If only I lived in Spain! That Grillo Popeye exhibit looks amazing - I wish I could have attended.

It’s great reading news about our favorite one-eyed sailor-man so often!

Recalling the stove gag in Popeye’s “Can You Take It” after seeing that one of the songs in “Scandals” was “You Nasty Man”.

That’s Oscar Grillo in the photo? I thought it was Buck Henry.

From the exhibit page:
The Palacio de la Merced will be the venue for an exhibition specially put together by Oscar Grillo for Animacor’07. “Drawing the Sailor Man� is this artist’s view of the famous character invented by Max Fleischer

Let’s get it right, folks..ELISE SEGAR invented the character. Fleischer may have developed/adapted the animated version, But the sailor wouldn’t have been here at all if not for Segar

Mr policeman of small distractions, the name was ELZIE.

Good catch, Chris.

With all respect, Mr. Grillo, getting the creator’s name wrong for such a celebrated cartoon character is more than a minor slip-up.

Your work looks fantastic though, and the gallery space is incredible. That diamond-tiled floor would be a lot of competition most types of art, but goes quite nicley with the piece pictured above. I wish I could see the whole thing.

My apologies, Mr. Grillo. apparently I type faster than my Brain does. I meant no respect to your and your exhibit .
As they say, “Close, but no Segar”

I did it again. I meant to say I meant no DISrespect…again, sorry.

Jerry writes: “This rare original newspaper ad demonstrates that block booking was not always in practice during the golden age - that a cartoon from one studio could (and often did) play with a feature from another studio.”

And, I might add, in a theater owned by yet ANOTHER studio. Fox feature + Paramount short playing in a Loew’s (M-G-M) theater!