Cartoonist and storyboard artist Sherm Cohen has updated his fantastic How to Draw Cartoons Facebook page with scans of the rare 1939 book Popeye’s How to Draw Cartoons.The book has some solid ...

Media mogul Ted Turner plans to “color-convert” the 120 original black and white Max Fleischer Popeye the Sailor cartoons for programming on superstation WTBS and other syndicated outlets.

Despite all of Popeye’s success in the print medium, his fame skyrocketed when Fleischer Studios used his image in a series ...

1942: Popeye becomes a patriotic figure in WWII-themed cartoons, battling Axis powers in a variety of animated shorts. 1946: The last Technicolor two-reel special, Popeye and the Pirates, is released.

Click the launch module to the left for a video slide show on the original Popeye comics and cartoons. Like his fellow pop-culture icons from the early 20 th century—Mickey Mouse, Dick Tracy ...

You could say this was the Year of the Cartoon. Some of the biggest names ever to be animated celebrated milestone birthdays in 2009, even though they may not look their age. Popeye is 80. Scooby ...

Universal announced last month that they’re making new Woody Woodpecker cartoons, and now King Features is trying the same with E.C. Segar’s comic creation Popeye, in anticipation of the ...

Popeye cartoons are only aired on oldies channels and his most faithful fans have long since realized the limited vitality spinach can provide. Our Swee’Peas have Swee’Peas of their own, ...

From Betty Boop To Popeye, Franz von Suppé Survives In Cartoons You may not recognize the Austrian composer by name, but if you like cartoons, you've heard the music of Franz von Suppé.

EXCLUSIVE: A multi-part film about the Fleischer Brothers, creators of a pioneering animation studio that launched Betty Boop, Popeye The Sailor, and Superman cartoons, has won the richest prize ...

Usually, Mr. Stathes is searching for a specific clip — something with Felix the Cat (“the biggest star in 1920s cartoons”), say, or Popeye — for the regular events he hosts at Metrograph, ...