My friend and colleague Jimmy Wallin recently started a brand new Popeye comic strip. It’s in Swedish, thus the name Karl-Alfred (Popeye). As December approached, Jimmy wanted to make a digital Popeye Christmas Calendar, so he talked some of us unsuspecting comic artist colleagues into making it for him. How could you say no to Jimmy Wallin? So, now the world gets one comic artist and one Popeye character a day until christmas. Isn’t that just terrific?

Today it’s my turn. I gave Poopdeck Pappy (as he was originally named) the digital treatment, something he wasn’t too happy about.

Even if you don’t read Swedish, you don’t want to miss the old black and white Fleischer cartoons from the 30s (in English!) posted at the blog. I can’t tell how much I love these! Today you can watch Popeye saving his dear ol’ pappy  from the land of the strange Goon creatures, in Goonland from 1938.