Segar, and I’d had some contact with editor Craig Yoe previously and he knew I was into old-time newspaper strips. I think I was on their radar for this book for a couple of reasons: I was working on Snarked at the time and had said in a number of interviews that it was partly a love letter to Carl Barks and E.
Roger Langridge: I was approached by IDW. GC4K: Can you tell us a little about how you came to be writing Popeye? Did you pitch for it, or did IDW seek you out? Segar’s iconic cartoon sailor in the 21st century. We took the occasion to talk to the prolific cartoonist about writing new adventures for E.C. The first trade paperback collection of the Langridge-written Popeye comic, which ought to bring the work to a well-deserved wider audience, was released just last Wednesday.
As popular as it was, though, it must not have been popular enough to continue indefinitely, as it too will be ceasing publication with its twelfth issue. Langridge started writing, and occasionally drawing, a new Popeye series for IDW last year it was launched as a four-issue miniseries but was popular enough to almost immediately graduate to ongoing monthly status. The series just wrapped up its twelfth and-for now-final issue.
His relationship with BOOM! outlasted their rights to the Muppets license, and he launched a comedy adventure series for the publisher starring his own versions of Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus and the Carpenter entitled Snarked. In the last few years Langridge began attracting a lot more attention from a lot of new fans for his work on the critically acclaimed Muppet Show comic for BOOM! Studios, which he wrote and usually drew, and his equally acclaimed Thor: The Mighty Avenger, a short-lived YA version of Marvel’s superhero that he scripted for then up-and-coming artist Chris Samnee. Langridge has been making comics since the late 1980s, mixing work on his own creations like Fred the Clown with more commercial work on characters as various as Judd Dredd, Dr. Given Popeye’s penchant for mumbling and mangling pronunciations, one almost never knows what’s going to come out of the sailor’s misshapen mouth-unless the one in question is cartoonist Roger Langridge, who has been putting words into Popeye’s mouth as the writer of IDW’s new Popeye comic book series.
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