DVD Review: Porky Pig 101
Today we take a look at a recent DVD release from Warner Archive looking back at a particular stuttering pig. This cartoon collection brings together all 99 Porky Pig black and white cartoons plus 2 color cartoons making this Porky Pig 101. Looney Tunes got started in 1930, but the Looney Tunes then was much different compared to what we know today. To compete with Mickey Mouse, Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising, who worked under Walt Disney, created this character named Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid and was the star of the earliest Looney Tunes cartoons. Other characters like Foxy and Piggy appeared, but Harman and Ising were given a better contract with MGM, and when they left, they took Bosko with them leaving Looney Tunes without a character. Now, with Leon Schlesinger as full producer of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, they had to come up with a character and fast. Buddy was the replacement character, but was a failure. In 1935, Friz Freleng d...