is the only other non-Disney story by Barks. Although the story is supposedly written by Chase Craig, it still 'feels' like a Barks' story. Many jokes fill the adventurous tale that is not like anything in the cartoons.
Bugs Bunny and FriendsThis final joke is one of Carl Barks' classics. It is strange that Barks could never have let his Ducks say what Bugs is saying in this final panel. His heroes (the Ducks) were no cowards like Bugs in this story and Barney Bear in some other stories. It appears as if Barks wanted in spite to create own characters for these two. Yet eventually he would never draw another of these stories for which he was very thankful. 
  Many other characters in the story which presumably were not redrawn look more Barksian then thse three. There is for example the bear which we find again in other Barks stories like "Christmas on Bear Mountain" (FC #178, 1947), and "Goldilock and the Three Bears" (WDC&S #110, 1949). This next charcter, the heroic mountie, is an authentic Barksian. Like all of his stoires, this one has the excellence that marks his work. The story never loses or gets entangled, it is not childish and yet it can be well read by both adults and kids. They will both enjoy it!
   Clearly the best story, this masterpiece is reprinted in Bugs Bunny and friends - A Comic Celebration. 158 pages filled with Warner Brother cartoon characters, featuring not only Bugs Bunny but also the Roadrunner.There is also another Disney comic artist in it: Look for Tony Strobl's "The Traveling Tree", a very funny Bugs Bunny story.
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