Popeye the Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons By Fred M. Grandinetti 230 pages/$30 hardcover $20 softcover/Bear Manor Media Like author Fred M. Grandinetti, I was a child of the 60s and was exposed to all the Popeye cartoons, and it took time for me to understand that some were excellent, some were good, and some…
If younger people today know Popeye at all, itâs probably his connection with spinach. The brilliance of the animated cartoons from the 1940s is forgotten as is his Can-Do personality and rich supporting cast. A while back, the classic black and white cartoons were being collected as a three volume DVD so it is most…
BURBANK, CA (November 27, 2018) – One of the biggest animated stars in American history returns to prominence in a specially remastered Blu-ray & DVD presentation with the Warner Archive Collection (WAC) release of Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 1, a 14-cartoon set that includes many shorts unseen in their original form for more…
Sometimes Geek Culture âÃÂàand comics âÃÂàserve up social commentaries for the world at large. One end of the spectrum is firmly occupied by OâÃÂÃÂNeil & AdamsâÃÂàgroundbreaking Green Lantern/Green Arrow series from the 70s. The other end of the spectrum has so many more examples: Eightball, Doonesbury, Love and Rockets, etc. Each employ…
Last year, I noticed an ad for Apple. I mean, you can’t not notice them, since they air every few minutes. <a href=” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiyIcz7wUH0 one was special, though, quoting someone quoting Walt Whitman. I wondered if it was made by the same agency that made the <a href=” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsP6XTHBwRw Smith Levi’s commercial. And I wondered…
January 1929 was a very good month for comic strip readers. On the 7th they got to see the arrival of Tarzan and Buck Rogers while ten days later, fans of Thimble Theater met a brand new character named Popeye. The sailor was never intended to take over the strip but his popularity with readers…
Via Chris Ryall at IDW Publishing, we have this drawing by John Byrne, featuring Popeye and an Uncanny X-team, too. C’mon, you never once looked at those forearms and thought to yourself, “Stinkin’ mutie”? With forearms that big, to heck with retractable claws– he could have a whole retractable wolverine in there. Nevertheless, this is…
IDW Publishing has revealed the cover for the upcoming MARS ATTACKS POPEYE comic book along with others in the Mars Attacks… line. Mars Attacks Popeye is written by Martin (Halloween Legion) Powell with art by Terry (The Phantom) Beatty. Mars Attacks Popeye will be in stores January 2013 from IDW. PRESS RELEASE: IDW has released…
Mark Evanier reminds us that Popeye falls into the public domain today in Europe under an EU law that restricts the rights of authors to 70 years after their death. Elzie "E. C." Segar, the Illinois artist who created Popeye, Olive Oyl, brother Castor Oyl and Bluto, died in 1938. So if you’re in Old…
By 1935, [[[Popeye the Sailor Man] was considered more popular than Mickey Mouse and his animated exploits thrilled theater goers year after year as the Fleischer Studios continued to churn them out almost monthly. When they began running on television, the animated exploits delighted a new generation of viewers and keeping the character viable long…
My Toons is a website featuring all manner of animated works from amateurs to the classic days of animation. They have just partnered with Vuze, one of the new online video hot spots to offer a MyToons Cartoon Classics channel featuring Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons from the Fleischer Studios. No Koko cartoons as yet, but…
Next January, E.C. Segar’s cartoon creation Popeye turns 80. That’s a good run, especially for a character who still wasn’t showing many signs of his age in the 2004 TV special Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy. While Popeye might not have aged over the years, he certainly has changed, which is clearly evident in…
