IN THIS EPISODE: Here are four books about comic strips so you cans where Popeye came from, and other strips you can get inspiration from. Old comic strips are great for looking at and studying different styles of drawing and writing to get you started on your own comic strip or short film. Notice how Popeye looks like the animated version from the Fleischer Studio, but with modifications to make him work for animation. Anyway, this video is to introduce you to the history of the American newspaper comic strips.
I’ve always had an interest in comic strips and comic book histories. I think you can look through some old books like these, or websites with the same information, and see what came before you. It’s a great trip with Peabody and Sherman in the Wayback Machine.

Here is the list of books shown in this video.

The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics
   1977
   Bill Blackbeard and Martin T. Williams
   Smithsonian Institution Press ISBN 0-87474-172-6

America’s Great Comic Strip Artists
   1989
    Richard Marschall
    A Roundtable Press Book, Published by Abbeville    Press  ISBN 0-89659-917-5

The Complete E.C. Sugar Popeye Volume Eight Dailies 1932-1934
     1988
     Rick Marschall
     Fantagraphics Books
     ISBN 0-930193-84-5  

E.C.Segar’s Popeye Plunder Island
     2009
     Fantagraphics Books
     ISBN 978-1-60699-169-5