Popeye the Sailor is a 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 Theater 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 and it remains one of the longest running strips in syndication today. Thimble Theater, carried on after Segar’s death in 1938 by artists such as Bud Sagendorf, was renamed Popeye in the 1970s. 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 Theater 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. Later Popeye cartoons were produced for television from 1960 to 1962 by King Features, and from 1978 to 1982 and 1987 to 1988 by Hanna-Barbera Productions (now owned by Warner Brothers).
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