Popeye has an old junk bike he decorated himself. It’s going to take him on new adventures. “Why don’t you get a new bicycle, Popeye”, asks his Mom. “I like this one. It takes me to places I’ve never been. I make new friends.” Popeye’s ready for his ride. So, he packs his mailbag, hops on his magical bicycle, and heads out for the rest of the world. He meets interesting animals and talks to them about their wishes. He invites them to visit his home.

Popeye has an old junk bike he decorated himself. It's going to take him on new adventures. "Why don't you get a new bicycle, Popeye", asks his Mom. "I like this one. It takes me to places I've never been. I make new friends." Popeye's ready for his ride. So, he packs his mailbag, hops on his magical bicycle, and heads out for the rest of the world. He meets interesting animals and talks to them about their wishes. He invites them to visit his home.

The Spirit Flyer, a rusty old bicycle found in the city dump, surprises its new owner, John Kramar, when it magically lives up to its name, introducing John to an unknown world and changing his life for good.

It's a rare comic character who can make audiences laugh for well over half a century--but then again, it's a pretty rare cartoon hero who can boast of forearms thicker than his waist, who can down a can of spinach in a single gulp, or who generally faces the world with one eye squinted completely shut. When E.C. Segar's gruff but lovable sailor man first tooted his pipe to the public on January 7, 1929, it was not in the animated cartoon format for which he is best known today (and which would become the longest running series in film history). Instead it was on the comics page of the New York Journal, as Segar's Thimble Theatre strip. Over the decades to come, Popeye was to appear on radio, television, stage, and even in a live-action feature film. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated history is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of the highly acclaimed 1994 work. Animated series and films are examined, noting the different directions each studio took and the changing character designs of the Popeye family. Popeye in other media--comics, books, radio, and a stage play--is thoroughly covered, as are Robert Altman's 1980 live-action film, and Popeye memorabilia.

From comic strip hero to motion picture star, here is the history of Popeye, one of the best-loved cartoon characters. Animated series and films are examined, noting the different directions each studio took and the changing character designs of the Popeye family. Popeye in other media--comics, books, radio, and even a stage play--is thoroughly covered, as are Robert Altman's 1980 live-action film, and Popeye memorabilia.

A lyrical exploration of the dysphoria of our current social reality, A Drunken Man on a Bicycle focuses on the intersection between personal and communal experience as authoritarian national leadership overwhelms the individual consciousness. These poems capture the atmosphere of the absurd and the horrific, the preposterous and the historic, and dramatize how our interior life shifts between cartoon and film, dream and tragedy, anxiety and the actual policies enacted in the shared world. They give voice to the paradoxical unity of the mad and the elegiac and enact our collective entry into the banality of a drunk on a bicycle as he pursues understanding at this perilous moment in the history of civilization.