CBR: EXCLUSIVE: Roger Langridge Scraps with "Popeye"

[CBR News]

CBR News spoke exclusively with acclaimed cartoonist Roger Langridge about writing the April-debuting "Popeye," IDW Publishing's new series starring Segar's most famous creation.


Full article here.

[Leocomix]

Popeye has been interpreted as an allegory for the US military power.
I hope Langridge will write a multi-level comic.

I can't recommend enough that people check the Segar originals.

[Angilas-Man]

I'm an enormous Popeye fan (the comics, the Fleischer cartoons, even the Altman film) and I'm extraordinarily happy with this creative team! I had gotten rather impatient about just when news would break on this title (announced last summer), but indeed good things come to those who wait.

[AdamYJ]

I can't recommend enough that people check the Segar originals.

I'd like to, but I don't know which collection to start with. After all, sometimes it's better to get book 2 first because the series might start off kind of slow.

Which one would you reccomend?

[Angilas-Man]

^I'd go with book 2. By then Popeye has really grown into his now iconic character and he's firmly become the strip's lead. Also, I think the addition of Popeye was really the shot in the arm Segar needed creatively, as the stories in book 2 are in my opinion far superior to the ones in the first book where Popeye spends most of the time as Castor Oyl's sidekick.

[CMBMOOL]

YES!!!

Now this is news i can enjoy.

I mean if Roger Langridge using the same magic he used on Thor and the Muppet Show, then Popeye is truly in good hands.

[Jeff O.]

I guess the car's a lemon.

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What will be the IMPACT! of your next music video, dude?

[EMeadow]

Its apparently a 4 issue mini according to Diamond's website.

[Johnny P. Sartre]

I'M OUT OF THIS WORLD EXCITED! Grew up reading and watching Popeye, so reading this is going such a treat. It's being done Langridge who did an amazing job with Thor and I love his Fred The Clown series.

[Angilas-Man]

Its apparently a 4 issue mini according to Diamond's website.

Hmmm.... maybe strong sales can get an ongoing started.

[Angilas-Man]

... or maybe four issues was all they could get the busy Langridge to commit to and there's a possibility of more stuff by different creative teams in the pipeline?

[MacQuarrie]

"Thimble Theatre" became one of King Features' most popular strips throughout the 1930s, continuing after Segar's death in 1939 under the hand of several different artists until Segar's former assistant Bud Sagendorf took the reins in 1959, continuing the daily strip until 1986 and the Sunday until his own death in 1994. Since then, Hy Eisman has helmed the Sunday strips, while the daily has featured reprints of Sagendorf's material since 1992.

This is a flat-out lie, a piece of historic revisionism.

Bobby London drew Popeye for six years, from 1986 to 1992.

[Angilas-Man]

.... Soooo, I haven't check Langridge's blog in a few weeks, so this is old (but new to me) news:

http://www.hotelfred.com/

Basically: Tom Neely will share art duties on Popeye, and (despite some reports that it's a four issue miniseries) Langridge is under the assumption that it's ongoing!