Forrest “Bud” Sagendorf was E.C. Segar’s young assistant on Popeye in the 1930s. When Segar died in 1938, King Features Syndicate considered Sagendorf too young to take over the comic strip. Instead, ...

While cartoonist E.C. Segar's Popeye commits superhuman feats, thanks to his performance-enhancing spinach, fellow "Thimble Theater" character J. Wellington Wimpy often steals the show by bumming ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. E.C. Segar’s famous cartoon creation, Popeye, was miraculously transformed into a superhero ...

Anyone who grew up on the Popeye television series thinks of him as a Navy sailor. But that's not where he started in E.C. Segar's original comic strip back in 1929, and he took a couple of surprising ...

It's the way modern society chooses to celebrate people, it seems. A Google Doodle on the Google homepage today, to celebrate Popeye creator E.C. Segar's birthday, one hundred and fifteen years ago ...

There’s no Genndy Tartakovsky Popeye film coming out anytime soon, but fans of the E.C. Segar creation got some good news today. Hearst-owned King Features Syndicate, which recently revealed an ...

"Ever since I was a kid, the two cartoonists who have had the biggest influence on me have been Carl Barks and EC Segar, so getting a chance to write Popeye is quite a thrill," said Langridge. "I'm ...