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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.
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.
This
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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Bugs
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