E.C. Segar

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Born Chester, Illinois, 1894. At age 18 decided to become a cartoonist. Took a correspondence course in cartooning from W.L. Evans, of Cleveland, Ohio. It costs me $100. Worked at house-painting and paper-hanging in the daytime, ran a moving picture projector and played trap drums for dances in the evening. Lit up the oil lamps about midnight and worked on the course until 3 a.m.

At age 20, R.F. Outcault, creator of the Buster Brown comic, got me a job on the old Chicago Herald, which went broke two years later. (It wasn't all my fault.) Arthur Brisbane came to my rescue and put me to work on the Chicago Evening American.

Two years later the managing editor, William Curley, thought I could make a go of it in New York, so he sent me to King Features Syndicate. I've been with them ever since. Began drawing Thimble Theatre the day I arrived in the big town. The characters were: Olive Oyl, Castor Oyl, and Ham Gravy. They were the leads for about ten years. Then one day about six years ago, Castor Oyl needed a sailor to navigate his ship to Dice Island. The result was Castor picked up a funny-looking old salt down by the docks, and his name was Popeye. Popeye immediately stole the show.

I have two children: Marie 13, and Tom, 9. They're swell kids and they eat their spinach and other garden products. Got a swell wife too; her name is Myrtle, won't mention her age.

Yers truly, Segar

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[debaytv]

no need to get upset because it was just an advise....and if you are upset you need to eat some spinnich.

[mrdeleted]

LOL No I was not upset! I was sort of experimenting with Google with this one, I wanted to see if I could get the video indexed within hours, and it was on the google video section in no time... And for a 24 second video, I like that it got indexed and got 2000 people to watch in within about 24 hours.

[debaytv]

well what is your message ..because we can see it in google first page and you do not need to waste your time to record/upload this .

[mrdeleted]

Not everyone did. And it was no waste, I made enough to pay for my time :-)

Anyway eat your spinnich! Is that a good enough message for you?

[Annotize]

Looking good! Who does not like Popeye?

[mrdeleted]

Popeye is a cool cartoon, RIP E.C. Segar.

[somecallmeelvis]

@1060893 Segar more like Sega from Sonic the Hedgehog E.C Segar last name has a subliminal messages

[RJRanke]

Elzie Crisler Segar was born in Chester,Illinois on Dec.8,1894.He became a newspaper cartoonist and did comic strips such as Barry the Boob,Looping the Loop and Thimble Theatre.Thimble Theatre began in 1919 and featured Olive Oyl and Ham Gravy.Other characters like Olive's brother Castor Oyl and their parents Cole Oyl and Nana Oyl appeared-and they had adventures with different characters over the years.One character they met in 1929 was Popeye,who became a regular-and then the star.

[1060893]

Segar is pronounced "See-Gar".

[debaytv]

good for you men.

[mrdeleted]

:-) thanks for the comment!