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Popeye Animators ID

Popeye-lovers unite! The new classic Popeye DVD has ignited a long dormant interest in the East coast animators of the Max Fleischer …

Cartoon Culture

Popeye the Sewer-man

Brew reader Jim Arnold sent in this shot of a remarkable Popeye rip-off mascot he spotted on a van in Syracuse, New York last week. Says …

Cartoon Culture

Popeye Bonus Material

Here’s a couple of odds and ends that won’t be found on any Popeye DVD collection anytime soon… Sounds like Jackson Beck Allen …

Classic

Popeye Song Folio

One of the best pieces of Fleischer Popeye memoribilia ever created was a 32 page compilation of sheet music, the Popeye Song Folio, …

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Popeye Beer ad

Please forgive all these Popeye and Woody Woodpecker posts, but here’s a YouTube find I had to share: a 1980s British Carling Black Label …

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Woody and Popeye

Next week the Popeye collection goes on sale. While we wait, here are two recent vintage commercials that didn’t quite make it as …

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Popeye Update

Once again, the original title from Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves. This time I was able to grab the frame from the DVD …

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Popeye DVD: Bonus Materials

This is the original main title, unseen for 70 years, to Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves, shot with my cel phone camera …

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Popeye lives!

…and you thought the early Disney character costumes were ugly? Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy arrive for a performance of the Broadway …

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Vintage Cartoon Articles

Charles Shopsin has been semi-regularly posting old articles on early cartoon production, from 1920s-1930s science and mechanics …

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Popeye DVD

Here it comes! The first official release of the classic Max Fleischer cartoons on DVD, from Warner Home Video (who own the master …

Cartoon Culture

Popeye Paté

As a follow-up to yesterday’s image of Mickey Mouse Liver Paste, Brew reader Michael Levine sent in this picture of Popeye Paté …

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Popeye Inking Chart

Here. Practice your inking skills with this 1934 Popeye Inking Chart direct, via a time warp, from the Fleischer Studios. And don’t …

Old Brew

3-D CARTOON FESTIVAL

I’m telling you for the last time! Tomorrow afternoon, Saturday September 16th at 3:30pm, a once in a lifetime screening of all six …

Old Brew

POPEYE ON DVD

Here’s the news I’ve been dying to announce for over 20 years.Warner Bros. and King Features have come to an agreement – at long last – …

Old Brew

TOBY BLUTH DOES POPEYE & BETTY BOOP

The Great American Ink animation gallery in Brentwood, CA has commissioned animation artist and director Toby Bluth (brother of Don) to …

Old Brew

POPEYE RESTORATION AT MOMA

New Yorkers: DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!The Museum Of Modern Art (as part of their annual film preservation festival) will be screening a fully …

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