It also got me thinking about a Popeye comic pitch that I worked on a while ago. It was a coming of age adventure story about a 10 year old Swee' Pea and Popeye going on a treasure hunt. Swee' Pea is having a hard time at school because of his funny name and his failure to live up to his dad's impossible tough guy legacy, so Popeye reasons a nice ocean voyage would be just the thing for him. Naturally, the treasure hunt is a wild goose chase set up by the sea hag for her own nefarious purposes. Along the way, Swee' Pea learns some valuable life lessons about how true toughness comes not from a can of spinach, but from strength of character.
Here's some of the sketches I did for this idea. Enjoy!
