Popeye the Sailor is a famous comic strip character, later featured in 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 quickly became the main focus of the strip, which was one of King Features' most popular strips during the 1930s. Thimble Theatre, carried on after Segar's 1938 death by artists such as Bud Sagendorf, was renamed Popeye in the 1970s. Today drawn by Hy Eisman, Popeye continues to appear in first-run strips in Sunday papers (daily Popeye strips are reruns of older strips).

In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and Popeye at one time rivaled Mickey Mouse for popularity among audiences. After Paramount assumed control of the Fleischer Studio in 1942, they continued producing the series until 1957. Future Popeye cartoons were produced for television from 1960 to 1962 by King Features, and from 1978 to 1982 as well as 1987 to 1988 by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

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Popeye is an independent sailor with a unique way of speaking, muscular forearms with two (sometimes one) anchors tattooed on them, and an ever-present corncob pipe. His strange, humorous, and often supernatural adventures take him all over the world, and place him in conflict with enemies such as the Sea Hag and King Blozo of Brutopia.

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@ivanz en Popeye's?? ja ja ja ja!!! XD
Lummiie (Lummie) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:40:36 -0000
@ivanz en Popeye's?? ja ja ja ja!!! XD
RT @monerohernandez: Error 552 del día: Esa Pechuga de Pollo Popeye (No la pidan, amiguitos…).// Pero qué es bueno d Popeye's en México hoy?
Lummiie (Lummie) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:35:10 -0000
RT @monerohernandez: Error 552 del día: Esa Pechuga de Pollo Popeye (No la pidan, amiguitos…).// Pero qué es bueno d Popeye's en México hoy?
so we had popeye's 2nite. wanted chinese food, but i was out voted...lol ha! havin' movie night...watchin' G.I. Joe & then Pelham 123.
BDaEminent1 (Brian=QualityBGV's) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:31:11 -0000
so we had popeye's 2nite. wanted chinese food, but i was out voted...lol ha! havin' movie night...watchin' G.I. Joe & then Pelham 123.
@wigunadarma eh lo gatau berlian? yang alay yang najis tuh bukan gue tapi elo KAMPUNG! hahahahahahaha eh si olive popeye mana? (tutu) hahaha
revyepooye (Revy Epooye Kusnandi) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:22:59 -0000
@wigunadarma eh lo gatau berlian? yang alay yang najis tuh bukan gue tapi elo KAMPUNG! hahahahahahaha eh si olive popeye mana? (tutu) hahaha
Can we all agree to stop saying "it is what it is?" I get the sentiment but it's thisclose to Popeye's ever philosophical "I am what I am."
_brigita_ (Bridget McCullough) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:13:53 -0000
Can we all agree to stop saying "it is what it is?" I get the sentiment but it's thisclose to Popeye's ever philosophical "I am what I am."
Eating Popeye's & watching Law & Order on NBC...crazy episode.....just starting...
MoFresha (5*Fresha LTL) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:02:10 -0000
Eating Popeye's & watching Law & Order on NBC...crazy episode.....just starting...

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