Modern Day Popeye
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
It would seem that these days spinach alone wouldn’t cut it anymore for Popeye. According to commercial artist Dennis Zilber, that is.
(via Abduzeedo)
The Ephemerist
Thriving in the margins since 2002…
Archive for the 'Popeye' Tag
Books, not spinach
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Popeye keeps popping up in advertisments across the world. Ads of the World‘s latest example is this poster, for the Asociación Salvadoreña de Agencias de Publicidad in El Salvador. It would seem that, in order to become strong, you’d better feed your head. Concept and illustration by Estivens Romero
Popeye by Raphael
Monday, September 14th, 2009
French publisher Les Editions Charrette is planning an artbook dedicated to Popeye. Judging from this sketch by RaphaelB, it’s going to be a beauty.
Clothes make the Comic Character
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
As proven by this campaign by Euro RSCG in Puerto Rico, clothes do make the man, also in comics. Artwork by Israel García and Pablo Silva.
Strong as Popeye
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
It’s been a while since I last saw Popeye the Sailor as metaphor for strength and sturdiness, but here he is again. This ad for the Iveco EcoDaily was created by Leo Burnett of Turin, Italy.
(from Ads of The World, which has more examples)
Ombudsmen
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
I’m afraid we may have been getting a bit of Watchmen overload lately (at least it didn’t make me look differently at the original comic, the way the Dark Knight marketing bonanza did), but you gotta love PvP for bringing Popeye and Peanuts and Garfield in the mix. Now if only Scott had somehow included Watterson in the equation, this strip would make more sense than is good for us.
(PvP © 2009 Scott R. Kurtz)
Male Member Alert !
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
In 2004 the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland ran a quite humorous article on male nudity as the last taboo in Hollywood movies. Dutch illustrator Typex made this illo for the article.
I was in a bit of a hurry when I tore this out of the magazine, and as a result the image’s damaged a litte. Also, even though we’re all adults here, I didn’t want to run the risk to get into trouble. So I censured the scaled down picture above a bit. You’re free to click through to see the original, but you do so on your own responsibility !
