Popeye a Sailor occurs as far-famed comic strip character, later featured around popular animated cartoons. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar and first appeared in the King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17 1929. Popeye is an independent sailor using the unique way of speaking, muscular forearms, & an ever-present corncob pipe. His unknown, humourous, & typically supernatural dangerous undertaking choose him a lot all over a world, & place him within conflict by owning enemies like the Sea Hag & King Zlobbo of Brutopia.

A storyline in the animated cartoons tended to become simpler. The villain, ordinarily Bluto (later renamed Brutus), makes the advance his "sweetie", Olive Oyl. A badness guy so clobbers Popeye until he eats spinach, which gives him superhuman strength.

Although Popeye is short, odd-shopping, belligerent, & has l1 one eye, numerous assume him the precursor to the superheroes who would at length are to dominate the world of comic books. Occasionally observers of popular culture point out that a fundamental character of Popeye, paralleling that of an additional Thirties icon, Superman, is very close to a traditional watch of how else Us understands itself as a united states: possessing inflexible moral standards & sole resorting to inflict once threatened, or even after he "can't stands no more" bad behavior from either an antagonist. This theory is directly reinforced around certain cartoons, once Popeye defeats his foe when an U.s. loyal song like "The Stars and Stripes Forever" plays on the soundtrack. Popeye as well expresses U.s. individualism. "I yam what I yam, and tha's all I yam."

Such has been Popeye's ethnic impact that a medical profession occasionally refer to the biceps bulge symptomatic of a tendon rupture as a "Popeye muscle" [http://www.aafp.org/afp/980215ap/fongemie.html] [http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?view_id=1&doc_id=3694] (notice but that Popeye has pronounced brachioradialis muscles of his forearms, rather than biceps).

The comic strip

Popeye number 1 appeared in January 17, 1929 as a minor character in Segar's newspaper cartoon strip Thimble Theatre, which got been going since 1919 by having protagonists Olive Oyl, her brother Castor Oyl, and young man Ham Gravy. the Popeye character became thus popular that he was given a big role. Olive one of these days left Ham Gravy to be Popeye's girlfriend, although she typically displayed a fickle attitude towards the sailor. Castor Oyl continued to are higher using develop-rich-test2 schemes, & for himself & Popeye included within mishap.

Within 1933, Popeye received a abandoned infant little ones in the mail, whom he adopted & known as "Swee'Pea". More regular characters in the strip were J. Wellington Wimpy, a moocher and hamburger lover who would "gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today", George W. Geezil, the local cobbler world health organization speaks inside the heavy affected accent & habitually attempted to execution or even wish dying upon Wimpy, Poopdeck Pappy, Popeye's belligerent & woman-hating father, & Eugene the Landrover, a yellow pooch from either Africa with magical powers.

Segar's strip was quite different from either a cartoons that followed. A stories were additional complex, by having numerous characters world health organization never appeared in the cartoons (King Blozo for instance). Spinach usage was uncommon & Bluto mass produced single of these appearance. A original newspaper strips were collected & published within multiple volumes by Fantagraphics.

Wimpish's title was late borrowed for the Wimpy restaurant chain, one of the number one international fast food restaurants featuring hamburgers, which they call for Wimpy Burgers. [http://www.wimpyburgers.co.uk/]

A strip is too responsible popularising, although non inventing, a word 'goon' (meaning a toughie or even lackey).

Popeye & more characters from either a strip appeared around numbers of Tijuana Bibles, unauthorized course.

Fallowing Segar's demise inside 1938, many different creative person were hired to draw a strip, a virtually all luminary existence Bud Sagendorf beginning in 1958. He wrote & drew a daily strip until 1986 and the Sunday strip until his death around 1994. From either 1986 to 1992, the every day strip was written & drawn by Bobby London, who when the few disputation was fired from either a strip, for a story that can be taken to satirize abortion. Since so a daily strip has been reprints of older Sagendorf strips, and a Sunday strip was taken over by Hy Eisman in 1994. Acknowledging Popeye's growing popularity, a strip wwhen billed as Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye when you took a 1960s and 1970s, and in time was titled only Popeye.

