Olive Realises She Fancies Popeye Popeye My screenprints and greetings cards

My screenprints and greetings cards are based on drawings by the artist who invented Popeye and Olive Oyl

it was only when I started screenprinting the character that I realised that his name refers to the fact that he only has a single eye

Dogmatix and Getafix are a band of Gauls holding out against the Roman invasion

it was that

He’s also come to be associated with the colour red – the colour of the stripe on his football jersey

Olive Realises She Fancies Popeye Popeye My screenprints and greetings cardsHandmade screen print on cotton paper. Signed and numbered out of 200 in pencil by the printer, John Patrick Reynolds. Standard size: 26cm x 19cm Medium size: 48cm x 38cm Large size: 76cm x 56cm Popeye and Olive Oyl are an archetypal couple they are obviously attracted to each other, but they often fall out and row, often bitterly. Although the characters have been around for nearly 100 years, the way they behave seems quite modern. Heres a great