Tea and Spinach! Politics of Popeye, King Features Comics Strips to Memes

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The comic strips you grew up with, and your great-grandma grew up with, are probably from King Features Syndicate: a comics syndicate over 100 years old! Tea Fougner is the Editorial Director for Comics at King Features Syndicate and joins us to talk about comics strips past and present. As Tea says, "Comics is a format, not a genre." Find out: Which vintage adventure strips will modern readers enjoy?Popeye: OriginsThe kweerness of Krazy KatThe 1970s splenders of Apartment 3GThe Lockhorns are someone's hip memePopeye on socialism and economic policy"Mandrake the Magician was Doctor Strange before Doctor Strange"How to read King Features comics. Literally.Popeye is compassionate Tea tweets as https://twitter.com/teaberryblue.

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