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Cartoonist E.C. Other characters were Bluto, Popeyes nemesis for Olive Oyl’s attention and Popeye’s pet named Eugene the Jeep. Paramount Pictures adopted the strip character into the Popeye the Sailor animated cartoon in an agreement with Max Fleischer of Fleischer Studios and King Features in 1932.
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Recently statues have been raised of the other local character inspirations. Rumor has it that Fiegel wasn’t really aware of his role in the creation of our favorite character Popeye until his final years of life, passing away in 1947. Dora Paskel, the owner of a local general store, was unusually tall and thin, wearing her hair in a loose bun at the nape of her neck. Popeye's real-life inspiration is sometimes attributed to a photo of an old sailor who really does resemble Popeye the Sailor Man, but this is just internet folklore.
J. William Schuchert was the local theater owner who had a voracious appetite for hamburgers. And Frank Fiegel was a one-eyed, pipe-smoking brawler who never turned down a fight. While he was only meant to be around for a few strips, the Popeye character quickly became very popular and the focus of the strip.
The Popeye the Sailor Man character debuted in The Thimble Theatre comic strip in 1929. The comic was created in the late 1920s by E.C. Popeye finds a baby in the mail which he adopts and names Swee’Pea. Uh oh, looks like #Popeye's got some competition. His name is lost to history, but the Imperial War Museum lists him as "A Leading Stoker nicknamed 'Popeye,'" with 21 years in service and fighting aboard the HMS Rodney in 1940. There was also a cobbler, Alice the Goon, Swee’Pea’s babysitter, and a caveman named Toar. Did you know… Frank “Rocky” Fiegel (Popeye the Sailor) Just by throwing a glance at a photograph of Frank Fiegel you can notice the resemblance between him and Popeye.
Fiegel would have been at least 70 years old when this photo of the battleship sailor was taken. Popeye fans rectified this in 1996. Popeye’s popularity continued to rise, making these cartoons some of the most successful in the 1930s. Well, the man who Elzie Segar knew in Illinois was named Frank “Rocky” Fiegel.
In an unfortunate turn of events, Paramount Pictures fired Fleischer Studios and began running the cartoon and others under their newly created Famous Studios.