Popeye the Sailor first appeared in a comic strip in 1929, and embodied a 20th century kind of muscular optimism. In I, Popeye artist Takeshi Murata has turned Popeye from a 2D character into a 3D one, and something has happened to life in the process, making it frail and bitter, and Popeye into a figure of loss and resignation, perhaps embodying a collective hangover, our attempts to get over the 20th century.

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• Sektion Section: Film Programme
• Programm Programme: The New Death 1