But there is a town, other than Chester, which has made the claim of being the birth place of Popeye – Santa Monica, California, where E.C. Segar moved after having lived in places like Chicago and ...

Popeye is violent, impulsive, possibly racist and doesn’t care at all for the kids he is pretending to entertain. He’s a pug-faced curmudgeon with an alcohol problem and he is a bad Santa to boot.

The easy thing to do with Popeye is have him kill a bunch of teenagers. That's what a few filmmakers did with Mickey Mouse last year, when the first version of Walt Disney's moneymaking rodent ...