*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Features writer {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The scene ...

Popeye is back and he's got his dancing shoes on. Wilco released their new music video for "Dawned On Me" Wednesday, and it features the muscled sailor in his first new hand-drawn cartoon in more than ...

It’s spinach-picking season, and it occurred to me that for many Americans of my vintage, the most lasting childhood association with spinach may have nothing to do with the dinner table. I cannot ...

Back in 1919, illustrator E.C. Seegar was asked to create a cartoon for the New York Journal. He titled it: Thimble Theatre. The lead characters were Olive Oyl, her brother Castor Oyl and Olive's ...

You might know Popeye the Sailor from trawling YouTube for clips of theatrical cartoons from between the 1930s and the 1950s. You might know him from the handful of television series' built around him ...

AFTER DATING FOR MOST OF THE CENTURY, Popeye AND Olive Oyl already act like a married couple: they're always together and they bicker. But to celebrate his 70th birthday, the one-eyed spinach-munching ...

If Popeye were still a pop-culture icon, the recent E. coli outbreak would do to his career what text-messaging congressional pages has done to someone else’s. Imagine, if you will, our hero Popeye ...

Well, they were based on real people. When Elzie Segar introduced Popeye in a 1929 comic strip, he drew his inspiration for the sailor from a character from his hometown of Chester, Illinois – a ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...