Popeye

Popeye the Sailor
Popeye the Sailor
Thimble Theatre/Popeye character
	Popeye; I'm strong to the "finich", 'cause I eats me spinach. — lyric from "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man"
First appearance	Thimble Theatre (1929)
Created by	E. C. Segar
Voiced by	English William Costello (1933–1935); Detmar Poppen (1935–1936, radio only); Floyd Buckley (1936–1937 radio appearances, 1937 Bluebird Records records, 1945–1946 cartoons); Jack Mercer (1935–1945, 1947–1984); Mae Questel (1945–1946); Harry Foster Welch (1946–1947, 1960s Peter Pan Records records); Candy Candido (I'm Popeye the Sailor Man/The Little White Duck); Allen Swift (Official TV Popeye Record Album, Popeye's Favorite Sea Shanties, Start commercial); Tex Brashear (Cocoa Puffs commercials); Maurice LaMarche (1987–1990); Jeff Bergman (1989–1996, commercials); Sonny Melendrez (Dickinson Theatres commercials); Tim Kitzrow (Popeye Saves the Earth); Wally Wingert (Popeye and the Quest For the Woolly Mammoth, Popeye and the Sunken Treasure); Geertjan Hessing ("I'm Popeye The Sailor Man" cover); Scott Innes (Campbell's Soup commercial); Keith Scott (Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges, Pandemonium Cartoon Circus); Billy West (Minute Maid commercial, Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy, Drawn Together); Marc Biagi (Slots from Bally Gaming); Richard Halpern (Boop-Oop-a-Dooin'); Allen Enlow (United States Power Squadrons radio spots); Trey Parker (South Park); Kevin Shinick (Mad); Tom Kenny (2014 animation test, 2016–present); Matt Hurwitz (Project Runway All Stars, World of Warships); Joe Newton (Popeye's Island Adventures); Japanese Tetsuo Nishihama (Popeye the Sailorman/Olive and Bluto's Race Song); Hikaru Urano; Shigeo Takamatsu; Kenichi Ogata; Kaneta Kimotsuki; Chō; Wataru Takagi; Chosuke Ikariya; Kenji Utsumi; Kōichi Yamadera;
Portrayed by	Gus Wickie (1933–1939 public appearances); Harry Foster Welch (1934–1940s public events and amusement parks, Pleasure Island); Robin Williams (1980 film)
In-universe information
Full name	Popeye the Sailor
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Occupation	Sailor
Family	Poopdeck Pappy (father)
Significant other	Olive Oyl
Children	Swee'Pea (adoptive son)
Relatives	Granny (paternal grandmother); Patcheye (great-grandfather); Aunt Jones (aunt); Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye and Pupeye (nephews)

Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The character first appeared on January 17, 1929, in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre. The strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed sailor quickly became the lead character, and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. Following Segar's death in 1938, Thimble Theatre was continued by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. It was formally renamed Popeye. The strip continues to appear in first-run installments on Sundays, written and drawn by R.K. Milholland. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories.

In 1933, Max Fleischer adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and Fleischer Studios, which later became Paramount's own Famous Studios, continued production through 1957. Cartoons produced during World War II included Allied propaganda, as was common among cartoons of the time. These cartoon shorts are now owned by Turner Entertainment and distributed by its sister company Warner Bros.

Over the years, Popeye has also appeared in comic books, television cartoons, video games, hundreds of advertisements, peripheral products ranging from spinach to candy cigarettes, and the 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman and starring Robin Williams as Popeye.

Charles M. Schulz said, "I think Popeye was a perfect comic strip, consistent in drawing and humor". In 2002, TV Guide ranked Popeye number 20 on its "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" list.

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