You may have noticed that Popeye the Sailor Man has been in the news now that the character, or at least his earliest comic ...

The official trailer for Shiver Me Timbers teases a new public domain horror flick starring Popeye the Sailor Man arriving in ...

On August 27, 1929, "Thimble Theater" comic strip by Elzie Crisler Segar featured an early interaction between the titular character and Olive Oyl. At the time, Olive wasn't dating Popeye ...

In his 2010 memoir, “Backing Into Forward,” he cited as influences the cartoonists E.C. Segar (“Thimble Theater,” the strip that introduced Popeye), Al Capp (“Li’l Abner”) and Milton ...

When Popeye was first introduced as a cartoon character in the strip Thimble Theatre on Jan. 17, 1929, a man carrying a briefcase marked “castor oil” asked him if he was a sailor and Popeye ...

After all, he yam what he yam! Popeye is 10 years younger than Olive Oyl! He walked onto her strip, “Thimble Theatre,” as a bit character in 1929. The information contained in South Florida ...

On this day, Ireland granted its first divorce in 1997. Meanwhile, the character of Popeye made its debut in the comic strip Thimble Theatre. As part of Firstpost Explainers’ History Today series, we ...