The name of the famous cartoon figure and comic character created by Elzie Segar in the year 1929 is Popeye, who is generally known as ‘Popeye, the sailor man’. Popeye is actually sailor with pipe in his mouth and highly toned muscular arms. He munches spinach to get incredible strength so that he can fight out the villainous Bluto to save his fiancée Olive Oyl from the villain.
Popeye was first appeared and existed many days as a side character in Segar’s comic strip ‘Thimble Theater’, which continues with the adventures of Olive Oyl and her brother Castor Oyl. Popeye was just a sailor then without any heroic shade. Later the character of Popeye became so popular that the entire comic strip started to revolve around this sailor-man. Then ‘Thimble Theater’ changed into the comics of Popeye where Olive Oyl became Popeye‘s sweetheart. After Segar’s death in 1938, a number of writers continued the comic strips of Popeye, some of them also became much popular.
The next big venture of Popeye was to foot step in the television world as an animated character. The Popeye cartoon series was initiated by Max Fleischer Studios in 1933 and later continued by Paramount Studios. In the next 40 years, the viewers could have tasted over 600 shows of Popeye. In the cartoons, the main enemy of Popeye was Bluto, sometimes who is also called as ‘Brutus’. Wimpy and the sweet pie child were added as characters in the Popeye cartoon.