Created by the American cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar and brought to the screen by Dave and Max Fleischer, he first appeared on January 17, 1929, and since then his success has never waned. In 2019, Popeye turned 90 years old: with that pipe perpetually in his mouth, that slightly squinty eye under the sailor's hat, that anchor tattooed on his muscular arm, that can of spinach always ready to be gulped down to fight with Bluto, that tall and skinny girlfriend Olive Oyl, he has captivated the audience from the very beginning. And he has made millions of children willingly consume the spinach responsible for the sailor's "strong arm": in the 1930s, consumption increased by 30%, prompting the growers of Crystal City, Texas, and the industrialists of Arkansas to erect two statues in his honor.