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Article: A comic culture: Series illustrates America's long love affair with cartoon strips.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 14, 1997
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Elzie Crisler Segar was a slight, bespectacled Midwesterner. His favorite hobby was skeet shooting, and he was pretty good at it - he even showed Clark Gable how to shoot.
Whenever the quiet Segar would meet a stranger, though, and the question of occupation would come up, he could get boiling mad. Segar was a cartoonist, and usually people would laugh, surprised that anyone could make money drawing funny pictures.
"Little did that person know that even in the 1930s, Segar was making well into six figures," recalls his assistant, Bud Sagendorf.
Segar drew Popeye the Sailor, the star of the strip "Thimble Theatre." Not only did it provide ...