Popeye remains the world's greatest spinach salesman nearly a century after he made his comic-strip debut on the eve of the Great Depression. The sailor man's legend is recounted every March 26, ...

It was initially focused on Olive Oyl, her brother Castor Oyl and Olive’s boyfriend, Harold Hamgravy. 1920s: The Introduction of Popeye January 17, 1929: Popeye the Sailor debuts in the Thimble ...

The beloved cartoon character with the one-eyed squint and bulging biceps, who is “strong to the finich, ‘cause I eats me spinach,” marked his 95th anniversary on Wednesday. To honor the nautical hero ...

ALMA — Popeye must not be kidding about the benefits of spinach. The Alma Spinach Festival, which is now celebrating its 25th anniversary, is still growing stronger and bigger. “We’re trying to really ...

Among the observations to be gleaned from a new volume edited by Peter Maresca, “Thimble Theater and the Pre-Popeye Comics of E.C. Segar,” is that Olive Oyl was not always a paragon of gangly ...

Popeye the Sailor, the weathered and quick-with-his-fists cartoon character, is getting a reboot for a series of animated shorts that premiered Sunday on YouTube. The shorts and a new series of comic ...

Popeye: Rush for Spinach has Popeye throwing the gauntlet in a series of races on different vehicles, trying to defeat the fierce opposition presented by other popular characters, such as Olive Oyl, ...