POPEYE THE SAILOR-a famous cartoon series since 1919.. Popeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous television shows. He is a middle-aged sailor with a unique way of speaking, one eye apparently missing, disproportionately muscular forearms with two anchor tattoos, thinning red hair, and an ever-present corncob pipe (which he toots like a steamships whistle at times). Popeyes comic and often supernatural adventures take him all over the world, and place him in conflict with enemies such as the Sea Hag and Bluto. His main base of operations is the fictional town of Sweethaven. Popeyes father is the degenerate Poopdeck Pappy, who does not share his sons moral righteousness. Popeyes sweetheart over the years is Olive Oyl. He is the adoptive father of SweePea, an infant foundling left on his doorstep. Popeye is ridiculously strong, but liable to be pummeled by the much larger Bluto before his eating of the spinach. History Popeye the Sailor was created by Elzie Crisler Segar, and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Although Segars Thimble Theatre strip, first published on December 19, 1919, was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, 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 Segars death in 1938 by several writers and artists, including Segars assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip, now titled Popeye, continues to appear in first-run installments in Sunday papers, written and drawn by Hy Eisman. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories. In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischers 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 Paramounts own Famous Studios—continued production through 1957. Since then, Popeye has appeared in comic books, television cartoons, arcade and video games, hundreds of advertisements and peripheral products, and including a 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman starring comedian Robin Williams as Popeye.
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