Romeo gets angry and flies away ... Popeye is incredulous and finds evidence that Brutus is a fake. Olive Oyl buys a new lamp at an auction sale, little guessing that it's the famous Aladdin's ...

Today, we look at whether a forgotten comedy superstar of the silent movie era inspired the creation of Olive Oyl. Something that comes up a lot in the world of comic history discussions is the ...

Some nasty bullies even gave her the nickname Olive Oyl after cartoon character Popeye’s gangly girlfriend. “I wasn’t at ease with myself because I was very skinny and quite tall for my age ...

Among the observations to be gleaned from a new volume edited by Peter Maresca, “Thimble Theater and the Pre-Popeye Comics of E.C. Segar,” is that Olive Oyl was not always a paragon of gangly ...

Olive Oyl, the original Twiggy, displayed all the litheness of a limp licorice whip. Her pencil-thin shape and loping gait inspired the clamorous ardor of every available man in her world.

Mae Questel, a rubber-voiced veteran of stage, screen and vaudeville who played Woody Allen’s mother in the film “New York Stories” and was the cartoon voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl ...