Popeye the Sailor is a fictional hero notable for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous television shows. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar, and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Popeye has now become the series' title as well. Although Segar's Thimble Theatre strip, first published on December 19, 1919, was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, the sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. Thimble Theatre was carried on after Segar's death in 1938 by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip, now titled Popeye, continues to appear in first-run installments in its Sunday edition, written and drawn by Hy Eisman. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories.
In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and the Fleischers—and later Paramount's own Famous Studios—continued production through 1957. The cartoons are now owned by Warner Bros. Animation and Turner Entertainment by way of King Features.
Since then, Popeye has appeared in comic books, television cartoons, arcade and video games, hundreds of advertisements and peripheral products, and a 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman starring comedian Robin Williams as Popeye.
On January 1, 2009, 70 years since the death of his creator, Segar's character of Popeye (though not the various films, TV shows, theme music and other media based on him) became public domain in most countries, but remains under copyright in the United States.
大力水手，即卜派（Popeye the Sailor Man），是美國的漫畫人物。大力水手出現於1929年1月17日的美國《Thimble Theatre》連環漫畫，創造人是來自美國伊利諾州徹斯特鎮的連環漫畫家E·C·西格[1]，大力水手漫畫甫一問世即大受歡迎，甚至在當地出現食用菠菜的熱潮。1933年由Fleischer Studios拍成卡通電影短片，交由派拉蒙電影公司（Paramount）發行，風靡全球。Fleischer Studios拍了108集，1942年改由派拉蒙自己的動畫部門Famous Studios自行拍攝，至1957年停止，拍了126集。1960年推出電視卡通。卜派是個獨眼且不修邊幅的水手，愛抽煙斗，愛打拳擊，他有個麻煩的女友名叫奧莉薇（Olive Oyl），經常需要卜派保護。卜派總是在吃完一罐菠菜之後，就會力大無窮，擊敗壞人兼情敵的笨驢布魯托（Bluto），這是大力水手卡通中最經典的一幕。1938年西格去世，這部系列連環漫畫由貝拉·沙波利（Bela Zaboly）和湯姆·西姆斯（Tomsims）接棒；1958年再由巴德·沙根道爾夫（Bud Sagendorf）接替，歷久不衰，曾在全球五百家報紙連載，出品過數百部動畫卡通。1999年卜派和奧莉芙結束歷時70年的「愛情長跑」，有情人終成眷屬。
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