POPEYE!

sorry, i can't express that enough.

the strip continued for god knows how long (the 80s? the 90s?) and segar died in, i think, the mid 30s.

one of the great, sad stories of comics. segar started off brilliant and did amazing work right up until the lights went out. (in his early 30s, i think.) one of those, coulda been, shoulda beens.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560977795/ref=pd_rhf_p_1/102-5943680-4798536?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/al_copeland_dies_in_germany.html

The Popeyes craze was on, fueled by a popular jingle, "Love That Chicken From Popeyes," -- that Dr. John sang.

YSIMP3PLS?

cool drip graffiti
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4364/popeyevz.jpg

90 years old today!

hbd pop

though he should switch to fresh spinach, srsly who tf would eat canned spinach
(does it even exist anymore? i havent seen such a thing)

So, Popeye is seven years younger than Betty White (to the day).

though he should switch to fresh spinach, srsly who tf would eat canned spinach

iirc the comics never said he ate tinned spinach - mostly he just referred to it when asked about his indefatigability, or might occasionally be seen eating it off a plate

so blame Hollywood for lying to you and misrepresenting this hapless sailor and king (if idrc)

he has switched to frozen

http://www.emol.org/film/archives/popeye/images/1931SEGAR2.jpg

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dT1L_WKBAwk/WJmZfNTj_jI/AAAAAAAAIRw/GU6oudE8i7A5dp8ee3wQUThPd6RRUSftwCLcB/s1600/FirstVersions_Popeye_spinach1932-A.png

I don't know why this guy coloured his illustration like this

https://thecomicartwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-04-at-14.17.00.png

how are the thimble theater comic strips? was just thinking about wimpy today and how much i like the character design of popeye characters. i realized id never read any of the comics, know popeye (other than his general notoriety) primarily from the tv show "popeye and son".

one of the great works of art of the 20h century

― jess, Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:00 PM (nineteen years ago)

Top ten newspaper strips of all time. Number one at its peak.

(The first few years are merely great, but it's consistently firing on all cylinders by a few years before Popeye's debut. The last year or so get shaky as Segar's health wobbles and ghosts step in.)

cool. i think im going to be a popeye guy. this is my new thing

I am with sic on this

Popeye on tv was my god when I was five

thimble theater (love that name) is magnificent stuff, i can still open one of those books and just get lost for hours.

cool. i think im going to be a popeye guy. this is my new thing

nb that the third:

https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/popeye-lets-you-and-him-fight

fourth:

https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/popeye-plunder-island

and sixth:

https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/popeye-me-lil-sweepea

of the Popeye-era Thimble Theatre collections are still in print, and absurdly bargain-priced for the large-format hardcovers that they are. The other volumes might be found in small-town second-hand shops for similar costs, or online second-hand for 2-7x that price. But you can jump in with 3 and 4 and pick up who the characters are easily - it's written with the assumptions that readers are dropping in randomly every day.

The Fanta books are wonderful BUT I MUST WARN YOU that each of the six books has a capital letter "P" "O" "E" or "Y" on the spine which, when you but every book spells out POPEYE on the shelf. But if you are OCD and can neither afford/find/desire every volume, you are going to go nuts looking at PO or POPE or POPEY or god help us PPE.

^ Super glad I was able to snag them all before some of them went hopelessly out of print, if I'd wound up with nothing but PEE I would've chucked the lot in the street

Also, this b/w Fleischer DVD set is a treasure:

https://www.wbshop.com/products/popeye-the-sailor-1933-1938-vol-1-mod?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc_ouRnbXvAhVAF1kFHcI9ABwQgOUECBM

also the fanta books are too big for casual reading but would be kind of perfect to crack the spine get down on the floor and read with a nine year old oh god i meant to have a child by now how did i forget where did the years go was it spotify oh yes it was almost certainly spotify

...the playlist we've made along the way

looking fwd to having PEE on one of my bookshelves

send money for busfare and a hotel and I can speed that process up for you

great...revive?