Any Popeye gurus out there? Remember Popeye cartoons?
My delimma is that I don't which rival was first. In some cartoons Popeye's biggest rival was Bluto. In others it was Brutus. I remember Brutus as being more "burly" than Bluto. Which one was the first rival? Bluto or Brutus? When did it change and why?
Wow… this takes me WAY back when I was a kid.
I liked those old Max Fleischer cartoons.
Those were classics.
Bluto! They changed to get Pop-Eye a more fearsome adversary
Bluto was the one who ate cheeseburger after cheeseburger!!!LOL!!! Brutus was the big bully!!
Wimpy was the burger eater–"I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." And remember the one that started out in real life with big guys bullying a little kid, and Popeye jumps out of a comic book and shows the kid how in the cartoons it was spinach that made him strong, and the kid eats spinach and beats up the bullies?? Oh, and the really old Popeyes used "The Sailor’s Hornpipe" for a theme song…oh, dear, now you’ve really gotten me started…thanks for the trip down memory lane!!!
Bluto, the fat guy, was first…he was in the old black&white cartoons. Brutus, the barrel chested, burly guy, came later on in another-made for TV- cartoon series.
The best reference is the reprints of the old Popeye newspaper strips, "Thible Theatre"; it was called. There’s a good book, All in Color For a Dime that has a sizable secton on Popeye, and it discusses his origin, etc. Toonopedia also has a good article on Popeye.
To answer your question, Bluto kind of morphed into Brutus over time, as they were adapting the characters from the newspaper strips (and films) to tv. And they did draw Bluto as kind of overly-large.
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Bluto and Brutus are the same person. Personally, I don’t know why they gave Eddie Segar’s character a different name.
of course is bluto classic rival to popeye,