Max is too rushed to do a thorough job of drawing Ko-Ko this morning. Max is going fishing. However, to amuse the clown, he draws a fishing pole and a pond before he goes.
Although Paul Terry would produce seemingly dozens of cartoons set underseas, with vicious fish and fearsome octopuses, he was always constrained by his budgets and kept the drawings very simple. Between his technical inventions like rotoscoping and the fact that up to two-thirds of the Ko-ko cartoons were live films featuring him, Max Fleischer could budget more elaborate cartooning. His character designs were far more elaborate, his backgrounding was more detailed and his story logic was impeccable. At times, this cartoon suggests the work of Windsor McKay's Little Nemo: nowhere near as beautiful, but clearly aspiring to live up to standards.
Although Paul Terry would produce seemingly dozens of cartoons set underseas, with vicious fish and fearsome octopuses, he was always constrained by his budgets and kept the drawings very simple. Between his technical inventions like rotoscoping and the fact that up to two-thirds of the Ko-ko cartoons were live films featuring him, Max Fleischer could budget more elaborate cartooning. His character designs were far more elaborate, his backgrounding was more detailed and his story logic was impeccable. At times, this cartoon suggests the work of Windsor McKay's Little Nemo: nowhere near as beautiful, but clearly aspiring to live up to standards.