Upon graduation, he worked as an office boy for the art department at a newspaper syndicate in Cleveland. Stein was known for his knowledge of photography, the automobile industry, and cartooning. He was born in New York and began his career as a photographer and illustrator at the World Telegram. The magazine noted the changes he made to the storylines. Previously the daily strip featured more conventional routines Popeye had with his cohorts, Olive Oyl, J.
But two weeks ago, the followers of the newspaper Thimble Theatre strip observed that the bucket-jawed blusterer was on the prowl again. Into her place stepped a cuddly blonde. These blondes were followed by several attractive females who were either damsels in distress, from royal lineage, sidekicks, or villainesses. Oyl into a beautiful woman!
However, both her transformation and appearances in the strip were short-lived. The pair also ventured into outer space! The bearded sailor usually had an attractive woman at his side.
Due to his appearances on television, Bluto was becoming popular with audiences. Stein revived the character, who made his return on March 27, 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. As in the final Fleischer cartoons and most Famous shorts, Popeye still wore his Navy uniform, an exception being the pilot episode "Barbecue for Two", where he did wear his original outfit. Unlike the previous show, this series had higher-quality animation and was more akin to Segar's work and Fleischer cartoons than other Popeye animations, with Popeye more regularly seen as an adventurous sailor.
Popeye's look was once again changed for this series, this time it was a permanent return to his classic outfit, however he still wore his Navy hat, making it something of a combination of both styles. The series also gave characters such as Alice the Goon more prominence, having her co-star with Olive in their own segment, Private Olive Oyl. This show focused more on adventure than past animations: there were entirely new segments dedicated to sailing the seas and searching for adventure, as in Popeye's Treasure Hunt.
Popeye and the Sea Hag's relationship was also more accurate to the strips than the previous series, with the Hag wanting to marry Popeye, much to the latter's disgust.
Oddly enough, Popeye's signature spinach can would have special effects on other characters, such as Olive and Swee'Pea, who would unusually turn into actual superheroes. In , a theatrical live-action movie called Popeye was released, featuring an original story written by Jules Pfeiffer, directed by Robert Altman , and serving as a more faithful adaptation to Segar's Thimble Theatre.
It brought almost every friend of Popeye's to the silver screen, although it showed the well-known sailor as whom Robin McLaurin Williams starred as having an initial aversion to spinach, and the setting took place in a port town called Sweethaven , created on the island of Malta by Altman's set decorators. Popeye was produced as a musical, with original songs whose music was composed and whose lyrics were written by Harry Nilsson; however, Sammy Lerner's familiar theme for the character, " I'm Popeye the Sailor Man ," was retained in the final sequence.
In , the latest animated series focusing on Popeye was produced, entitled Popeye and Son. The series was unique in the Popeye franchise for taking place later in Popeye's life, where he had finally married Olive Oyl, settled down and had a son of his own a notable change considering the rarity of having well-known cartoon characters actually move on with their lives. The series shared similarities with its predecessor, The All-New Popeye Hour , having various references to Thimble Theatre and other media in Popeye's history such as the theatrical film, with the cartoon taking place in Sweethaven.
However, the series didn't prove as popular as its predecessors and was eventually cancelled after 13 episodes. Being the last animated Popeye series on television, it can be considered somewhat fitting that it ended at a later and happier point in Popeye's life.
In , Popeye received a tribute show on Cartoon Network titled The Popeye Show , which only featured classic shorts but also adding trivia info and facts about Popeye as well as occasionally showing unaltered original versions of the shorts, with the series going on to have 45 episodes. An attempt at a full-fledged animated theatrical film was also made by Sony Pictures Animation for release in , with test animation made by Genndy Tartakovsky, yet production on this film has apparently remained on an indefinite hiatus.
In , IDW Publishing began a brand-new Popeye comic book that primarily stays faithful to the character's original comic strip incarnation by E. Segar and Bud Sagendorf, and features countless throwbacks and references to Popeye's old adventures and even features the return of many if not all of the characters from the classic era.
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. 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.
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