. In his introduction to Popeye: "I Yam What I Yam" (Fantagraphics, $29.95), Bill Blackbeard compares E.C. Segar -- the creator of the one-eyed, spinach-chomping sailor with the bowling-pin forearms -- to Charles Dickens. Another example of pop-culture hyperinflation? Not necessarily. Just......... -
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. In his introduction to Popeye: "I Yam What I Yam" (Fantagraphics, $29.95), Bill Blackbeard compares E.C. Segar -- the creator of the one-eyed, spinach-chomping sailor with the bowling-pin forearms -- to Charles Dickens. Another example of pop-culture hyperinflation? Not necessarily. Just.........-
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