I dunno, I don’t think Cylinda looked much like Popeye.
She looks like she wandered in from another comic strip.
Was there a Minnerole Oyl? Duke of Oyl?
When I look at comics from a century or so ago (usually while browsing old newspapers online) the majority of the time I’m struck by how stiff and clumsy and stilted and most of all not very funny the writing is. This one has at least a mildly funny punchline, but damn was it painful to get there.
I strongly disagree with you on this one. I thought it held up very well. I found it delightful. To each his own, I guess.
Don’t think so, but there’s a Deezil (from one of the cartoon series) - Castor’s daughter.
There’s also cousin Sutra, but I don’t actually get the pun in her name (assuming they hadn’t given up on giving the Oyls pun names by the time she showed up).
(I know both of these from Randy Milholland’s recent brief run on Popeye’s Cartoon Club. … Which, annoyingly, doesn’t let you view the archives back to the beginning of the run unless you have a premium Comics Kingdom account. Darn you, King Syndicates!)
Buster Brown is especially bad for the clumsy writing, but there is something to say for a panel in the third comic down on this page, where Buster’s actions have led to a decapitated goose, other apparently dead farm animals, and two pigs embracing each other in grief.
Maybe Sutra was her middle name, first name Karma.
It’s a reference to Kama Sutra Oil, which is a sexual lubricant/massage oil.
Sutra Oyl was created by Bobby London when he did the comic strip back in the eighties.
Damn, those “RESOLVED” panels in those Buster Brown comics read like they should be on the labels of Dr Bronner’s Soap.
FWIW, the complete run of Segar’s Popeye is available in 6 gorgeous hard-covered volumes. Well worth owning.
You have to wonder whether Segar was trying to get in some risque humor by having the biscuits Olive stuffed down her blouse make her look bizarrely over-endowed, and Castor casually asking about the “two hard lumps” on his wife’s butt.
And Sutra Oyl was the exact opposite of Olive in almost every particular, except for both having large feet.
I guess no one has anything more definitive to add to Nemo’s suggestion as to the origin of the expression in the subject line?