Elsie Chrysler Cigar (December 8, 1894, Chester , Illinois - October 13, 1938, Santa Monica , California ) was an American comic book artist, best known as the creator in 1929 of the seaman Popaya .
| Elsie Chrysler Cigar | |
|---|---|
| English Elzie Crisler Segar | |
 | |
| Date of Birth | December 8, 1894 |
| Place of Birth | Chester , Illinois |
| Date of death | October 13, 1938 (43 years) |
| Place of death | Santa Monica , California |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Direction | painter |
| Famous work | Sailor Popeye |
Biography
He was born in the family of a laborer, since childhood he helped his father as a painter and upholsterer. Subsequently, he learned to play drums and worked as a drummer on vaudeville and as a projectionist [1] . At the age of 18, he decided to become a comic book artist, and for this, after his earlier work was not accepted by the newspapers, he completed a corresponding course in Cleveland , Ohio .
After moving to Chicago , he met Richard Outcolt , who helped him settle in the Chicago Herald , where in 1916 his first comic book about Charlie Chaplin (published before 1917) was published. In 1918, he moved to the Chicago Evening American newspaper, owned by tycoon Randalph Hirst, where he was soon transferred to the New York New York Journal , where he worked for many years. For this newspaper, he began to draw the Thimble Theater comic, where Olive Oil and some other characters of future stories about sailor Popay appeared in 1919 and Popeye himself in 1929.
He died in 1938 from leukemia and liver disease.
Notes
- β Adam Gabbatt . EC Segar, Popeye's creator, celebrated with a Google doodle , London: Guardian (December 8, 2009). The appeal date is May 12, 2011.
Links
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Segar, Elsi Chrysler
- EC Segar by Ed Black
- An article in the Encyclopedia Britannica