• Google doodle depicts Popeye eating spinach• 115th anniversary of E.C. Segar's birthdayElzie Crisler Segar might not be a household name, but the Popeye creator has become the latest person to be honoured with his own Google Doodle.The internet search giant has depicted the rambunctious cartoon seaman in typically feisty pose on what would have been Segar's 115th birthday.Popeye the Sailor – who famously attributed his strength "to the finish" to his consumption "of spinach" – first entered the public consciousness in January 1929, in Segar's newspaper comic strip Thimble Theatre.The cartoonist was born in Illinois, US, on 8 December 1894, and showed a talent for drawing at a young age.
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