INTRODUCTION: Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, and first first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Popeye will go on to later appear in theatrical and animated cartoons. In 1933, Max Fleischer adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of 'Popeye the Sailor' theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures- which proved to be extremely popular and continued production