When most people think of Popeye, we probably think about a hard-hitting sailor man fueled by a love for canned spinach. But the real inspiration for the rowdy animated mariner came from someone who ...

The first iteration of Popeye the Sailor, literary classics by Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock’s first sound film, and songs like “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Tiptoe Through the ...