Popeye's anti-animal illustrations typical of laughter era and paved way for mass slaughter of animal brutality food business

Arnold Buckley
   Popeye was a brutal cartoon in a brutal era where punching man and beast was considered entertainment. Popeye is a classic comic and cartoon strip containing a multiplicity of brutality against animals and often the portrayal of animal abuse being seen as humor is what contributed to this agribusiness industry we have today. This is an industry that inhumanely puts animals in their last days in caged settings where brutality of life is encouraged and the thoughts of the animal is regarded in the name of mass profit. This strip was a predecessor to how animals would even further be treated in society and the drive t-for total automation of slaughtering so people such as the character Wimpy could have his daily hamburger.  This comic strip was written by Elzie Segar' and is still regarded as one of the most recognizable characters in all of print but what many don't recognize is the amount of violence that was directed towards our four-legged friends whether it was Sharks, Bulls, or Bears that Popeye routinely beat in the face or another character displayed in this thimble theatre. Horses in particular seemed to really get it in this strip. Popeye is the pinnacle of thirties violence in both print and the real world in a world that was increasingly being influenced through art and film. Popeye is in looking back is neither humorous or ever clever and interesting. This is perhaps one of the worse comic strips ever to be released with story lines both bananas and dull that usually end in a punch-line that well is in most cases a punch-line. this comic strip offers nothing and is complete nonsense and was likely developed in an early version of violence promotion when movies, TV, and video games was not widely available to promote this concept for society. Popeye represents the worse of humanity in comic form and is a relic of a by-gone era of fisticuffs and slapstick puncharama was somehow artistic entertainment one can find in the daily funnies of the newspapers across America and comic crap like this is best forgotten instead of celebrated.