While cartoonist E.C. Segar's Popeye commits superhuman feats, thanks to his performance-enhancing spinach, fellow "Thimble Theater" character J. Wellington Wimpy often steals the show by bumming ...

CHESTER, ILL. - Before Popeye the Sailor, Olive Oyl and Wimpy were the stars of a beloved comic strip, they walked the streets of this little town where their creator grew up. Popeye’s real-life alter ...

In a newly commissioned bonus feature located on Paramount Home Entertainment’s 40th anniversary Blu-ray release of Popeye, director Robert Altman called his Robin Williams-starring picture “America’s ...

TOAR- The 20,000 year old caveman debuted as Popeye’s foe but soon became one of his most trusted friends. Popeye's Pups - Snits and Fido are early canine cohorts of the Thimble Theatre thespians. Hy ...

Well, blow me down. Check out this disclaimer on the wonderful and long-awaited collection of Max Fleischer’s “Popeye the Sailor Volume One 1933-1938” (Warner, $64.98): “The animated shorts you are ...

Popeye would gladly pony up for the old-fashioned burgers and ice cream that are this diner’s specialty. Wimpy’s takes its name from the hamburger-obsessed character in the famous Popeye the Sailor ...