The sailor in the media

Theatrical cartoons

Fleischer Studios

Thimble Theatre was adapted into an animated cartoon series originally produced for Paramount Pictures by Fleischer Studios, run by brothers Max Fleischer (producer) and Dave Fleischer (director) in 1933. Popeye mass produced his film debut around Popeye a Sailor, the 1933 Betty Boop cartoon (Betty only makes the brief appearance). It was for this short that Sammy Kerner's illustrious "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" song was written. We Yam What We Yam became a 1st entry in the regular Popeye a Sailor series.

When a single shrewd cartoon historiographer has ascertained, a song itself was elysian per number one both lines of the "Pirate King" song around Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, The Pirates of Penzance: "For I am a Pirate King! (Hoorah for the Pirate King!)" A tune behind victims deuce lines is monovular to the "Popeye" song except for the high note on the number one "King".

A character of Popeye was originally voiced by William "Billy" Costello (Red Pepper Sam). Whilst Costello's behavior became the condition, he was replaced by previous within-middle animator Jack Mercer, beginning with King of the Mardi Gras in 1935. Olive Oyl was voiced by a total of actresses, however by far the virtually all notability was Mae Questel, who likewise voiced Betty Boop. Questel one of these days took all over a a share entirely till 1938. Various actors provided a voice of Bluto, including Gus Wickie, William Pennell, and Pinto Colvig. More characters from either a strip would pop up briefly in a shorts, including Poopdeck Pappy, Eugene the Landrover, George W. Geezil, & a Goons.

Thanks to the series, Popeye became potentially extrthe of a sensation. When you took a mid-1930s, theater creator polls proved Popeye extra popular than Mickey Mouse. A series was noted for its urban sense (a Fleischers operated away from New York City), its manageable variations in its elementary theme (Popeye loses Olive to bully Bluto & must eat his spinach & kill him), & a characters' "under-the-breath" mutterings (which began when ad-libs by Mercer, world health organization muttered then that his additions would non vary a timing of the completed animation). A voices for pre-1940 Fleischer cartoons were recorded after a animation was completed, then a actors, Mercer particularly, would improvise lines that were non on the storyboards or even prepared for the lip-sync.

Fleischer Studios produced 108 Popeye cartoons; 105 of the children were produced around black & white. A unexpended trine were both-reel (double-length) Technicolor specials billed as "Popeye Color Features": Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, ''Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, and Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp. a total one cartoons own entered the public domain, their copyright having expired. These may be downloaded from either a Internet Archive.

A Fleischers moved their studio to Miami, Florida in 1938 to weaken union control & choose benefit of tax benefit. A Popeye series continued production, although the marked vary was seen in the Florida-produced shorts: it were brilliantly & less elaborated in their graphics, by using tries to bring the character animation nigher to a Disney style. Mae Questel refused to move to Florida, & Margie Hines, the married woman of Jack Mercer, voiced Olive Oyl through the prevent of 1943.

Around 1941, with World War II becoming other & more of an issue inside America, Popeye was (re-)enlisted into the U.S. Navy, as depicted in the 1941 short The Mighty Navy. His costume was changed from either a melanize shirt & red neckerchief to an official white Navy lawlawsuit, & Popeye cotinued to put on a Navy suit inside animated cartoons until a 1960s. Popeye sporadically bore his original costume while home in shore leave, when in the 1942 entry Pip-Eye, Pup-Eye, Poop-Eye, An' Peep-Eye, which introduced his quaternary monovular nephews.

Famous Studios
Fleischer Studios was dissolved inside early 1942, when Max & Dave were two forced to resign from either a company. Paramount purchased a studio & renamed it Famous Studios. Appointing Seymour Knietel and Isadore Sparber as its heads, production was continued on the shorts. A early Famous-era shorts were typically World War II propaganda, featuring Popeye fighting Nazis and Japanese soldiers.

