Popeye

Popeye the Sailor is a fictional sailor famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar, and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929.

Segar’s first Thimble Theatre strip was published on December 19, 1919. Shortly after Popeye’s introduction, the sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features’ most popular strips during the 1930s. Thimble Theatre was carried on after Segar’s death in 1938 by several writers and artists, including Segar’s assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip, now titled Popeye, continues to appear in first-run installments in Sunday papers, written and drawn by Hy Eisman.

In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer’s Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and the Fleischers - and later Paramount’s own Famous Studios - continued production through 1957.

Popeye TV shows include:

• Popeye the Sailor
• The All-New Popeye Hour (1978 – 1981)
• The Popeye and Olive Show (1981 – 1983)
• Popeye and Son (1987 – 1988)
• The Popeye Valentine’s Day Special (1979)
• Popeye (1980)
• Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy (2004)

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