Popeye the Sailor Man!! (toot, toot)

I was reading the book Anne Frank (which I will talk about later) and she said something like "I am going to eat so much spinach I'm going to be like Popeye."

That took me back because I thought that Popeye was created in the '50s. My curiosity got the best of me and I stopped reading and got to work looking up information about Popeye. Here is what I found:

• The comic was called Thimble Theater
• Popeye wasn't the original main character, it was written about Olive Oil and her boyfriend Harold Hamgravy
• Popeye didn't appear till it't tenth year, and only as a minor character, but was loved so much the strip was eventually named after him
• In the comic Popeye is Swee'Pea ward, but in the cartoons he loves Olive Oil, and Swee'Pea never shows up 
• Popeye was created in the '30s, it was shown in one newspaper called New York Journal, and soon spread to many other newspapers.
• The artist and creator of the comic was E.C. Segar, after his death the comic was passed to his assistant Bud Seganduf.
• Many (a little less then half) of the original characters never appeared in the cartoon, and the comics were more complex and had a lot more detail then the cartoon.

I grew up watching Popeye on my grandmothers T.V. when I would visit for the summer. I would recommand that you find it somewhere and watch it, you haven't lived till you have seen Popeye!!