Tag Archive | "Popeye"

Eat your spinach, it’s good for you

Friday, October 14, 2011

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Popeye is one of those enduring children’s characters, who has gone through quite a few incarnations since his appearance in strip format in 1929, and soon IDW will be bringing the character back to the comic book shelves. I attended the launch of Josephine Bacon’s (no relation) Popeye Cookbook, published by SelfMadeHero, in Notting Hill [...]

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X-Men at the Thimble Theatre

Sunday, October 24, 2010

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Great comics mashup by Ben Towle of E.C. Seger’s Thimble Theatre characters and Claremont’s 80s X-Men. (Via CBR/Robot 6)

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I’m Popeye the Sailor Man…

Sunday, September 19, 2010

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“I’m Popeye the Sailor Man, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man. I’m strong to the finich Cause I eats me spinach. I’m Popeye the Sailor Man.” (spotted on a beach in Scotland – sand doodles are clearly getting better! Pic from my Flickr)

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Animation archives

Monday, January 18, 2010

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BoingBoing has had Stephen Worth guest-blogging for them; Stephen is, as many of you probably know already, the director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive (a site any animation lover should have bookmarked) and he’s been posting a series of blogs under the BB Cartoon Circus banner talking about early animation and the artists involved, including [...]

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Namor vs Popeye: Fight, Fight, Fight, Fight

Sunday, September 13, 2009

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(Namor Art by Evan “Doc” Shaner, Popeye art by Jay Fosgitt) Well, who do you think would win? My money’s on Popeye. Those arms look spinached up and Namor’s always been a bit crap out of the water.

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Real life actors as comics characters

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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El Pais had five actors from Spain made up especially as real life versions of well known comics characters, including Popeye, Tintin, Batman/Bruce Wayne, Flash Gordon (although he appeared to be in the 80s movie costume rather than comic style) and a disturbingly cute girly ‘Donald Duck’ (just go and look and see what I [...]

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Popeye in London

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Artist Jeff Koons has a solo show opening at the Serpentine Gallery in London, including works from his Popeye series. “I watched Popeye when I was younger… I always see a little bit of my father in Popeye,” the American artist commented. Obviously Koons is not the first from the fine arts world to use [...]

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