Being the skeptics that we are, we decided to spend a little time searching Google to see what we could dig up. Again, the songs were all linked to YouTube. Until we uncovered this — an article published on the website wearethemighty.
Many years ago I saw a book about Popeye that was written by Bud Sagendorf, who took over comic books and strip art after Mr Segar died. It had a photo of the real man who inspired Segar, and bless him he was even uglier than the guy in the photo. Hope this helps. Thank you. Hi Steve, Popeye is certainly an interesting legend. I guess it will always remain a mystery!
Notify me via e-mail if anyone answers my comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This is the photo that has been circulating on Facebook. He was portrayed as the criminal leader of a gang of pirates. Popeye lost two of his three shirt buttons. Poopdeck Pappy shrank in height and was without his pipe. Happy 90th birthday, Popeye! Bluto or Brutus? In the daily strip from June 17, , Popeye and Pommy are in a dungeon chained to a wall.
Tom Sims often had Popeye eat spinach during his tenure writing the strip. Sagendorf was producing the Popeye comic book series. Both Stein and Zaboly remained involved with the arts after Thimble Theatre.
But for nearly five years, Popeye certainly had a wandering one-eye! Entertainment historian Fred Grandinetti has been writing about Popeye since in numerous magazines, newspapers, and websites. Grandinetti also produces the award-winning cable access series, Drawing with Fred , for Massachusetts cable-access television.
Who's Funny? Cartoon Caption Contest. Grandinetti May 7th, Ralph Stein ad. Popeye encounters a beautiful Princess in his first adventure written by Ralph Stein.
From April 1, Wholesome women along with shapley, darkly dressed villainesses encountred Popeye! From November, 14, Due to his appearances on television, Bluto was becoming popular with audiences. As the series is more faithful to Segar and Sagendorf's work, the plots of each issue follow more closely to the original format of the older comics rather than the cartoons, and the art even replicates Segar's style flawlessly.
In , IDW held a special crossover event where they depicted many of the settings in their comics as being invaded by the Martians from the trading card game and film Mars Attacks , with Popeye facing off against this incarnation of the Martians in the special Mars Attacks Popeye.
Popeye's unique and commonly used design is one that is immediately recognizable, being always depicted as a gruff-looking yet skinny sailor with a large cleft chin, a single eye, a mostly bald head and very large forearms with anchor tattoos, while his outfit normally consists of a black dress shirt with a red neckline and sleeves with blue edges along with blue pants, brown shoes and a sailor's cap.
During his first introduction in Thimble Theatre , Popeye's appearance was not too different from his current one, the only difference being that his nose was noticeably larger, his chin was slimmer and his forearms were less round and more angular and also a bit hairy , but as Segar's talent continued to grow, the design would change to match the well known sailor seen today. This design would be his most iconic and most used depiction used in many media, and most notably the first piece of Popeye animated media by Fleischer Studios.
Following the attack of Pearl Harbor in by the Japanese which made the US take part in World War II, Popeye's design remained unchanged, however, in the cartoons he was now made a member of the U.
Navy and given the appropriate naval attire, consisting of the standard white uniform with a black neckerchief, black shoes and a small Navy cap. He would continue to wear this outfit until the mids. During his Famous Studios run, Popeye's eyes were also slightly enlarged to look a bit more realistic rather than looking like black dots, and he was also portrayed as having two eyes in both Famous Studios and the 60s television series, which would occasionally be seen in several shorts.
When Bud Sagendorf began the Popeye comics in , Popeye's design was changed to resemble his classic look but while still wearing his Navy cap from the war. His eyes were also changed back to their black dot appearance. His chin was also further enlarged with only a few minor changes due to Sagendorf's own unique art style.
This design would continue to be used by Sagendorf's successors in Popeye comics, such as George Wildman , Bobby London and several others throughout the 70s, 80s and future newspaper comic strips depending on the artist, with Segar and Sagendorf's designs usually being interchanged. Since the end of Popeye and Son, media and merchandise outside the occasional comics would continue to portray Popeye with his classic look or his Sagendorf design regularly, and only rarely using his Navy look.
Popeye's appearance is always the most difficult for cartoonists to duplicate because, as Sagendorf once pointed out, there is nothing normal about it. Sagendorf went on to admit that after approximately a year of attempting to do so as Segar's apprentice, he had to ask Segar to draw the character for him; he explained, "It turned out that if you didn't draw the eyebrows and eyes first, the nose second, the head third and the chin last, you were dead.
Popeye is a rough and tough sailor with a heart of gold who always does what he can for others and always doing what he thinks is best. He is brave and compassionate, as he will not back down against any foe and give them all he has got, but his compassionate nature makes it so he always tries to "defends the weakerist", as he cannot stand seeing the weak and helpless get abused.
He also has a fondness for "poor dumb aminals" and, similarly, cannot stand to see any animal being hurt for no reason. But he also has no patience for violent beasts who attack defenseless people or other animals for no justifiable reason, and he will be quick to turn them into mincemeat for their hotheadedness. Being a sailor, he has a love for adventure and the sea, and will not pass up the chance to find new mysteries, lost treasures and grand adventures.
