COMIC ARTIST

E. C. Segar

1894 - 1938

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Elzie Crisler Segar (; December 8, 1894 – October 13, 1938), 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. Charles M. Schulz said of Segar's work: "I think Popeye was a perfect comic strip, consistent in drawing and humor". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. C. Segar has received more than 725,522 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. E. C. Segar is the 63rd most popular comic artist (down from 58th in 2019), the 3,479th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,301st in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, E. C. Segar ranks 63 out of 226Before him are Marco Rota, Saul Steinberg, Romano Scarpa, Jerry Siegel, Benoît Sokal, and Art Spiegelman. After him are Takehiko Inoue, Joe Shuster, Jacques Tardi, Yoshito Usui, Vicar, and Robert Crumb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, E. C. Segar ranks 116Before him are Max Weinreich, David Butler, Henry Hazlitt, Eduard Wagner, Pavel Rybalko, and Riad Al Solh. After him are Âşık Veysel, Warren Weaver, Frans G. Bengtsson, Saken Seifullin, Varvara Stepanova, and Elvira Popescu. Among people deceased in 1938, E. C. Segar ranks 104Before him are Axel Ljung, Joseph Strauss, Kazimierz Twardowski, Boris Pilnyak, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, and Andrei Bubnov. After him are Egon Friedell, Prince Arthur of Connaught, Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Gustav Klutsis, Miguel Cabanellas, and William Wallace Campbell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, E. C. Segar ranks 3,479 out of 20,380Before him are Daniel D. Tompkins (1774), Gore Verbinski (1964), Brenda Vaccaro (1939), David O. Russell (1958), Jim Davis (1909), and James Samuel Coleman (1926). After him are Eddie Vedder (1964), Mary Tyler Moore (1936), Jonathan Groff (1985), Vinnie Vincent (1952), Bonnie Hunt (1961), and Besse Cooper (1896).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, E. C. Segar ranks 16Before him are Will Eisner (1917), Charles Addams (1912), Bill Finger (1914), Frank Miller (1957), Charles M. Schulz (1922), and Jerry Siegel (1914). After him are Robert Crumb (1943), Jim Davis (1945), Richard F. Outcault (1863), Al Taliaferro (1905), Lee Falk (1911), and Floyd Gottfredson (1905).