Popeye is back and he's got his dancing shoes on. Wilco released their new music video for "Dawned On Me" Wednesday, and it features the muscled sailor in his first new hand-drawn cartoon in more than ...

First Popeye was selected to front a a sex shop in Tokyo. Now, who better to represent a line of products using Extra Virgin Olive Oil than… the extra virginal Olive Oyl. Reader John Hall sent in this ...

Among the observations to be gleaned from a new volume edited by Peter Maresca, “Thimble Theater and the Pre-Popeye Comics of E.C. Segar,” is that Olive Oyl was not always a paragon of gangly ...

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Foggy Ruins of Time is a feature that provides the cultural context behind certain comic book characters/behaviors. You know, the sort of then-topical references that have faded into the “foggy ruins ...

In a recent forums thread on this very site, someone saw my avatar and compared me to "olive oil." The comment, I think, was meant to be derisive – a dig at my lanky physique. My initial thought was, ...

This is one in a series of vignettes celebrating Kansas history. The series’ name comes from the state motto, Ad astra per aspera: “To the stars through difficulties.” Marilyn Schreffler’s name may ...

It is no surprise that Popeye the Sailor Man’s main squeeze — Olive Oyl — would one day end up on the stage. L’il Abner, Peanuts and Doonesbury, after all, were turned into Broadway musicals. There ...