Inside late 1943, the Popeye series was moved to everthing-Technicolor production, beginning with Her Honor a Mare. Paramount moved a studio back to Up to date York at this instance, & Mae Questel re-assumed voice duties for Olive Oyl. Jack Mercer wwhen drafted into a Navy in a period of Globe War II, &, while he wwhen unavailable to record his dialogue, Mae Questel fill in as the voice of Popeye, additionally to her role as Olive Oyl. Jackson Beck voiced Bluto in the color Famed shorts, which began to adhere possibly nigher to the standard Popeye formula.

Famous/Paramount continued producing a Popeye series until 1957, with Spooky Swabs existence a final of the 125 Notable shorts in the series. Paramount so sold a Popeye film backlog to Associated Artists Productions (AAP). AAP was bought out by United Artists (UA), which later merged by owning Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), itself purchased by Turner Entertainment in 1986. Turner sold off a production prevent of MGM/UA around 1988, but retained a film catalog, yielding it a rights to the theatrical Popeye library. A black-&-white Popeye'' shorts were shipped to Korea in 1988, where creative person retraced the children into color. A run manufactured a shorts extra marketable in the modern television era, but prevented a viewers from either seeing a original Fleischer pen-&-ink act, also when a 3-cubic backgrounds created by Fleischer's "Tabletop" run. Turner merged by owning Time Warner in 1997, and Warner Bros. (through its Turner subsidiary) so controls a rights to the Popeye shorts to this day.

For numbers of decades, viewers may single watch the majority of the classic Popeye cartoons by owning a altered opening & closing credits (AAP experienced, mostly, replaced a original Paramount logotype by having their have, & so destroying a impact of their original theatrical presentation). However around 2001, a Cartoon Network (under the superintendence of animation archivist Jerry Beck) created the recently incarnation of "The Popeye Show" which aired, first since their original theatrical releases, a Fleischer & Famous Studios shorts in their original unchanged form (complete by owning their original front & prevent Paramount credits). Never again were any scenes bearing a mark of a television syndicator (Associated Artists Productions) by using the original footage restored to every film seen on the 45 episode series. 1 hundred & thirty 5 "Popeye" cartoons were restored & a program aired forgoing interruption until March of 2004.

These come these restored shorts that are okay, making their way into revival film houses for occasional festival screenings.

A Fleischer & Famous Studios films, heretofore, develop non got an official DVD or even streaming video release. United Artists (under a previous MGM/UA management) experienced planned a streaming cd release within 1983 however were informed by King Features Syndicate that it & merely it got the legal best to release Popeye cartoons in video. United Artists did non challenge King Features' claim, & the release never happened. When King Features owns a rights to the Popeye characters, it has never owned any a portion of the Fleischer/Famous cartoons. King licensed a rights to Paramount Pictures to apply a images of Popeye & his crew in the theatrical cartoons, however did non locate ownership of the films. This is how come King Features produced a 220 Popeye TV-cartoons inside 1960-61, then it stand the successful Popeye cartoon series completely their have.

Warner Bros./Turner Amusement nowadays owns the cartoons & has been talking to King Features just about a imaginable release. Meanwhile, a few Popeye cartoons from either a Paramount era at present in the public domain have made their way into many unofficial VHS & DVD cartoon compilations. Among these cartoons come the handful of the Fleischer black-&-white, many early-1950s Famed shorts, and everthing 3 Popeye Color Specials.

Television cartoons

Within 1960, King Features Syndicate commissioned a freshly series of Popeye cartoons, however this period for television syndication. Mercer, Questel & Beck returned for this series, which was by the total of corporations, including Jack Kinney Studios, Rembrandt Studios, & Paramount Cartoon Studios (erst Famous Studios). A nontextual matter was streamlined & simplified for a television budgets, & 220 cartoons were produced around single ii years, by having the number 1 placed of the two premiering in the fall of 1961.

For these cartoons, Bluto's title was changed to "Brutus", when it was believed at a period that Paramount owned a rights to the title "Bluto". [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpopeye.html] In numbers of Popeye fan web sites, Brutus & Bluto come 2 distinct humans. Bluto existence the sailor great deal prefer Popeye & Brutus existence the frowzled, away from shape civilian.

