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Overview

Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character

Character (arts)

A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

created by Elzie Crisler Segar

E. C. Segar

Elzie Crisler Segar was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of Popeye, a character who first appeared in 1929 in his comic strip Thimble Theatre. Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was "SEE-gar". He commonly signed his work simply Segar or E...

, who has appeared in comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

s and animated cartoon

Animated cartoon

An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot...

s in the cinema as well as on television. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Popeye has also become the strip's title in later years.

Although Segar's Thimble Theatre strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut in 1929, the sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s.

Unanswered Questions

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Quotations

"I yam what I yam and tha's all what I yam." -- Popeye the Sailor

"Well blow me down!" -- Popeye

"That's all I can stands, cuz I can't stands n'more!" - Popeye

"I'm strong to the finish, 'cause I eats me Spinach, I'm Popeye the sailor man! (toot, toot)" - Popeye (from theme song)

"I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." - J. Wellington Wimpy

"Let's you and him fight." - J. Wellington Wimpy

"Popeye, Popeye!" --Olive Oyl

"Help, Popeye! Save me!" (among other variations) --Olive Oyl

"You keep your hands to you, that's what you are!" --Olive Oyl

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