This Week in Illinois History Popeye creator E. C. Segar born


American cartoonist E. C. Segar being carried by actor Harry Foster

On December 8, 1894, cartoonist E. C. Segar was born in Chester, Illinois, a Mississippi River town an hour south of St. Louis. Segar would go on to create one of the world's most iconic cartoon characters, Popeye the Sailor. Segar caught the art bug early, painting houses and signs for his handyman father.


E.C. Segar Popeye 6 (Ediciones Kraken)

Popeye the Sailor is an American animated series of short films based on the Popeye comic strip character created by E. C. Segar.In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios, based in New York City, adapted Segar's characters into a series of theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. The plotlines in the animated cartoons tended to be simpler than those presented in the comic.


popeyepanels September 20, 1932 by E.C. Segar. Comics, Popeye

Elzie Crisler Segar (/ ˈ s iː ɡ ɑːr /; December 8, 1894 - October 13, 1938), known by the pen name E. C. Segar, was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Popeye, a pop culture character who first appeared in 1929 in Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre.. Charles M. Schulz said of Segar's work: "I think Popeye was a perfect comic strip, consistent in drawing and humor".


The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye Volume 8 Dailies 19321934 by E.C. Segar

E.C. Segar (1894-1938) was one of the classic American cartoonists of the 1920s and '30s, best known for creating the beloved comic character Popeye. Hailing from Chester, IL, Segar had an unconventional path to cartooning success. He started out providing musical accompaniment for movies and vaudeville acts at his local theater, eventually.


Elzie Crisler Segar Known professionally as E.C. Segar was an

Books about E.C. Segar For those interested in Segar's life, Fred Grandinetti's 'Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History' (2004) is a must-read. Between 2006 and 2012, Fantagraphics has reprinted all original 'Popeye' comics by Segar chronologically in luxury book format, accompanied with dossiers by Bill Blackbeard, Jules Feiffer, Donald.


E. C. Segar Rustic Lakeside Painting Original Art (c. 1930s

Segar is widely regarded as one of the most influential and talented cartoonists of all time, among the first to combine humor with long-running adventures. A revival of interest in Segar's creations began with Woody Gelman's Nostalgia Press. Robert Altman's live-action film Popeye (1980) is adapted from E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip.


Complete E.C. Segar Popeye Sundays HC (19841985 FB) Nemo Bookshelf

Santa Monica, Cal., Oct. 14(AP)- E.C. Segar, the house painter who became a cartoonist by taking a $20 mail order course, left in death today a million-dollar legacy of comic characters to amuse the world. The creator of "Thimble Theatre," a quaint comic strip printed daily by more than 500 newspapers, and "Popeye the Sailor," a movie.


This Week in Illinois History Popeye creator E. C. Segar born

Elzie Crisler Segar (December 8, 1894 - October 13, 1938) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of Popeye, who first appeared in his newspaper comic strip Thimble Theatre in 1929. He was also the creator of the Sappo strip. Segar was born and raised in Chester, Illinois, a small town on the Mississippi River. The son of a handyman, his earliest work experiences included.


The original art for a 1932 E.C. Segar strip for Thimble Theater

E.C. Segar. Writer: Popeye. E.C. Segar was born on 8 December 1894 in Chester, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Popeye (1980), Popeye the Sailor (1933) and Adventures of Popeye (1935). He was married to Myrtle Annie Johnson. He died on 13 October 1938 in Santa Monica, California, USA.


E. C. Segar Lambiek Comiclopedia

Elzie Crisler Segar ( / ˈsiːɡɑːr /; December 8, 1894 - October 13, 1938), known by the pen name E. C. Segar, was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Popeye, a pop culture character who first appeared in 1929 in Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre. Charles M. Schulz said of Segar's work: "I think Popeye was a perfect comic.


E.C. Segar Carried by Popeye!, in Rob Stolzer's Cartoonist Photos

From its inception in January 1925, six years after the daily strip's debut, the Sunday Thimble Theatre was a down-to-earth, rough-edged physical comedy, shot through with its creator's school-of-hard-knocks philosophy. Segar's is a violent world. Fisticuffs and domestic assaults abound in the strip and its topper, Sappo, which tells the.


E. C. Segar Popeye Sunday Comic Strip Original Art, dated 91335

The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye Volume 5: Dailies - 1928-1929. by E.C. Segar. 4.46 · 13 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1985 · 3 editions. Book by Bobby London. Want to Read. Rate it:


Popeye Volume 1 Olive Oyl and Her Sweety by E.C. Segar — Official Book

Segar died in 1938 from leukemia but the King Features Syndicate controlled the rights to the character and has hired a series of artists to continue the strip and movie appearances.


E.C. Segar at the Drawing Board 2, in Rob Stolzer's Cartoonist Photos

E.C. Segar has 128 books on Goodreads with 3063 ratings. E.C. Segar's most popular book is Popeye, Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam!.


E C Segar Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Elzie Segar (born Dec. 8, 1894, Chester, Ill., U.S.—died Oct. 13, 1938, Santa Monica, Calif.) American cartoonist and creator of "Popeye," a comic strip in which the main character, a roughhewn sailor who gained immense strength from eating spinach, became an international folk hero. As a young man Segar worked as a house painter, sign.


E. C. Segar Tutto Sappo Lo Spazio Bianco

E.C. Segar. Writer: Popeye. E.C. Segar was born on 8 December 1894 in Chester, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Popeye (1980), Popeye the Sailor (1933) and The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934). He was married to Myrtle Annie Johnson. He died on 13 October 1938 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

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