Just over a year ago, I began collecting actual newspaper Sunday comic and daily strips of POPEYE that were published from the years 1938 to 1946 after the premature death of Popeye's original creator E.C. Segar in 1938. Since then, I'm now well into the 1950's material.
Before that, I had never even seen or read the POPEYE comic strips with the Tom Sims (writer), Doc Winner (artist), Bill "Bela" Zeboly (artist), and Ralph Stein (writer) circa that twenty-year period between 1938-1958. Some of these comic strips are reprinted through the Official Popeye Fanclub in their newsletter. There is also an "underground" provider of "Lost Popeye" era comics that I've found some of the strips that I am missing that were pulled from online archived newspapers.
I enjoy reading and collecting these as a fan, but it also has helped in my own research to work on these SEA SHANTY FUNNIES... even with this being my "own take" in my own alternate little Popeye public domain universe (that by the way, I am nicknaming my own little Sea Shanty Funniesverse "Earth-24C" to go along with the Thrill Seeker Comics universe that is "Earth-24" in the Indieversity Project Universe. Not that you needed to know that). I digress.
It has been pretty exciting to see and read. All great stuff. I've purchased some portfolios and I've been placing and curating them carefully in those. I thought I would (re)share these pics as I thought some of you might be interested in seeing them.
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