From September, Fantagraphics will be publishing a complete reprint of Popeye’s comic strip appearances from Thimble Theater. Good News for Retro cartoon and comic fans, If you don’t remember Popeye, he was the one that used to eat Spinach to get extra strength and magically get extra big muscles to save the love of his life. It was one of many great cartons from my childhood and this is a fitting collection. This is what someone from Fantagraphics has said:

Six volumes, hardcover. Same size, more or less, as the original Fanta books from long ago (the big Sunday ones). Each book contains half dailies (six to a page) and half Sundays (in color), except for the first which is 3/4 dailies (because Popeye was a co-star in the dailies for more than a year before he showed up in the Thimble Theatre Sundays). Dailies in the front of the book, Sundays in the back (since there is no cross-continuity.) One every six months. We’ve got all the Sundays for the first volume scanned and are working our way through the dailies even as I speak. Introduction and annotations by Bill Blackbeard. A later book will contain a non-strip Segar POPEYE sequence that so far as I know has never been reprinted.

Other series’ that will be printed are Krazy Kat, Peanuts and Dennis the Menace. Each of the reprints will come with DVD-style extras such as commentary. [link via Four Color Comics]

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