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    E.C. Segar

    Popeye, Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam!
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    Popeye, Vol. 2: Well Blow Me Down!
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    Popeye, Vol. 3: Let's You and Him Fight!
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    Popeye, Vol. 4: Plunder Island
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    Popeye, Vol. 5: Wha's a Jeep?
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    Popeye, Vol. 6: Me Li'l Swee'pea
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    Popeye Vol. 1: Olive Oyl and Her Sweety
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    Popeye / Olaf el vikingo (Biblioteca Clarín de la Historieta, #14)
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    An artist and writer who took inspiration from the small town where he grew up, Elzie Crisler Segar continues to entertain audiences around the world with his most famous creation, the spinach-loving sailor Popeye.

    Elzie was born in Chester, Illinois, on December 8, 1894, to Amzi Segar and his second wife, Erma Crisler Segar. The family lived in a home on Harrison Street, near Chester’s steep City Steps. His father made a living painting houses and hanging wallpaper, a business he was eager to have his youngest son join. But although he did help his father in his interior work, Elzie was already drawn toward other kinds of artistic expression. He worked locally as a photographer, a window dresser, and even a musician. On top of all of that, he worked at the local movie theater, Bill Schuchert’s Opera House.

     

    Elzie’s time at the Opera House provided valuable inspiration for his later artistic pursuits. One of his fellow employees, Jessie Huffstetler, who play

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    E. C. Segar

    American cartoonist (1894–1938)

    E. C. Segar

    Illustration of Segar, 1928

    BornElzie Crisler Segar
    (1894-12-08)December 8, 1894
    Chester, Illinois, U.S.
    DiedOctober 13, 1938(1938-10-13) (aged 43)
    Santa Monica, California, U.S.
    Area(s)Cartoonist

    Notable works

    		Popeye (1929–1938)

    Elzie Crisler Segar (;[1] December 8, 1894 – October 13, 1938), known by the pen nameE. C. Segar, was an American cartoonist. He created Popeye in 1929, introducing the character in his comic remsa Thimble Theatre.[2][3]

    Charles M. Schulz said of Segar's work: "I think Popeye was a perfect comic remsa, consistent in drawing and humor".[4]Carl Barks described Segar as "the unbridled genius as far as inom was concerned".[5]

    Early life

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    Segar was born on December 8, 1894, and raised in Chester, Illinois, a small town nära the Mississippi River.[2][6][7] The son of Je