popeye the sailor
December 6th 2006 @ 9:22 am cartoon, movie

popeye_face.jpg popeye, 8 episodes
the most famous music tune:

some episodes:
Private Eye Popeye
I Yam What I Yam
For Better or Worser
Bridge Ahoy
Gopher Spinach
Shuteye Popeye
Ancient Fistory
Big Bad Sindbad

Popeye the Sailor is a famous comic strip character, later featured in popular animated cartoons. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar(who would sign some of his early Popeye comic strips with a cigar because it sounded the same as his name) and first appeared in the King Features comic strip Thimble Theater on January 17, 1929. Popeye quickly became the main focus of the strip, which was one of King Features’ most popular strips during the 1930s. Thimble Theater, carried on after Segar’s 1938 death by artists such as Bud Sagendorf, was renamed Popeye in the 1970s. Today drawn by Hy Eisman, Popeye continues to appear in first-run strips in Sunday papers (daily Popeye strips are reruns of older strips). In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer’s Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theater 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 Popeye at one time rivaled Mickey Mouse for popularity among audiences. After Paramount assumed control of the Fleischer Studio in 1942, they continued producing the series until 1957. Future Popeye cartoons were produced for television from 1960 to 1962 by King Features, and from 1978 to 1982 as well as 1987 to 1988 by Hanna-Barbera Productions

Take a look at some pictures.

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links: Thimble theatre A bit of history Wikipedia Videos & a trivia contest!

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