E. C. Segar
Born
December 8, 1894
Died
October 13, 1938 (43 years old)
Known For
Writing
Place of Birth
Santa Monica, California
Elzie Crisler Segar, known by the pen name E. C. Segar, was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Popeye, a pop culture character who first appeared in 1929 in Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre.