On this day (January 17th) in 1929 King Features introduced the character, created by E. C. Segers from Chester, Illinois.
His family consisted of Granny, (nephews) Poopdeck Pappy, Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.
His significant other was Olive Oyl. The cartoon series became a financial success promoting Popeye's incredible feats of strength due to his eating Spinach.
**Thanks to my friend Mike Wilke for his drawing of Popeye**
Without Popeye we`d have never met Alice the Goon or Eugene the Jeep !!!!!! Popeye`s adventures on Goon Island, with the naked,scary Goons, was the stuff of childhood fever-dreams
I'm chuckling at all the many memory's that are being rekindled with my starting this birthday wish to Popeye. Growing up we had the greatest cartoons, the greatest TV programs, greatest radio, greatest cars, ah heck it was just the greatest time to be a kid.
I'm chuckling at all the many memory's that are being rekindled with my starting this birthday wish to Popeye. Growing up we had the greatest cartoons, the greatest TV programs, greatest radio, greatest cars, ah heck it was just the greatest time to be a kid.
To the disagreement of no one present:So sayeth the Schire 🧐
I don't know about you folks, but I was traumatized when I grew old enough to understand the ramifications of Mickey and Minnie being married! Innocent cartoons indeed! And I absolutely refuse to talk about how fickle Olive Oil was!
I don't know about you folks, but I was traumatized when I grew old enough to understand the ramifications of Mickey and Minnie being married! Innocent cartoons indeed! And I absolutely refuse to talk about how fickle Olive Oil was!
Olive settled down some after Baby Oil started school.....but she certainly did meet a lot of ships in her day
The most stable marriages were between birds.....FAT birds......mom would always be dressed in an apron,usually baking a pie.....dad was a professor and did no more than relax in his recliner, smoking his briarwood pipe and reading the village newspaper
it always seemed that at least one of the children was quite accomplished at whatever pursuit they`d chosen....a regular prodigy you might say
fisticuffs as a primary means of negotiation,pets that routinely disappeared
