E. C. Segar

Elzie Crisler Segar (also EC Segar, born December 8, 1894 in Chester, Illinois, † October 13, 1938 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American cartoonist and the creator of the character of Popeye. His works he signed with a cigar ( cigar english ) from which curled his name.

Life

Segar was born as the youngest of eight children. At 18, he decided to become a cartoonist. He married Myrtle Annie Johnson ( * 1895), with whom he had two children, Marie and Thomas (Tom ). After several years full of hardship, he got through the patronage of Richard Felton Outcault a job with the Herald in Chicago and recorded there, Charlie Chaplin's Comic Capers, until the series was discontinued in 1917.

From William Randolph Hearst Segar was brought to New York, where he was able to publish in 1919 the Daily strip Thimble Theatre in the New York Journal. Ten years later, in January 1929, debuted in this series as the way the grumpy sailor Popeye. Originally a secondary character, Popeye should dominate the series and soon lead to a major artistic and commercial success.

Buoyed by the seafarer, who also served as an outlet for Segar, it brought the artist in his profession finally to the championship. With its anarchic ideas and the quirky characters he added the Thimble Theatre by little, he exercised great influence on other members of the media. Variables such as Carl Barks or André Franquin designated his work as a source of inspiration.

Elzie Segar died at the age of only 43 years. The cause of death is usually given a liver cirrhosis, occasionally leukemia.

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