Thanks to everyone for coming out to the Popeye's 80th
Birthday Party on November 7th at the AWWWmazing Place! Boutique in
the Southern Park Mall, Boardman, Ohio! The event was a success. You
shoulda seen the cool spinach can cake and cancer survivor kids smoking
corn cob pipes. !!!! WOW!!! What a great time everyone had with eating
cake and popcorn, watching Popeye cartoons, getting prizes, and of course,
hearing the R.O.C.c.K. Children's Choir sing!
A big thank you to artists Chris Yambar and George Brodrick
Jr. for creating and signing the newest official Popeye Picnic
comic book, and our appreciation to Nicole and Tim Fryfogle for making
the popcorn and helping with the theater and crowd control.
George
Broderick, Jr. and Chris Yambar
signing newest Popeye comic book in front of AWWWmazing Place! Boutique
For the first time in thirty years, the Popeye has reappeared
in a new comic book, due to the efforts of Chris Yambar. Chris created
the Popeye Picnic comic book for the annual Popeye festival
held every September in Chester, Illinois, the home of the Popeye comic
strip creater Elzie G. Segar. Life long, passionate fans of Popeye,
cartoonists George Broderick, Jr., and Ken Wheaton drew sections of
the new comic book. Popeye newspaper strip creator Hy Eisman and comic
book artist George Wildman contributed pin-ups for the project.
The premium comic features 32 pages of original material
found nowhere else and is available only through A Way With Words Foundation
and Chris Yambar's Premium Pop company. In the Popeye Picnic
comic book, Popeye returns to his birthplace in Illinois and meets himself!
The story line honors the town and its citizens, who were the inspiration
for the original comic strip.
Proceeds from this event benefited the A Way With Words
Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping and encouraging children
cancer survivors and their families in the Mahoning Valley region.
Read press coverage of this and related events at:
"Popeye
Comic Event at Mall," Vindicator online, 5 November
2009
"Popeye
Returns Thanks to Youngstown Artist," Vindicator online,
6 September 2009
"Popeye
Comic Book To Be Released At Picinc," Popeyepicnic.com,
22 August 2009
Note: Popeye the Sailor and all related characters
are copyrighted by and the Registered Trademarks of King Features Inc.
and Hearst Holdings Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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