“Is Porky Pig, a cartoon, a movie ‘persona’? Of course he is. If Cary Grant is a ‘person’ in the movies, then so is Porky. Grant is an entity who appears only in the movies and doesn’t exist in real life. He was drawn up and created by a system that used Archibald Leach as its material. Porky Pig is similarly drawn up–it’s just that the raw material was pen and ink, not a guy from Bristol, England.”
Jeanine Basinger, The Star Machine
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