Terry Austin & Popeye

[CheezyWhiz]

Terry Austin was co-artist on a short story in Cerebus Jam called Squinteye the Sailor where Cerebus meets a cranky old Popeye look-alike.

 

I was looking into Terry Austin and found this on WIkipedia:

Popeye: He is a notorious fan of Popeye and often draws the character in crowd scenes in the comics on which he works.

 

Anyone know of books where these Popeye cameos can be found? ..or even better, have any scans you can post?

[shiverbones]

I do remember seeing one In either the Art Adams New Mutants Special, or the X-men annual #9 that came out at the same time.

[robert frey]

the alice cooper issue of marvel premiere!

[HighVoltage]

Terry is one helluva nice guy - and he loves Popeye. When I met him at a comic shop signing in around 1990, he drew a Popeye sketch for me. Come to think of it he kinda looks a bit like Popeye!

[catrick339]

Terry put Popeye in the background of an Uncanny X-Men crowd scene back in the day. There was also a Pierson's Puppeteer (See Ringworld by Larry Niven) in the same crowd.

 

It was in the run circa issue 130 when the X-Men were offworld with Lilandra and the Imperial (Legion of Superheroes) Guard, but I haven't owned a set of X-Men in years, can't tell you for sure which issue.

 

Grab your stacks, look for the crowd scenes!

[iggy]

Anyone know of books where these Popeye cameos can be found? ..or even better, have any scans you can post?

 

(thumbs u

 

[CheezyWhiz]

Awesome, iggy! Are these all con sketches?

[iggy]

no, they are from this book:

 

[CheezyWhiz]

I found one Austin Popeye cameo in X-Men #125 pg 16. Can you spot it?

 

[Bronty]

just left of the orange monster's hand! thanks for posting that