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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