Well, they were based on real people. When Elzie Segar introduced Popeye in a 1929 comic strip, he drew his inspiration for the sailor from a character from his hometown of Chester, Illinois – a ...

Back in 1919, illustrator E.C. Seegar was asked to create a cartoon for the New York Journal. He titled it: Thimble Theatre. The lead characters were Olive Oyl, her brother Castor Oyl and Olive's ...

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CHESTER, Ill. -- Before Popeye the Sailor, Olive Oyl and Wimpy were the stars of a beloved comic strip, they walked the streets of this little town where their creator grew up. Popeye's real-life ...

Popeye is back and he's got his dancing shoes on. Wilco released their new music video for "Dawned On Me" Wednesday, and it features the muscled sailor in his first new hand-drawn cartoon in more than ...

If Popeye were still a pop-culture icon, the recent E. coli outbreak would do to his career what text-messaging congressional pages has done to someone else’s. Imagine, if you will, our hero Popeye ...

You might know Popeye the Sailor from trawling YouTube for clips of theatrical cartoons from between the 1930s and the 1950s. You might know him from the handful of television series' built around him ...

It’s spinach-picking season, and it occurred to me that for many Americans of my vintage, the most lasting childhood association with spinach may have nothing to do with the dinner table. I cannot ...

Popeye the Sailor, America’s favourite two-fisted sea dog, turns 90 this week. The archetypal old salt was created by Elzie Crisler Segar and made his first appearance in the cartoonist’s Thimble ...