“The best of the black and white Popeyes are full of digressions, and are as much about the funky world that Popeye lives in as they are about Popeye. In those cartoons, Popeye was alternately violent and sentimental and so was the world he lived in. The wonderful, built in contradictions made it difficult to make slick and logical stories, so the Fleischer studio didn’t even try. They aimed for a logic of the heart rather than a logic of the mind.” – cartoonist Eddie Fitzgerald