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.

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.

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 ...

Instead of sporting a pipe in his mouth, Popeye now carries a whistle. (Perhaps he’ll referee a football game in a future episode.) And spinach gives him superpowers, like ear-flying, which is ...

The first hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in 25 years is a partnership between the Chicago folk-rock band's dBpm record label and King Features, the company that has run Popeye comics since 1929.

His newest book, which took him three years to write, focuses on the history of “Popeye the Sailor” color cartoons for television produced from 1960 to 1962.

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 ...

In the classic 1930s cartoon Popeye the Sailor, Popeye conducts a performance of von Suppé's "Poet and Peasant" Overture, renamed, for the occasion, the "Spinach Overture." Mickey Mouse was also ...