Elzie Crisler Segar

Castor Oyl is a cartoon character, created in 1919 by cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar for his comic strip Thimble Theater, now known as Popeye. Castor Oyl is Olive Oyl's brother. He was the main protagonist of Thimble Theater for years before the first appearance of the Popeye character in January 1929. A quick-witted yet diminutive adventurer, Castor Oyl continued to be an important character in Segar's Popeye strip, but played little (most usually no) role in the Popeye theatrical cartoons produced ...

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1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1929 - Events. 1929 - January. January 2 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls. January 9 - The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee). January 10 - Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be publishe ...

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Notable cartoonists include: Pete Abrams, Sluggy Freelance Charles Addams, macabre cartoons featured in The New Yorker and elsewhere Murray Ball, Footrot Flats Darrin Bell, Candorville and Rudy Park Oscar Berger, Aesop's Foibles (1947); active 1920s - 1960s Ed Brubaker Max Cannon, Red Meat Contemporary American Chester Commodore, African American political cartoonist Robert Crumb, Mr. Natural, Fritz ...

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Popeye - Theatrical cartoons. 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 made his film debut in Popeye the Sailor, a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon (Betty only makes a brief appearance). It was for this short that Sammy Lerner's famous "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" song was written. I Yam What I Yam became the first ent ...

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Popeye, Popeye - The comic strip, Popeye - Artists after Segar, Popeye - The sailor in the media, Popeye - Theatrical cartoons, Popeye - Television cartoons, Popeye - Other media, Popeye - Spinach, Popeye - Marketing and tie-ins, Popeye - Reprints, Popeye - Characters in Popeye comics/cartoons, Popeye - Thimble Theatre characters, Popeye - Popeye cartoon characters

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1929 - January. January 2 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls. January 9 - The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee). January 10 - Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages, and loved across the world. January 15 - First issue of Annales d'histoire écono ...

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The reference to spinach comes from the publication of a study which, because of a misprint, attributed to spinach ten times its actual iron content. Nevertheless, the 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 in gratitude. There is another Popeye statue in Segar's hometown, Chester, Illinois. The 1954 Popeye cartoon "Greek Mirthology" depicts the fictional origin of spinach consumption in Popeye's family. Popeye's R ...

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Popeye, Popeye - The comic strip, Popeye - Artists after Segar, Popeye - The sailor in the media, Popeye - Theatrical cartoons, Popeye - Television cartoons, Popeye - Other media, Popeye - Spinach, Popeye - Marketing and tie-ins, Popeye - Reprints, Popeye - Characters in Popeye comics/cartoons, Popeye - Thimble Theatre characters, Popeye - Popeye cartoon characters

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Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits, a U.S. fast food restaurant chain, is not named after Popeye the sailor, but rather after the character "Popeye" Doyle from the 1971 film The French Connection, who was in turn named after real police detective Eddie Egan who was called "Pop eye" because of his keen observational skills. The restaurant chain would later obtain a license for the cartoon characters for use as a promotional tool, causing some confusion as to the source of the name. Recently, Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits has omitted the use of "Popeye the Sailor" in promotions; one reason given was the difficulty of effective ...

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Popeye first appeared on January 17, 1929 as a minor character in Segar's newspaper cartoon strip Thimble Theatre, which had been running since 1919 with protagonists Olive Oyl, her brother Castor Oyl, and her boyfriend, Ham Gravy. The Popeye character became so popular that he was given a larger role. Olive eventually left Ham Gravy to become Popeye's girlfriend, although she often displayed a fickle attitude towards the sailor. Castor Oyl continued to come up with get-rich-quick schemes, ...

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Popeye, Popeye - The comic strip, Popeye - Artists after Segar, Popeye - The sailor in the media, Popeye - Theatrical cartoons, Popeye - Television cartoons, Popeye - Other media, Popeye - Spinach, Popeye - Marketing and tie-ins, Popeye - Reprints, Popeye - Characters in Popeye comics/cartoons, Popeye - Thimble Theatre characters, Popeye - Popeye cartoon characters

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1929 - January-March. January 3 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989) January 4 - Dr. Thomas Lincoln, American Informatics Pioneer January 6 - Babrak Karmal, third President of Afghanistan (d. 1996) January 15 - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968) January 17 - Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (d. 1986) January 20 - Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964) January 2 ...

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After Segar's death in 1938, many different artists were hired to draw the strip, the most notable being Bud Sagendorf beginning in 1958. He wrote and drew the daily strip until 1986 and the Sunday strip until his death in 1994. Sagendorf, who had been Segar's assistant, made a definite effort to retain much of the classic style, although his art is instantly discernable. Many obscure characters from the Segar years were maintained, especially O.G.Wotasnozzle and King Blozo. Sagendorf's new characters, such as the Thung, had a very Segar-lik ...

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Popeye, Popeye - The comic strip, Popeye - Artists after Segar, Popeye - The sailor in the media, Popeye - Theatrical cartoons, Popeye - Television cartoons, Popeye - Other media, Popeye - Spinach, Popeye - Marketing and tie-ins, Popeye - Reprints, Popeye - Characters in Popeye comics/cartoons, Popeye - Thimble Theatre characters, Popeye - Popeye cartoon characters

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