Porky Pig Changes

[dougc]

As I recall, when Porky was first created, he was a stocky-built youngster, ("I Haven't Got A Hat," "The Blow Out" and "Old Glory" would be examples). In which cartoon was he first portrayed as an "adult," and, if not the same one, in which did he become the slenderer Porky we know today?
dougc

[Nelson]

It would have to be the 1936 cartoon, "GOLDIGGERS OF 49" with Beans

[J Lee]

As far as the "slender" Porky goes, he first went on a diet for one scene (probably animated by Chuck Jones) in Avery's "Picador Porky" in which he performs a magician's act with his matador's cape. Given the loose nature of WB animation at the time, the fact that Porky was way thinner in that scene than in the other in the cartoon isn't that unexpected.

Mel Blanc also did his first voicework in that cartoon, but not on the pig, but as one of Porky's drunken pals. The first cartoon with the fully slimmed-down Porky was Avery's next Looney Tune, "Porky's Duck Hunt," which was also the first cartoon in which Blanc did Porky's voice. And, oh yes, Tex also created Daffy Duck in that cartoon, making it one of the more important shorts in WB animation.

Jones and Bob Clampett went on to redesign Porky's facial features when they left Avery's unit went over to the Ub Iwerks' unit and then on their own later in 1937 into something closer to the design we know today (the Porky coming out of the drum to say "That's all, Folks!" at the end of the LTs debuted in Clampett's 1937 cartoon "Rover's Rival" but the face looks more like the Avery design than the one Clampett and Jones were using by then).

While Avery, Jones and Clampett trimmed the pig down in 1937, Frank Tashlin for some reason stubbornly stuck with his squat, fat Porky design for another year, until finally giving in when he made 1938's "Porky at the Crocadero." The last cartoon with the obese Porky was Tashlin's "Porky's Double Trouble," which BTW uses Trashlin's slimmer design for its theatrical lobby cards.

[dougc]

Porky was still a "kid" in "The Blow Out" (he wanted to earn money to buy an ice cream soda), which came out after "Golddiggers of '49," if I'm not mistaken. He was also a "kid" in "Old Glory," which I believe came out quite some time after that as well.
I guess my question is, when did Porky become an "adult" and stay an "adult?"
dougc

[J Lee]

OK, unless you want to count Porky being squashed into a diaper in "Baby Bottleneck," the last time he was portrayed as a child was in Clampett's "The Film Fan" which was released in December 1939.