Why cartoons Popeye never wins against brutus?
Brutus, or Bluto, was designed, as it were, as a recurring villain. He was based (loosely) on a henchman of the comic strip’s recurring villain, the Sea Hag. I think that a history of the strip would help explain this: it wasn — and is — called Thimble Theater. It was created by a man named Elzie Crisler Segar (who often signed his name with a sketch of a cigar), in the early twenties. It starred the trio of Ham Gravy and the brother and sister Castor and Olive Oyl. If it had any central figure it was Castor, a diminutive confidence man (or grifter — look it up) who enlisted the other two — boyfriend and girlfriend — in his schemes. In those days it wasn’t so much that which upset the editors, it was that Segar kept trying to sneak continuities into this. The editors kept demanding that each strip — which was usually about twice as big and contained twice as much information as today’s comics — be a complete story. Some cartoonists, like George McManus (Bringing Up Father) had s
