Storyboard Reel: "Barking Dogs Don't Fite" (Patreon)

Hiya, chums!

We finally got Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Vol. 3 Blu-Ray from Warner Archive, and it's another slam dunk—although this is where the cartoons take a nosedive and they get their rather famous [heh] reputation for being unfailingly unfunny. 

We'll discuss this as planned in great detail in our episode later in October, but in the meantime, I thought it'd be cool to share this with all our patrons. It's a storyboard reconstruction I did for Barking Dogs Don't Fite, which is one of the cartoons on this collection. [Presented in standard-definition here to accommodate the scans.] This entire set of drawings by Jack Mercer and Carl Meyer was posted by the late, great Michael Sporn on his immensely important Splog that his widow Heidi still maintains in tribute, and I'm sure he'd be happy to see his hard work put to further use here.

Sadly, it's quite a mean-spirited, ugly cartoon (and still not the worst one on the disc!) that's only noteworthy for taking one of the all-time Fleischer classics, Protek the Weakerist, and sapping all the charm and comedy out of it. Still, the board proves it could've been funnier with a lighter touch and less belabored timing (again—discussed in our episode!), so for better or worser, please enjoy.

https://vimeo.com/361546892

pw: popeye

-Thad