While he is usually a treasure hunter of sorts, he is not greedy and always does his best to share with others and encourage others to do the same. Popeye has a dislike for things like monsters, ghosts and other such terrors, having faced several himself in his life time and would even pretend they do not exist, as seeing them terrifies him greatly, but he always manages to muster the courage to face off against any foe.
Popeye's favorite food is spinach , and he always tries to encourage others to eat this healthy vegetable as it is a great source of "strenkth and vitaliky. Popeye was born the son of Poopdeck Pappy and an unnamed woman in a typhoon in Santa Monica with Popeye erroneously claiming to have been born at 2 or 3 years of age. Shortly after his birth, his father Poopdeck left home and was never seen again, and his mother's fate was unknown, leaving the young Popeye an "orphink" to be raised by an orphanage keeper who gave him the ID number of , As an infant, Popeye already had his signature pipe , presumably given to him by his father before leaving, and would only take it out of his mouth for his morning bottles of malted hardtack.
As far as he could remember, little Popeye was impressed by early home training and exercised as soon as he was able, but avoided getting into serious fights until he was 4 years of age, where he had finally had enough of his orphanage keeper and let him have it.
After this incident, it seemed as though Popeye's keeper became impressed with the child and decided to enter him in contests similar to dog shows where the young Popeye became a prize baby in many shows and always took great pride in his Bertillon measurements. Eventually, the orphan Popeye would fall on hard times upon leaving the orphanage, and was forced to wear flour sacks for clothes, but happily, the luckless lad was taken in by Whaler Joe at the docks, who even bought the young lad a new pipe and a fascinating straw hat with a radio antenna on it.
At six years of age, Popeye began to fulfill his promise of taking his exercising more seriously and started devoting himself to fights with the local bullies, easily laying his foes among the geranium flowerbeds, always promising to do so and never breaking his word. With Popeye around, the local bullies did not need the aid of any pliers or doorknobs to get rid of those useless bicuspids thanks to Popeye's left-right to the jaw.
As Popeye's notoriety grew among the children, he inadvertently became a factor for good in discouraging his fellow rough-dock kids from crapshooting, doing so by being too good at the game himself, as he always got 18 straight passes when he rolled the dice.
Despite his love of crapshooting, Popeye would be forced to sell his beloved dice for the lead in them after his guardian Whaler Joe fell on tough times. One day, Popeye set out on a boat with nothing but a bent pin and a spool of thread in hopes of helping his guardian by catching whales for him. Unfortunately, upon reaching the whale pod, Popeye realized he was grievously ill-prepared against the giant sea beasts who thrashed about his little vessel as they let out a loud horselaugh, which made Popeye respond with a quick tempered "Blow me down, you-!
It was then that the largest whale, deeply offended, got on little Popeye's vessel and sprayed him with a mighty jet of water. This action infuriated the young Popeye so heavily that his anger became pure strength; he quickly got back on his feet and punched whale with all his might, instantly killing the proud alpha and proceeded to take on the rest of the pod.
A triumphant little Popeye then returned home with a nice string of whales for Whaler Joe that night. Upon reaching the age of 12, Popeye had startled everyone he knew by the sheer fact that he was now like a full-grown man, puberty having hit him hard as he now had to shave after every meal and he even had muscles so tough that they could be used as grindstones, with Popeye even renting out his forearms for just that purpose for some extra side cash.
It was around this time that Popeye finally but unknowingly set out to sea, having been shanghaied onto a crew one night after some bilge rat put a mickey in his "sodie pop" to knock him out. After he woke, he found himself aboard the Josie Lee with a new crew bossing him around, so he decided to slip a "mickey" himself to everyone in the crew with his fists, including the captain.
It was then that the Josie Lee began to drift out to sea and after a few days, Popeye realized that he liked this style of living and would go on to devote his life to that of the sailor 's way, deciding to join the crew of the Josie Lee and begin practicing his "sailor's walk" from then on. Popeye then dedicated himself to sailing the seas, looking for fights and new adventure, as well as any clue to the whereabouts of his long-lost Pappy. As the twelve-year old Popeye set off on his first voyage, he would end up losing the vision of his right eye in "the mos' arful battle" of his life.
One fateful night, Popeye had just finished shooting craps with his five mates, who laid beaten on the deck of the Josie Lee with all their money on Popeye's side. It was then that the monstrous and bloodthirsty cook of the ship, an evil, beast-like man simply known as " The Ape ," stepped forth, having had enough of Popeye's winning streak.
Popeye knew a fight was inevitable and shouted out a "Blow me down! However, the naive young boy who always kept his promises no matter what realized that there was not a single flowerbed of "swee'peas" in sight, with the exception of a bed of sunflowers on the ship. The flustered Popeye kept looking around the boat with his good peepers for any sign of a flowerbed to keep his word on, but before he knew it, "The Ape" pounced on the unsuspecting rookie sailor and a fierce onslaught ensued with The Ape showing no mercy and laying down a gruesome punishment on the sailor, with Popeye never being able to see another flowerbed with that one peeper of his again.
Since then, those at sea would refer to him as "Pop-Eye", after his busted eye.
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