E. C. Segar
Writing
December 8, 1894
Died at age 43
October 13, 1938
Date of Death
Santa Monica, California
Biography
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.