Popeye Sketches

I heard today that a 3d Popeye flick is in development. As a huge Popeye fan, I'll be one of the first guys in line.

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!

Watch out!

I'd like to send a big thank you to Marc J. Fletcher over at the Den of Geek website for naming us as one of the Ten Comicbook Creators to Watch Out For! (Or would that be two of the creators? No, I guess we'd count as .5 creators to watch out for each.)
Anyways, Thanks Marc and the Den of Geeks! We wear our geek badges with honor.