Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. E.C. Segar’s famous cartoon creation, Popeye, was miraculously transformed into a superhero ...

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 ...

“I’m strong to the finish ’cause I eats me spinach.” Popeye sang that lyric in many of the cartoons starring the super-strong Sailor Man. Indeed, he is so synonymous with spinach that he is still used ...

Segar christened the character "Popeye," a sailor who debuted in a strip in 1929. By 1933, when he began to appear as one of the lead characters in an animated cartoon series called "Thimble Theatre," ...