E. C. Segar

Born 1894-12-08 · Santa Monica, California

Died 1938-10-13

Elzie Crisler Segar, known by the pen name E. C. Segar, was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Popeye, a pop culture character who first appeared in 1929 in Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre.