Thomas Pynchon refers to the cartoon involving "Porky Pig and the anarchist" several times in his novels The Crying of Lot 49 (Vintage, 2000, p63) and Gravity's Rainbow.
Their oeuvre is blackly humorous with such topics as Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, an unrequited crush on Shirley MacLaine, and an ode to SF writer Harlan Ellison.
Lot | Lot-et-Garonne | The Crying of Lot 49 | Crying Nut | Lot (department) | Heavy Metal Parking Lot | Aiguillon, Lot-et-Garonne | LOT Polish Airlines | Lot of Leavin' Left to Do | The Crying Game | The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! | Sir Mix-a-Lot | Rap-A-Lot Records | parking lot | Martel, Lot | Lot's wife | Ferdinand Lot | Unofficial memorial: 25 years of People's Park. "Remove parking lot, put in a paradise" is an allusion to Joni Mitchell | Souillac, Lot | Sir Mix-a-lot | 'Salem's Lot | On the Lot | LOT Flight 7 | Lot (biblical person) | lot | Longueville, Lot-et-Garonne | Land lot | Crying in the Rain | We Care a Lot | The Woman Who Died a Lot |
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is probably the most famous and successful anti-romance, though there are many others, including Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, "Araby" by James Joyce and Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
The creators admit that one of the film's central plot points, about a cult operating as a postal service and corporate monopoly, is influenced and adapted from Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49.