biography
| name: |
Segar, Elzie (Crisler)
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pronunciation:
[seeger]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1938)
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| biography:
| Strip cartoonist, the creator of Popeye, born in Chester, Illinois, USA. He took a correspondence course in cartooning, and worked on the daily strip, Charlie Chaplin's Comic Capers (1916). In New York City he started Thimble Theater (1919), a strip about Olive Oyl and her brother Castor. Popeye the Sailor appeared as a character 10 years later, and quickly became internationally popular as a weedy hero, who wins Olive Oyl by the powers given him by eating spinach. The subject of numerous animated cartoon films, Popeye's statue was erected in Crystal City, TX, a major spinach-growing centre. |
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