Rutherford County, TN - Cartoon characters in the U.S. got their start in American newspapers in 1905 with a sequence of hand drawn illustrations that became known as the comic strip. By 1929, comical characters like Popeye earned their own magazine, which were called comic books. Over the year’s the Popeye character saw a few changes, but the storyline of the sailor battling a bully typically remained the same. Last year on Popeye’s 93rd birthday, he saw a makeover… Popeye t ...