Popeye the Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons – New Book Charts the Animated History of Popeye
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Popeye and Olive Oyl from The Super Duper Market (Jack Kinney, 1960)
Popeye the Sailor historian, Fred M. Grandinetti, has written a new publication on the spinach-eater’s color cartoons from the early 1960’s: Popeye the Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons.
Due to the increasing demand for Popeye cartoons King Features Syndicate farmed out production to different animation studios.
Grandinetti explained, “When I watched these as a child I did not notice the numerous animation errors. To me, and many other children, it was just more Popeye to watch. As I grew into my teens I questioned why Popeye’s pipe kept vanishing without him taking it out of his mouth. I also wondered why the same scenes were reused over and over again. Because these films lacked time and money the animation in several is sloppy. However, many are quite enjoyable to watch with no glitches in the animation. It really depends which individuals worked on a particular cartoon. I was getting tired of critics painting the entire series with a bad brush and wanted to set the record straight.
Fred Grandinetti
with new book “Popeye the Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons”
These cartoons introduced generations of children to characters first introduced in the sailor’s comic strip including; The Sea Hag, Rough House, King Blozo, Alice the Goon ,Toar and Geezil. We also saw a lot more of Eugene the Magical Jeep, who came from the 4th dimension.
Several plotlines, used in these television cartoons, were pulled straight out of the comic strips from the 1930’s.
These films were very successful financially and increased the production of Popeye merchandise during the 1960’s.
The book is available from Amazon and published by BearManor Media.