It
was 106 years ago today that it all began in 1919 when E.C. Segar
debuted his comic strip THIMBLE THEATRE featuring Olive Oyl and her
boyfriend Ham Gravy, her parents Cole
and Nana Oyl, and conniving brother Castor Oyl. It wouldn't be for
another ten years until Popeye entered the picture. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO
OLIVE OYL!
Today's
comic strip couldn't have been done without a conversation that I had
with my wife Jennifer McCullar. Thank you sweetheart. And thank you to
own my own mother Linda McCullar who has told me countless times how she
feels VERY young in her own heart and not her age. Thanks, Mama.
Also,
though embellished on my own, I want to acknowledge that some of
Olive's expressions in the drawings from today's comic strip were
inspired and taken from looking at E.C. Segar's drawings and the Popeye
cartoon model sheet done out of respect and homage. Oh yeah, Olive
blowing heart-shaped kisses inspired courtesy of the Nintendo arcade
game that I spent many quarters on back in the day.
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