Alabama’s little-known connection to a famed comic strip character

Alabama’s little-known connection to a famed comic strip character

If not for a new folklife marker in Gadsden, Alabamians may have forgotten our state’s connection to the Popeye comic strip. Not only was Popeye written by Alabamian Tom Sims (1896-1972) for two decades, but he based the hero’s antics during that time on sailing on the Coosa River.