A Sixties cartoons come a single Popeye cartoons to develop eventually been given an official streaming video release, & use been issued in two VHS & DVD.

In September 9, 1978, The A lot-Just released Popeye Hour debuted on the CBS Saturday morning lineup. It was an hour-long alive series by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which tried its best to locate a style of a original comic strip (Popeye returned to his original costume & Brutus to his original title of Bluto), when complying sustaining the prevailing contented restrictions in violence. A Tons-Just released Popeye Hour ran in CBS until September 1981, when it was cut to the half-30 minutes & retitled A Popeye & Olive Indicate. It was flushed from either a CBS lineup within September 1983. These cartoons keep close at h& too been freed in VHS and DVD. When you took a instance these cartoons were within production, CBS aired ''A Popeye Valentine's Day Favorite - Sweethearts baffled in February 14 (appropriately), 1979.

Popeye briefly returned to CBS around 1987 for Popeye and Boy'', an additional Hanna-Barbera series which featured Popeye and Olive as the married few by owning a boy known as Popeye Jr., world health organization hates spinach. Maurice LaMarche performed Popeye's voice; Jack Mercer had died around 1984. A indicate lasted for a single year.

Other media

There develop been the total of Popeye comedian books, from either Dell & other publishers, including the comedian book where Popeye and Olive Oil marry.

Popeye & virtually all of a major supporting cast members were likewise featured around the thrice-weekly Fifteen-microscopic radio program known as "Popeye the Sailor". It was sponsored per maker of Wheetena, a whole wheat grain breakfast cereal, which would routinely replenish a spinach information. A indicate was broadcast in Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays at 7:15 - 7:30 pm in WABC, and ran from either August 31, 1936 to February 26, 1937, 78 episodes in all.

Director Robert Altman used the character inside Popeye, a 1980 live-action musical feature film starring Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl, with songs confined by Harry Nilsson. A script was by Jules Fiffer, a large fan of the original strips. Numerous of the characters created by Segar appeared in the film, the co-production of Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions.

Nintendo created a Popeye video game based on the characters in 1982. A game was originally freed as an arcade game & was fairly popular. It wwhen later on ported to the Commodore 64 house computer too as various house game consoles (Intellivision, NES, Atari 2600, ColecoVision, & Odyssey²). A goal was to stay away from Bluto & a Sea Hag when collecting hearts, note, or even letters (based on the level). Punching the spinach may gave Popeye the brief risk to retaliate at Bluto. More characters like Wimpy & Swee' Pea appeared in the game, however did non affect gameplay.

Around 2004, Lions Gate Films produced a computer-animated television special, ''Popeye's Voyage: A Quest after Pappy'', which was mass produced to coincide by using a 75th day of remembrance of Popeye. Billy West performed a voice of Popeye; when the number one day of recording, his voice was therefore sore he got to go to to his hotel room & swallow honey. A uncut versiin was freed in DVD on November 9, 2004; and was airy inside the re-emended versiin on FOX on December 17, 2004. Its style was influenced per 1930s Fleischer cartoons, and featured Swee'Pea, Wimpy, Bluto, Olive Oyl, Poopdeck Pappy, & A Sea Hag when its characters.

Spinach
the information to spinach comes from either the publication of a survey which, because of a typographical error, attributed to spinach decade days its actual iron content. Withal, a popularity of the character helped boost sales of the vegetable and the spinach-growing community of Crystal City, Texas erected a statue of the character within gratitude. There exists a second Popeye statue within Segar's hometown, Chester, Illinois.

A 1954 Popeye cartoon Greek Mirthology depicts a fancied originside of spinach consumption in Popeye's personal. Popeye's Roman ancestor, Hercules, originally sniffed garlic to gain his supernatural powers. Once a evil Brutus removes a scent of the garlic applying chloroform (an obvious incongruousness), Hercules terminates higher having punched into a spinach field, &, upon eating the leafy green substance, finds it empowers him numerous days to a higher degree garlic.

