Great video, Segar is one the greats in the early history of comics and was even overshadowed by his creation, I love to hear these insights about the person and his creative process
Segar is the greatest cartoonist of all time in my book. I saw that pic online of the Sea Hag/Goon painting awhile back and it blew my mind. Thanks for this!
I really enjoyed your video. I was introduced to E.C. Segar through “America’s Great Comic Strips” by Richard Marshall. I’d always loved Popeye, but never really thought about his creator. I really admire you for documenting this incredible artist, and preserving his legacy. My sister is good friends with Michael Tissarand pronounced “tissa- rand” (like Rand McNally)”. She gave me a copy of Krazy, and he gave me a copy of My Father When Young which documents his father Jerry Tissarand’s photography. I definitely want to read more of Segar’s work thanks to you. I had no idea of his other comics, or his home, or childhood. Thanks for creating this great resource.
Thanks, Gil! I appreciate you taking the time to let me know. Michael and I are pals and I actually have a small bit in the paperback edition of Krazy (I conduct the interview with Tisserandmcnally in the back of the book). For more on E.C. Segar as well as 14 other fascinating cartoonists, see my book Screwball! The Cartoonist Who Made the Funnies Funny.
Thank You for an interesting and informative video. Your enthusiasm for this subject matter shines. If You have other subject material that You feel as passionate about by all means share it on video. Kind of like putting out a zine in the old days.
Ha, I sure can relate to the time, sweat, eye-strain, library diving, full-blooded microfilm-rolling, sore-necked keyboard -hunching, phone-calling, note piling etc-ing etc-ing involved in the kind of work ya musta totally-obviously put into your work here (I do a lot of older movie research--especially the lower-budgeted ones the behind-scenes stories of which were seldom preserved) . Had fun listening to this and will look for your book. As, also, a non-red-meat eater who would gladly pay you next Tuesday for a hamburger today, I find that frying up a couple of Beyond Burgers or Impossible burgers in Olive Oyl (of course), and onions is quite satisfying to the most extreme of Wimpy's burger demands (yes, all put into sesame seed bun and topped with honey mustard and pickles)....Well, just a suggestion! (now, having mentioned all that Imma now forced to head to the kitchen where i'll be pulling out all that stuff at this ungodly hour. Wimpy commands me....so, off I go! Thanks for the video. (If I smoked Segars I'd 'ave one of those too!)
It's too bad Segar only wrote and drew Popeye for roughly ten years(1/17/29...8/27/38).It says a lot for his imagination and creations that many people still know Popeye.:-)
Great video, Segar is one the greats in the early history of comics and was even overshadowed by his creation, I love to hear these insights about the person and his creative process
Thank you! I have more things to share about Elzie. Hoping to write a biography someday.
This was great! thank you! Keep them coming if you can! Would love to hear more stories :D
Very cool. Especially about Segar's paintings and about how Segar mentored Sagendorf. It's been a while since I read that. Thank you for sharing.
Segar is the greatest cartoonist of all time in my book. I saw that pic online of the Sea Hag/Goon painting awhile back and it blew my mind. Thanks for this!
Great video! Thanks, Paul!
I really enjoyed your video. I was introduced to E.C. Segar through “America’s Great Comic Strips” by Richard Marshall. I’d always loved Popeye, but never really thought about his creator. I really admire you for documenting this incredible artist, and preserving his legacy.
My sister is good friends with Michael Tissarand pronounced “tissa- rand” (like Rand McNally)”. She gave me a copy of Krazy, and he gave me a copy of My Father When Young which documents his father Jerry Tissarand’s photography.
I definitely want to read more of Segar’s work thanks to you. I had no idea of his other comics, or his home, or childhood. Thanks for creating this great resource.
Thanks, Gil! I appreciate you taking the time to let me know. Michael and I are pals and I actually have a small bit in the paperback edition of Krazy (I conduct the interview with Tisserandmcnally in the back of the book). For more on E.C. Segar as well as 14 other fascinating cartoonists, see my book Screwball! The Cartoonist Who Made the Funnies Funny.
Loved it!
Thank You for an interesting and informative video. Your enthusiasm for this subject matter shines. If You have other subject material that You feel as passionate about by all means share it on video. Kind of like putting out a zine in the old days.
Thank you Jeff! Coming from a fellow zinester from the old daze, that means a lot!
Ha, I sure can relate to the time, sweat, eye-strain, library diving, full-blooded microfilm-rolling, sore-necked keyboard -hunching, phone-calling, note piling etc-ing etc-ing involved in the kind of work ya musta totally-obviously put into your work here (I do a lot of older movie research--especially the lower-budgeted ones the behind-scenes stories of which were seldom preserved) . Had fun listening to this and will look for your book.
As, also, a non-red-meat eater who would gladly pay you next Tuesday for a hamburger today, I find that frying up a couple of Beyond Burgers or Impossible burgers in Olive Oyl (of course), and onions is quite satisfying to the most extreme of Wimpy's burger demands (yes, all put into sesame seed bun and topped with honey mustard and pickles)....Well, just a suggestion! (now, having mentioned all that Imma now forced to head to the kitchen where i'll be pulling out all that stuff at this ungodly hour. Wimpy commands me....so, off I go!
Thanks for the video.
(If I smoked Segars I'd 'ave one of those too!)
Very nice
I watched the whole thing!
Paul, do you know when the first instance of Popeye saying, "I am what I am" occurred?
It's too bad Segar only wrote and drew Popeye for roughly ten years(1/17/29...8/27/38).It says a lot for his imagination and creations that many people still know Popeye.:-)