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REMINDER – POPEYE MEETS SINDBAD

After the Comic-con, on Monday night (7/26) at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, …

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FLEISCHER POPEYE PENCIL TEST

FOX has just scheduled the all-new half-hour CGI special “Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy” for telecast on Sunday, Dec. 19. King …

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POPEYE IN THE HOOD…

…and on the side doors, and in the rear view mirror.NASCAR drivers Jeremy Mayfield (#19) and Casey Kahne (#9) are driving Popeye 75th …

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POPEYE’S VOYAGE

Brew reader Tom Giatras took some pictures (click pic 1 and pic 2) and sends this report from the New York Licensing Show:Just came back …

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POPEYE ON DVD – PART 2

As long as I’m on a rant about POPEYE on DVD, allow me to shamelessly plug a brand new release from the friendly folks at VCI …

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POPEYE ON DVD?

Fleischer POPEYENo, not yet.King Features has released a dvd boxed set of 1960s Popeye cartoons – some of the worst cartoons ever made. …

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CARTOONS AT THE ACADEMY – PART 1

During 2002 and 2003, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ran a weekly series, every Monday night for 75 weeks, each week one …

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VINTON’S POPEYE

Animator Joel Brinkerhoff sent us some models for the POPEYE CG special when it was in development at Will Vinton Studios last year. …

Jim Tyer animation of Popeye
Animator Spotlight

Animator Spotlight: Jim Tyer

Tyer's crude drawings and off-kilter movements can give the impression of being slapdash, but like a great jazz musician improvises around a melody, Tyer expertly bent and stretched his characters with a playful sense of experimentation.

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