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Fred Grandinetti: Talking With Popeye’s No. 1 Fan

…to get Fred’s perspective on the release and find out about his next Popeye project. After reading this new interview, read on for a review of Fred’s Popeye book, Popeye:…

Popeye: A Sailor’s Story

…in today’s lingo, a “pilot” was shot. Popeye was featured in a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon entitled (Betty Boop Presents) Popeye The Sailor. The cartoon featured Popeye, Olive, and newly…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938

…Oyl is legendary in these cartoons. She typically starts out with either Popeye or Bluto, but always ends up with Popeye…. Well, almost always. In Barnacle Bill, Popeye proposes to…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940

…only Popeye and Olive and is, I think, self-explanatory. Popeye and Olive put together a vaudeville act, where Popeye imitates several prominent comedians, in Puttin On The Act. Popeye Meets…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 3 1941-1943

…became truly apparent just how rich this series really was. Far from the one-note Popeye vs. Bluto set-ups that the Popeye cartoons would later devolve into, it was a revelation…

Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!

…introduced to Woody Woodpecker and Popeye the Sailor? JB: Like everybody else, on television. You know, Popeye was the biggest character of the 1930s – people forget that. They remember…

Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy

…starts, Pappy is seen being chased by a near-sentient storm and sharks. Popeye tries to rescue him, but fails. Popeye wakes up from his dream at that point, with a…

Popeye (live-action movie)

Popeye series continued, a low point being the TV episodes created in the 50s and 60s, before he found new fame in the Hanna-Barbera produced All New Popeye Show in…

Popeye 75th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

…was not the only voice to follow Popeye to television. Jack Mercer was still Popeye, just as he still would be for Hanna-Barbera years later. He ended up doing Popeye

Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons

Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons By Fred M. Grandinetti BearManor Media January 28, 2022 230 pages Hardcover $35, Softcover $25 There are Popeye cartoons, and then there are…

I Yam What I Yam…Popeye's here!

…DVD! Take your pick: • Popeye: A Sailor’s Story – looks back on Popeye’s creation by Elzie Segar for the Thimble Theater comic strip and takes in the sailor man’s…

CGI Popeye sailing to television

Via Variety, Coming Soon! reports that Billy West and Kathy Bates will provide the voices of Popeye and his archenemy Sea Hag/Siren in Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy, a…

Empire State Building Turns Green to Celebrate Popeye's 75th Birthday

…the silver screen in a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon produced by Max Fleischer’s legendary Fleischer Studios entitled Popeye the Sailor. Popeye fans will be glad to know that work is…

"Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for a Good Review"

Jim Hill Media looks at the Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy DVD. Giving the movie a positive review, the site comments, “In spite of its flaws, is Popeye’s Voyage…

POPEYE!!!

There’s just one new thing to report today, but it’s the one you’ve been waiting for: our review of the fantastic new Popeye The Sailor: Volume One DVD set! I…

Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!

…it’s then playing on ABC again a month or so later…! As promised last week, Rand’s dropped in with a full review for this summer’s release of Popeye The Sailor:…

Popeye: The 75th Anniversary Collection review

At Cartoon Research, Popeye fan club president Fred Grandinetti provides a negative review of the Popeye: The 75th Anniversary Collection DVD set. His verdict is, “For those who remember watching…

New Trailer for Popeye's Voyage

…man and Kathy Bates is Popeye’s notorious nemesis, the villainous Sea Hag/Siren. Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy is scheduled for release on 11/09/2004, with a retail tag of $19.98….

Classic \\Popeye\\, rare Charley Bowers shorts added to the National Film Registry

…\\Tin Toy\\ and Warner Brothers’ \\One Froggy Evening\\. Of \\Popeye\\, the NFR release says: “Wildly popular during the 1930s, Popeye’s impact was matched only by Mickey Mouse, his chief rival…

New interview, Robinsons promising for Disney, more Treasures, Popeye is coming

…then, the REALLY big announcement…The first volume of Popeye The Sailor Man was officially announced this week by Warner Home Video. TV Shows On DVD has the best summary of…

Under the sea with Robert Reece; plus yuletide Shrek, more Popeye and new disc announcements!

…can we look forward to this fall? Well… • Rand’s got his take on the second volume of classic Popeye cartoons coming up next week, but just confirmed by Warners…

New Popeye special: first image and plot

…and producer. In Popeye’s Voyage: The Search for Pappy, the updated Popeye will hunt for his dad and confront relationship issues. For example, Reiser asks, ‘with a woman in his…

Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940 Volume Two DVD in June

DVDActive reports that Warner Home Video has announced the release of Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940 Volume Two on dvd. The 2-disc set will include 31 uncut and remastered shorts and…

More WALL•E, plus Tink, Popeye, Clone Wars and happy birthday Mickey!

…the disc’s tech specs and extras, suggesting a rental for Disney fans. He’s much more juiced – of course! – by the third collection of Fleischer shorts in Popeye The…

EXCLUSIVE! Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and more!

With Animated Views, animation historian Jerry Beck discusses his work on The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection and Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Volume 1, as well as some…

Popeye returning to the big screen

…writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn penning the script. “Popeye has been my childhood favorite character,” said Spider-Manmovie producer Avi Arad. “To me he was always the everyday man who…

Popeye to combine best of the old with the new

Popeye. “Basically it’s kind of taking the Popeye that I grew up with, that I think we all grew up with, and definitely making him contemporary — but still retaining…

Popeye heads back to the big screen in CGI and 3D

Sony is all set to bring Popeye the Sailor Man back to the big screen by giving him the CGI and 3D treatment, reports Collider via Variety. With Avi Arad…

Crazy triple bill: Popeye, The Simpsons, and 300 Spartans!??!

Things couldn’t get any better today as the Popeye: 1933-1938 Collection finally comes to DVD and is in stores right now for you classic cartoon nuts to go and pick…

Popeye & Friends DVD art

TV Shows On DVD features the cover art for the recently announced Popeye & Friends: Volume 1. The single-disc release will cost $14.95 and will be available for purchase on…