Unfortunately, Google isn’t always right, and this is a case in point. He has got the infamous crooked face and smoking a pipe – although Popeye smokes a corncob pipe, whereas this sailor smokes a billiard-type pipe.īut is this man really the inspiration for Popeye the Sailor Man? Judging by Google’s algorithms then yes. And the image clearly looks like a real-life model of Popeye. You’ve probably already seen the images floating around the internet of the allegedly “real inspiration behind Popeye”. When Popeye enrolled for the U.S Navy, Segar had been dead for 3 years, as Segar died of leukemia at the age of 43 in 1938.Īdvertisements Credit: Inspiration behind Popeye the Sailor Man Thus, the foundation of Popeye’s military career may have been laid by Segar, but it wasn’t Segar who actually placed Popeye in the navy. It wasn’t until 1937 that he joined the Coast Guard. In the beginning, Popeye wasn’t in the military but a merchant sailor. The Argentinian scholar Sofie Poggi actually called the development of Popeye “discursive Darwinism”, meaning that the most popular character survives the longest in a franchise (Poggio 2020, 117). So, in reality, it was a happy accident that brought Popeye into modern pop culture. He was never meant to be a recurring character of Segars cartoons, but the audience reaction to the gruff sailor sealed Popeyes fate in the cartoons. The character of Popeye was introduced on January 17, 1929. The comic strip had been running for ten years before the character of Popeye was created. The strip’s leading characters should be very familiar to fans of Popeye the Sailor Man, as they included Olive Oyl, Castor Oyl, and Ham Gravy. Here, Segar began his career at the New York Journal by publishing the stripe Thimble Theatre, which debuted on December 19, 1919. Segars editor, William Curley, saw talent in Segar and sent him to New York to publish in the New York Journal. Segar started publishing at the Chicago Herald and the Chicago Evening American. In his early adulthood, he decided to become a cartoon artist and moved to Chicago, Illinois. Segar was born in Chester, Illinois who even in his early years showed a talent for creativity, playing several instruments and helping at the local film theater. Popeye the Sailor Man was first created by Elzie Crisler Segar in January 1929.
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Not only do people around the globe recognize the character, but what sprang from a comic strip is now a TV show, a videogame, and a web series.
And it is safe to say, that Popeye has had a cultural influence on our world. We will discuss who created the cartoon and how it developed, as well as its cultural influence. In this article, we will be diving deeper into the story of Popeye the Sailor Man. One of the appealing factors about the Popeye character has always been his blunt manors and the fact that he, despite a lack of intelligence, always is portrayed as a good-hearted man, whom the other characters can trust.
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