segar

¹ American  

[si-gahr] / sɪˈgɑr /

Or seegar

noun

1. cigar.

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Segar ² American  

[see-gahr] / ˈsi gɑr /

noun

1. Elzie (Crisler) 1894–1938, U.S. comic-strip artist: creator of “Popeye.”

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Example Sentences

Popeye is fallible but has long lived by his own moral code — a consistent trait that dates back to Segar’s creation.

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One aspect of Segar’s run that Milholland cherishes is that Popeye would say: I will protect any child I meet.

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A decade after Segar created his “Thimble Theater” comic, Popeye made his supporting-role debut in that strip in 1929 — four years before he first appeared in animated form, in the Fleischer Studios’ popular “Popeye the Sailor.”

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“Popeye is much more than a goofy comic character to me,” Segar is quoted as saying in the book “Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation.”

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Segar, would share fan art in his strip.

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