Well Blow Me Down: A Popeye Shipwreck Game!
While walking to work every so often I’ll pass an antique store which is on the corner of Houston and Elizabeth Street — this week I came across an amazing find: A framed vintage 1933 Popeye the...
View ArticleThe Classic Cartoon Carnival That Came to Brooklyn
If you take the J train over the Williamsburg Bridge, get off at Kosciusko Street and walk a few blocks west, you’ll come to a storefront that looks like it’s home to a going out of business sale,...
View ArticlePopeye: The Spinach Powered Sailor Turns 81 Years Old Today
On this day in 1929 artist Elzie Crisler Segar added a new character to his Thimble Theatre comic strip named Popeye the Sailor Man. It’s hard to believe but Thimble Theatre was running for ten years...
View ArticleA Manga Bag That Channels Wimpy
Illustrator Shigeyuki Fukumitsu created this hamburger themed manga shopping bag for Village Vanguard, a bookstore chain in Japan. What’s funny about it is that the illustration reminds me a great...
View ArticleGenndy Tartakovsky Debuts Test Footage For CGI Popeye Film
And… it looks pretty good! I mean, a CGI Popeye is perhaps not the most ideal situation in the first place — but if that’s your only option, doing it with Genndy Tartakovsky is a great way to tackle...
View ArticleGenndy Tartakovsky No Longer On Sony’s Popeye
Things are tough out there for Genndy Tartakovsky. The dude seems like a stand-up fellow, so why do all of his projects seem to have such a hard time getting made… or staying around? It must be hard on...
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