{"id":1542686,"date":"2022-07-07T09:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T13:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542686"},"modified":"2022-07-07T09:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T13:04:39","slug":"get-woke-go-broke-popeye-comic-strip-getting-woke-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/get-woke-go-broke-popeye-comic-strip-getting-woke-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Woke Go Broke: \u201cPopeye\u201d Comic Strip Getting Woke Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fget-woke-go-broke-popeye-comic-strip-getting-woke-makeover%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">After nearly a hundred years in existence, the <em>Popeye<\/em> comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover, with the strip\u2019s latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and \u201cmore characters who aren\u2019t heterosexual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cartoonist Randal K. Milholland described the Popeye character as being \u201cgender fluid,\u201d citing old episodes in which the plot required Popeye to dress in drag.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI [want] to bring in more characters who aren\u2019t heterosexual,\u201d\u00a0Milholland said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/entertainment\/arts-culture\/article\/Blow-me-down-San-Antonio-cartoonist-takes-over-17279502.php\">interview<\/a> with the <em>San Antonio Express-News<\/em>. \u201cI don\u2019t live in that purely straight white world, and I don\u2019t think a lot of other people do either.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ahoy! I&#8217;m happy to tell ye me Official Popeye &#038; Olive merchandise is now available on Amazon too! <\/p>\n<p>Shop now \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/huHayt4v1z\">https:\/\/t.co\/huHayt4v1z<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/popeye?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#popeye<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/popeyethesailorman?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#popeyethesailorman<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pride?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pride<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/amazon?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#amazon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/popeyestrong?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#popeyestrong<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4HynjvB1nN\">pic.twitter.com\/4HynjvB1nN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Popeye Official (@PopeyeTweetsk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopeyeTweetsk\/status\/1539684786066833408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In one of the strip\u2019s biggest changes, Olive Oyl\u2019s\u00a0sister-in-law Cylinda Oyl is now Afro-Latina. Cylinda has traditionally been portrayed as a white woman with dark, bobbed hair.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Milholland took issue with the way <em>Popeye<\/em> has recently used men dressing as woman for comic relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that wasn\u2019t always the case,\u201d he told the newspaper. \u201cIf you go by today\u2019s definition, Popeye was gender fluid.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CeWN7hrA63v\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the strip\u2019s early days, Popeye once met an orphaned girl who didn\u2019t have a mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Popeye dresses up as a woman and says, \u2018I\u2019m your mom now,\u2019\u201d Milholland said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not a joke; it\u2019s Popeye being the kind character he originally was. Someone who\u2019d do whatever he could for someone down on their luck, like an orphan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Popeye character was first seen in \u00a01929 in the <em>Thimble Theatre<\/em> comic strip. The comic is still owned by King Features Syndicate, a division of Hearst Communications.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at\u00a0<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a hundred years in existence, the Popeye comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover, with the strip\u2019s latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and \u201cmore characters who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1546963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1546963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}