Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Popeye</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1965-01-10
name: label: graphic artist
content: Sagendorf, Bud
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing was prepared for the comic strip <i>Thimble Theatre, Starring Popeye.</i> Popeye is shown talking about his move to his new house, which has everything he could ever need. The last panel reveals the house to be next to a spinach factory.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Forrest Cowles "Bud" Sagendorf (1915-1994) started his cartoonist career in 1931 as an assistant to E. C. Segar for the comic strips <i>Thimble Theatre</i> and <i>Sappo.</i> After Segar’s death in 1938, Sagendorf was asked to continue drawing any material that featured the character Popeye, who had been a part of the <i>Thimble Theatre</i> cast since 1929. Over the next few decades, Sagendorf wrote and drew <i>Popeye</i> for Dell Comic Books, and eventually took over the entire <i>Thimble Theatre</i> strip in 1959. In the mid-1980s Sagendorf’s eyesight began to fail and he left the daily strip, but continued to draw the Sunday strip until his death in 1994.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Popeye</i> (1929-1994, dailies, continuing Sundays) was originally a component of E. C. Segar’s <i>Thimble Theatre</i> comic strip. The character Popeye was first introduced when Castor Oyl and Ham Gravy were traveling overseas, and happened upon the sailor while they were lost. The character Popeye became popular and eventually a regular cast member. Later, in the 1970s, the strip was renamed for him. One of the biggest turning points in the strip was Ham Gravy's replacement by Popeye as a love interest for Castor Oyl’s sister, Olive. Gradually, other characters such as Wimpy and Swee’Pea were made more central to the cast. The Popeye character was adapted to films in the 1930s. Newspapers have been publishing reprints of Sagendorf’s dailies since 1994, but the Sunday <i>Popeye</i> strip is still drawn regularly.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22425
label: catalog number
content: 22425
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41.5 cm x 58.9 cm; 16 5/16 in x 23 3/16 in