ANIME CHARACTER (POPEYE)

                              (POPEYE)

                    POPEYE THE SAILOR IS A FICTIONAL MUSCULAR AMERICAN CARTOON CHARACTER CREATED BY ELZIE CRISLER SEGAR. THE CHARACTER FIRST APPEARED IN THE DAILY KING FEATURES COMIC STRIP THIMBLE THEATRE ON JANUARY 17,1929, AND POPEYE BECOME THE STRIP'S TITLE IN LATER YEARS. THE CHARACTER ALSO APPEARED IN THEATRICAL AND TELEVISON ANIMATED CARTOONS.

                 SEGAR'S THIMBLE THEATRE STRP WAS IN ITS 10TH YEAR WHEN POPEYE MADE HIS DEBUT,BUT THE ONE-EYED SAILOR QUICKLY BECAME THE MAN FOCUS OF THE STRIP, AND THIMBLE THEATRE ONE OF KING FEATURE'S MOST POPULAR PROPERTIES DURING THE 1930S. AFTER SEGAR DIED IN 1938, THIMBLE THEATERE WAS CONTINUED BY SEVREL WRITERS AND ARTISTS, MOST NOTABLY SEGAR'S ASSISTANT BUD SAGENDORF. THE STRIP COUNTINUES TO APPEAR IN FIRST-RUN INSTALLMENTS IN ITS SUNDAY EDITION, WRTTEE AND DRAWN BY HY EISMAN. THE DAILY STRIPS ARE REPRINTS OF OLD SAGENDORF STORIES.

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 IN 1933, MAX FLAISER ADAPTED THE THIMBLE THEATRE CHARACTERS INTO A SERIES OF POPEYE THE SAILOR THEATRICAL CARTOONS SHORT FOR PARAMAUNT PICTURES. THESE CARTOONS PROVED TO BE AMONG THE MOST POPULAR OF THE 1930, AND FLAISCHER - AND LATER PARAMOUNT'S OWN FAMOUS STUDIOS- CONTINUED PRODUCTION THROUGH 1957. THESE CARTONS SHORTS ARE NOW OWNED BY TURNER ENTERTAINMENT AND DISTRIBUTED BY ITS SISTER COMPANY WARNER BROS.

                OVER THE YEARS, POPEYE HAS ALSO APPEARED IN COMIC BOOKS,TELEVISION CARTOONS,VIDEO GAMES,HUNDREDS OF ADVERTISEMENTS, PERIPHERAL PRODUCTS RANGING FROM SPINACH TO CANDY CIGARETTES, AND THE 1980 LIVE-ACTION FILM DIRECTED BYE ROBERT ALTMAN AND STARRING ROBIN WILLIAMS AS POPEYE.

CHARLESS M.    SCHULZ SAID,''I THINK POPEYE WAS THE PERFECT COMIC STRIP,CONSISTENT IN DRAWING AND HUMOR''. IN 2002, TV GUIDE RANKED POPEYE NUBER 20 ON ITS ''50 GREATEST CARTOON CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME'' LIST.