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As of 2024, Thimble Theatre comic strips from 1919 through 1928 have entered the public domain, concluding seventeen days before Popeye's first appearance. Even after the strips enter the public domain, trademarks regarding Popeye remain with King Features, as trademarks do not expire unless they cease to be used, and King Features has used the ...
- Popeye The Sailor
Popeye the Sailor is an American animated television series...
- E. C. Segar
Cartoonist. Notable works. Popeye (1929–1938) Elzie Crisler...
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Popeye is a 1982 platform game developed and released by...
- Popeye (Disambiguation)
Popeye is a comic and cartoon character: Popeye may also...
- J. Wellington Wimpy
J. Wellington Wimpy, generally referred to as Wimpy, is one...
- Gus Wickie
Wickie was the voice of Bluto in the Fleischer Studios'...
- Swee'Pea
Swee'Pea (alternatively spelled Swee'pea and Sweapea on some...
- Popeye Village
Popeye Village, also known as Sweethaven Village, is a...
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Stories created by Segar
1919 Thimble Theatre made its debut on Friday, December 19, 1919. It started out as a gag-a-day strip parodying theatrical films, where every installment started with a cast list, indicating which characters Olive Oyl and Ham Gravywere playing. 1920 The cast list format would be dropped after January 2, 1920 (just 13 strips total) but the gag-a-day format continued. Gradually, it was established that Olive and Ham were longtime, suffering girlfriend-and-boyfriend, in a comically dysfunctional...
Post-Segar stories
1938-1939 Sims and Winner did two complete adventures as a team and began a third, before Winner left in late 1939. 1938 1. 12/12/1938 - 03/25/1939 "Spinach Juice Springs" 1939 1. 03/27/1939 - 08/12/1939 "Homeward Bound" 2. 08/14/1939 - 02/10/1940 "The Rainbird" 1939-1954 Bela Zabolytook over the art duties in December, 1939, and completed "The Rainbird". The Sims/Zaboly team would maintain Segar's practice of developing longer adventures. 1940 1. 02/12/1940 - 04/20/1940 "The Roving Champion"...
Stories created by Segar
Sundays serialized their own stories in parallel to the daily strip, and also alternated these storylines with standalone gags. 1925-1928 Segar's Sunday pages began on January 25, 1925 as a series of unrelated multi-panel gag strips. While he eventually drew stories or related gags spanning several weeks, the longer adventures did not start until 1928. 1926 1. 10/24/1926 - 10/31/1926 (The mechanical woman) 1927 1. 02/20/1927 - 03/06/1927 (Cylinda the bum cook) 2. 07/24/1927 - 07/31/1927 (Ham...
Post-Segar stories
1938 1. 10/30/1938 - 11/13/1938 (Pappy's young sweetie) 1939 1. 01/22/1939 - 02/05/1939 (Wimpy's new trousers) 2. 03/19/1939 - 04/02/1939 (Wimpy's ventriloquism) 3. 04/30/1939 - 05/28/1939 (Popeye vs. a spinach-fed gorilla) 4. 07/02/1939 - 07/09/1939 (The woman who hated sailors) 5. 12/10/1939 - 12/17/1939 (Swee'Pea laughs at Wimpy) 2023 1. 01/01/2023 - 01/29/2023 "Ham and Dregs" In an effort to prove he is just as good as Popeye, Ham Gravy, accompanied by Castor Oyl, sets out to best Popeye'...
Popeye comic strips at Comics Kingdom (Dailies are Sagendorf reruns; Sundays by Randy Milholland; complete archive (including Hy Eisman-era Sunday strips) available via premium membership)Thimble Theatre comic strips at Comics Kingdom(Classic daily strips by Segar and later authors; complete archive available via premium membership)Cartoonist. Notable works. Popeye (1929–1938) Elzie Crisler Segar ( / ˈsiːɡɑːr /; [1] December 8, 1894 – October 13, 1938), known by the pen name E. C. Segar, was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Popeye, a pop culture character who first appeared in 1929 in Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre. [2] [3]
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- October 13, 1938 (aged 43), Santa Monica, California, U.S.
- Elzie Crisler Segar, December 8, 1894, Chester, Illinois, U.S.
- Popeye (1929–1938)
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Popeye (character) first appearance: January 17, 1929. First editor: King Features Syndicate. Background/Features: "The Thimble Theatre" was cartoonist E. C. Segar's third published strip when it first appeared in the New York Journal on December 19, 1919. Born as a drama-a-day, in a few months Segar changed the strip to a gag-a-day, easing out ...
Nov 30, 2018 · From its inception in January 1925, six years after the daily strip’s debut, the Sunday Thimble Theatre was a down-to-earth, rough-edged physical comedy, shot through with its creator’s school-of-hard-knocks philosophy. Segar’s is a violent world. Fisticuffs and domestic assaults abound in the strip and its topper, Sappo, which tells the ...
The comic strip was started in 1919 and revolved around the character Olive Oyl. After the addition of the popular character Popeye the title of the comic strip was changed to “Thimble Theater Featuring Popeye The Sailor.”. Read the Thimble Theater comic strip from December 21, 2020, and check out other Thimble Theater comics by Elzie ...
This article is about the franchise as a whole. For the character, see Popeye. For other meanings, see Popeye (disambiguation). Popeye the Sailor was created by E. C. Segar as a supporting character in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre, appearing on January 17, 1929. The character has since continued to appear in comics and animated cartoons, in the cinema as well as on ...
