2006-12-01 18:02:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Elzie Crisler Segar, an American cartoonist, in 1929. Check out this Wikipedia write-up...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elzie_Crisler_Segar
Enjoy!
2006-12-01 18:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by Bell 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Elzie Crisler Segar
2006-12-05 11:56:55 · answer #2 · answered by iamknives64 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elzie Crisler Segar
2006-12-02 07:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by Ritwik Desai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elzie Crisler Segar
2006-12-02 02:05:14 · answer #4 · answered by T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Popeye the Sailor is a famous comic strip character, later featured in popular animated cartoons. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar[1] (who would sign some of his early Popeye comic strips with a cigar because it sounded the same as his name) 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. Thimble Theater, 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 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. 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.
2006-12-02 03:20:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elzie Segar
2006-12-02 02:04:59 · answer #6 · answered by Huliganjetta 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fellow named Segar, you can find a lot more about him on Toonopedia. It's better for our purposes than Wikipedia.
3 DEC 06, 0433 hrs, GMT.
2006-12-02 23:29:02 · answer #7 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe the answer to that would be 'Pappy the sailor man' or 'The Commodore' depending on which story you believe...No Mommy tho ...he grew up as an "orfink".
2006-12-02 02:30:36 · answer #8 · answered by Gene B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You might want to try this site as well.
http://home.earthlink.net/~thimbletheatre/index.html
2006-12-02 02:15:40 · answer #9 · answered by lyoskowitz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