Before Popeye Became a Comic Strip Staple, He Enlivened Cartoonist E.C. Segar’s ‘Thimble Theater’
Segar was honing a cockeyed brand of wordplay and a fascination with the grotesque, both of which have earned him comparisons to Dickens and W.C. Fields.

‘Thimble Theater and the Pre-Popeye Comics of E.C. Segar‘
Edited by Peter Maresca
Fantagraphics, 156 pages
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