E. C. Segar
Known For: Writing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: December 8, 1894
Day of Death: October 13, 1938 (44 years old)
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.
