Popeye

Ja think I'm a coyboy???
I'm short, balding and downright ugly. I have one eye and no teeth.
I am an underdog with a long fuse and a keen sense of fair play.
I was born Jan. 17, 1929, in Elzie Segar's then 10-year-old comic strip, "Thimble Theatre," which originally revolved around Olive Oyl's family.
Although I was introduced as a minor walk-on character, I quickly "muskled" me way into the limelight and eclipsed the older characters to become the star of "Thimble Theatre."
I made the jump to the silver screen in a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon entitled, "Popeye the Sailor from the Fleischer Studios".
Nearly 750 Popeye cartoons were made and many are available on video.
In 1980, Paramount Pictures released a live-action musical motion picture in which I was portrayed by Robin Williams and Olive Oyl played by Shelley Duvall.
In 1993, Ted Turner's Cartoon Network celebrated the 60th anniversary of me film debut with "Popumentary," a series of six prime-time specials.
In 2004, I made me debut in Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy, the first-ever Popeye the Sailor Man 3-D, CGI animated production. The half-hour special aired in primetime on FOX during the holiday 2004 season and was rebroadcast in 2005.
I am known as Iron Arm in Italy, Karl Alfred in Sweden and Skipper Skraek or "Terror of the Sea" in Denmark, I continue to appear in comic books published around the world.
Interestingly, me spinach obsession began in the Thimble Theatre strip but became an indispensable plot device in me later adventures.
Spinach capital Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue in 1937 to honor E.C. Segar and me for our influence on America's eating habits, making me the first cartoon character ever immortalized in public sculpture!
The spinach growers credited me with a 33 percent increase in U.S. spinach consumption — and saving the spinach industry in the 1930s!
Today I have made Popeye-brand canned spinach the No. 2 brand behind Del Monte and I have me own brand of fresh spinach, salads and fresh vegetable snacks.
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