It has as well been claimed that a "spinach" Popeye utilized was the information to marijuana. Spinach was a slang for marijuana at the instance of Popeye's creation, & it was believed by occasionally that marijuana can give users superhuman nature and severity.

Presently Popeye Clean Nutrients markets bagged new spinach sustaining Popeye characters on the pack, & Allens Canning markets Popeye-branded canned spinach.

Marketing and tie-ins

Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits, a U.S. fast food restaurant chain, is not known as when Popeye a sailor, however like fallowing a character "Popeye" Doyle from either a 1971 film The French Connection — world health organization was in turn known as fallowing very detective Eddie Egan who was known as "pop eye" because of his lament experimental skills. A chain would in a future license the cartoon characters for utilise when a promotional thing, inducing a bit of confusion as to the source of the title. Recently, Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits has omitted a utilise of "Popeye the Sailor" inside promotions; the single understanding given was a difficulty of profits marketing their food using a sailor character.

Withwithin 1991, the favorite series of short Popeye comedian books were involved in specially marked boxes of instant Quaker Oatmeal. a plots were similar to people of the films - Popeye loses either Olive Oyl or even Sweet Pea to a musclebound antagonist, grub something invigorating, & payoff to save the day. Therein pack, still, a invigorating elixir was non his common spinach, however, like, one of little joe flavors of Quaker Oatmeal. (A different flavor was showcased using apiece mini comedian) The catchphrase, "Can the spinach! I wants me instant Quaker Oatmeal!" apparently failing to catch in by using a general public, & a promotional campaign remains little-known.

Around 1995, a strip was one of Twenty involved in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative America postage stamps.

from either either early, Popeye was heavy merchandised - all about from detergent to razor blades to spinach was available by owning Popeye's likeness on that. Virtually all one things come uncommon & sought-fallowing by collectors, however a select few product is however existence produced - for instance Mezco Toys makes classic-style Popeye figures inside 2 sizes & KellyToys garden truck lucullan stuffed Popeye characters.

Reprints
Popeye a Sailor, Nostalgia Press, 1971, reprints 3 day-after-day stories from either 1936. Thimble Theatre, Hyperion Press, 1977, ISBN 0-88355-663-4, reprints day-after-day from either September 10 1928 missing 11 dailies which are then involved in the Fantagraphics reprints. A Complete E. C. Segar Popeye, Fantagraphics, 1980s, reprints altogether Segar Sundays featuring Popeye around Tetrad volumes, all Segar dailies featuring Popeye within Vii volumes, missing Quaternion dailies which are then involved in the Hyperion reprint, November 20-November 22 1928, August 22 1929. Popeye, a 1st fifty Years by Bud Sagendorf, Workman Publishing, 1979 ISBN 0-89480-066-3, a just Popeye reprint fully color.

Characters in Popeye comics/cartoons

'''Thimble Theatre characters''' Olive Oyl Castor Oyl (Olive Oyl's brother) Cole Oyl (Olive Oyl's father) Nana Oyl (Olive Oyl's mother) - The play on the slang expression "Banana Oil" Ham Gravy (Olive Oyl's original young man) Popeye a Sailor The Sea Hag Bernard (Sea Hag's Vulture) J. Wellington Wimpy George W. Geezil (a local cobbler who hates Wimpy) Rough Home (A cook world health organization diarrhethe a local eating Home, The Rough House) Swee' Pea (Popeye's "adopted" binky user boy in the comedian, Olive's cousin-german in the cartoons) King Blozo Toar Goons, Specifically Alice a Goon Poopdeck Pappy (Popeye's 99-month-old long-misused father, likewise the sailor) Eugene the Jeep Oscar Brutus (known as when a authoritative Brutus; an adaptation of the animated Bluto character) Dufus Granny Bernice O. G. Watasnozzle (appeared inside an episode "Popeye and Son")

'''Popeye cartoon characters''' Bluto Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye, Peepeye (Popeye's monovular nephews) Shorty (Popeye's shipmate when you took the World War II period)