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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781560977797
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 1560977795
Label: Fantagraphics Books
Manufacturer: Fantagraphics Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: November 22, 2006
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Studio: Fantagraphics Books
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This series collects the complete run of Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre (dailies and color Sundays) featuring Popeye. This striking volume, covering 1928-1930, follows his first adventures. These strips are masterpieces of comic invention. Fantagraphics' Popeye will collect the complete run of Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip (dailies and color Sundays) featuring Popeye, re-establishing Segar as one of the first rank of cartoonists who have elevated the comic strip to art. He was the most popular cartoonist of his day, his sense of humor coming straight out of Mark Twain, who also balanced exaggerated tall tales and a perfect ear for everyday speech with dark themes that undercut his laugh-out-loud stories. In this first volume, covering 1928-1930, Popeye's initial courtship of Olive Oyl takes center stage while Olive's brother Castor Oyl discovers the mysterious Whiffle Hen. Also, the entire cast meets the Sea Hag for the first time in their pursuit of the "Mystery House" (Popeye's first extended daily narrative), and Castor Oyl attempts to turn Popeye into a boxing champion in a series of hilarious Sunday strips. These strips are masterpieces of comic invention. Popeye's omnipotence pre-figures the rise of superheroes in the 1930s and 1940s, though Popeye is a much more sympathetic character, and his very name announces his vibrant personality. His mangled English pulsated with the vital spirit of immigrant America, its rhythm poetic in its own vulgar way: "I yam what I yam and tha's all I yam."
2007 Eisner Award nominee: Best Archival Collection/Project: Strips; and Best Publication Design (Jacob Covey); 2007 Harvey Award nominee: Best Domestic Reprint Project; Special Award for Excellence in Presentation; Winner: HOW Magazine Design Merit Awards: Covers Color and black-and-white comics.
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This essential collection of Elzie Segar's 1928-30 "Thimble Theatre" comic strips marked the hilarious debut of Popeye the Sailor - popular culture's first superhero. Initially a supporting character, the lovably gruff individualist became a dominant force in Segar's surreal universe. Published in 2006, "I Yam What I Yam" includes a memorable introduction by Jules Feiffer (who is rather dismissive of the spinach-fortified Fleischer cartoons). The first volume definitely whets one's appetite for ... Read More
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The book is more than I expected. Pages and Pages of strips! And the story behind the story is amazing. We've always been Popeye fans...since childhood. The adoration grows when we read this book as adults!
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What makes this first volume great is that it doesn't start with Popeye's first appearance but weeks before. Really neat to see Thimble Theatre without Popeye in it. Makes me wanna see volumes of all pre-Popeye Thimble Theatre strips.
Segar showed himself a grade-A cartoonist even before the famous Sailor Man entered the picture :)
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As much as I respect the old Fleicher Studios for producing some wonderful Popeye cartoons that became an integral part of establishing him as a worldwide phenomenon I think they did him no favor in moving him into an urban environment. Popeye is at his very best, as a sailor, adventuring on the open seas. Nobody wrote or drew Popeye like Elzie Segar. Unfortunately, Mr. Segar passed away at the very young age of 43 having created Popeye a mere 9 years earlier. So what we have here is over a year ... Read More
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Be sure to eat not only spinach but lots of carrots before tackling this one.
Even so, you'll likely need a magnifying glass to read these strips. Who's bright idea was it to cram six strips onto a 10.5 x 14-inch page? It made for some serious squinting when I checked this out at my local comic book store.
And at 10.5 x 14-plus inches, this book hardly makes for cozy reading material.
Bad book design and layout have made what could have been more accessible ... Read More
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