Fred M. Grandinetti joins Joe Bev for an hour of some of his favorite Popeye cartoons from Max Fleischer, Famous Studios, King Features and Hanna-Barbera. The show is co-hosted by Popeye and Olive Oyl (voiced Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg).Fred M. Grandinetti (born May 1, 1961, in Watertown, Massachusetts) is an American author, noted Popeye connoisseur and founding member of the Official Popeye Fan Club. He has written several books on the subject, including: "Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History"; "Popeye, the Collectible: Dolls, Coloring Books, Games, Toys, Comic Books, Animation"; "Popeye: An Illustrated History of E.C. Segar's Character in Print, Radio, Television, and Film Appearances 1929-1993"; and "He Am What He Am!: Jack Mercer, the Voice of Popeye". Grandinetti is also the host of the (often Popeye-featuring) television show Drawing With Fred.Popeye the Sailor Man is a cartoon fictional character, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and theatrical and television animated cartoons. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929; Popeye became the strip's title in later years.Although Segar's Thimble Theatre strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, the sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip and Thimble Theatre soon became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. Thimble Theatre was continued after Segar's death in 1938 by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip continues to appear in first-run installments in its Sunday edition, written and drawn by Hy Eisman. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories.In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and the Fleischers—and later Paramount's own Famous Studios—continued production through 1957. These cartoon shorts are now owned by Turner Entertainment, a subsidiary of Time Warner, and distributed by sister company Warner Bros. Entertainment.Over the years, Popeye has also appeared in comic books, television cartoons, arcade and video games, hundreds of advertisements[citation needed] and peripheral products (ranging from spinach to candy cigarettes), and the 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman that starred comedian Robin Williams as Popeye.In 2002, TV Guide ranked Popeye #20 on its "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" list.As the protege of cartoon voice legend Daws Butler (Yogi Bear), Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev.), the veteran award-winning broadcaster (NPR, XM Radio) is no stranger to the cartoon world. Joe Bev even co-authored his mentor's authorized biography, "Daws Butler, Characters Actor", available at BearManorMedia.Com. Comedy-O-Rama Podcast on iTuneshttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-comedy-o-rama-hour/id572142422
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